It would definitely empower Facebook, Google/YouTube, and Twitter/X. They are clearly winners in this decision. I don’t use tiktok but I don’t think it should be removed from the app store the same way Huawei was banned in America. With Huawei I can see why ISP’s aren’t allowed to use their products since it’s public infrastructure, but as a consumer you should maybe have the choice to buy their phones. If you want to be dumb enough to let another government organization spy on you, that’s your own fault.
The Trump administration fighting against tiktok was one of the few things I agreed with when it was a thing. I guess this flip implies it was just a shakedown.
That said, I can’t disagree with this headline either. Though if he’s saying that to say “don’t ban tiktok”, I’d disagree there. IMO there needs to be some careful thought about how social media should be regulated and if it’s something that should even be in corporate hands.
If TikTok is a threat because it steals American's data, so is Facebook. We could solve both problems with comprehensive data privacy laws that cover foreign and domestic data harvesters.
But who am I kidding, our government doesn't care about our privacy, they're just scared of China, and even if they did they can't work together to get a decent privacy bill.
“Without TikTok, you can make Facebook bigger, and I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people,” Trump, who was formerly U.S. president between 2017 and 2021, said in a CNBC TV interview on Monday.
I am disappointed that they go through the whole article, and never point out that Trump runs his own social media platform, and that might give him a conflict of interest when speaking about Social Media companies. Is Facebook really an enemy of the people, or is it just a competitor of Truth Social?
am disappointed that they go through the whole article, and never point out that Trump runs his own social media platform, and that might give him a conflict of interest when speaking about Social Media companies
Agreed.
Moreover, any corporate run, non open-source, centralized social media platform is an enemy of the people.
This includes TikTok, Twitter, all of Meta, Truth Social, Reddit, Next-door, and so on.
Yeah Trump is technically correct here, but didn’t arrive at his correctness by means of truth. Rather, he arrived by means of self serving agenda as always.
Facebook is garbage and so are all the other privatized, data harvesting, privacy violating social media platforms.
Facebook. Who basically won his last election with disinformation campaigns… Why would anyone ally themselves with Trump, you will never, ever get his loyalty.
It should also be stated that the site originally was running Mastodon with a new skin to try and hide it. They have since acknowledged it and posted the source code required on the Legal page apparently (according to Wikipedia).
More context: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allowed Donald Trump’s media and technology company to merge with a blank-check acquisition vehicle in a deal that currently values the parent of his social media app Truth Social at as much as $10 billion. reuters.com/…/digital-world-shares-surge-us-regul…
Even a broken (smashed to bits and run through a shredder) clock is right twice a day, it seems.
However, transparent translation: man with financial stake in a social media company considers competing social media company to be “enemy”; more at 11.
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