Yeah I was thinking that too! Plus the "look how we made you look like the hero" aspect. Shady stuff all around.
> the “look how we made you look like the hero” aspect
They know exactly what they are doing. That message is going to be effective and the person it’s targeted at doesn’t understand that it can be spun any way the CCP wants to spin it. How does he not see how risky letting a foreign government run something like TikTok in the US?
Re:TikTok goes dark in the US
by addandsubtract on Sunday January 19, 2025 @11:47AM
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Decisions will be consistently made in favor of the highest bidder.
Yass has paid in tens of millions of dollars, he's going to call that in to get an unban.
I really don't know which way to bet on this though. The Trump presidency is going to be consistently unpredictable.