The sequence of events as far as I can recall:

  • Trump promised to ban TikTok
  • TikTok was slated to be “banned” in the twilight of Biden’s term
  • Trump says he’d give it 90 days to make a decision
  • Biden decides not to ban it, handing it off to Trump
  • TikTok goes dark
  • It returns, but if you search for something anti-Trump in the United States, you can’t find it
  • Using a VPN will give you that content
  • Various news outlets are now calling it Trump’s “Propaganda Arm”

What the fuck is going on? From a political or technological standpoint.

    • @[email protected]
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      94 hours ago

      Trump has all these companies by the balls.

      Which happened because they unzipped their pants and placed their scrotums in Trump’s tiny hands.

      • @[email protected]
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        well in some cases they were on the verge of being regulated or in the case of Google being threatened to be broken up. So a lot of this seems like self preservation which is just sad.

    • Dessalines
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      41 hour ago

      US does US things.

      Inevitable commenter: This is just like in China!