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Re:TikTok is back in the App Store by noirbot on Friday February 14, 2025 @12:47AM (#43045261)
It's somewhat different to not enforce a general law against a multitude of possible targets and enforcing a law literally imposed against a single target.

A lot of people don't get fined for jaywalking and it's not a big deal because it's understood that it's a lot of work to actually cite all of them everywhere, so the difference between the normal level of not enforcing everything and intentionally not enforcing isn't 0 vs 100.

This is passing a law that John Smith should go to jail and then deciding you don't actually want to send him to jail. Why did you bother passing the law if you didn't care. Trump literally started all this TikTok banning stuff and now is against it, but isn't actually repealing the law. Congress seems to have just given up too. It's fully lawless.

Re:TikTok is back in the App Store by jajko on Friday February 14, 2025 @01:28AM (#43045488)
He is a servant of chaos to use fantasy terminology (due to lifelong mental imbalances that were glaringly obvious way before he got power). Maybe chaotic neutral after all + and - will eventually be summarised, but for now, for most of the world he veers towards evil scale.

Maybe something good will come out of this like Europe finally waking up, even now in 2025 here on HN I got attacked for warmongering if I dare say that we should increase defense (literally in our case) budgets.

Elephant in the porcelaine shop will make a room for new products for sure but thats not the most important thing that happens.