r/neoliberal • u/Late_Champion529 Milton Friedman • Jan 19 '25

News (US) TikTok is down in the US

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/18/24346961/tiktok-shut-down-banned-in-the-us
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u/that0neGuy22 Resistance Lib Jan 19 '25

Biden isn’t even enforcing the ban this is Bytedance making Trump look like the hero to feed us more algorithm poison.

This is playing dead and idiots will believe it

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u/donkdonkdo Jan 19 '25

Biden literally signed the bill to ban TikTok, Biden is complaining that technically TikTok doesn’t have to go dark until Monday.

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u/Uncle_johns_roadie NATO Jan 19 '25

Biden signed the ban as it was included in the long overdue Ukraine aid bill.  The republicans poison pilled the fuck out of this.

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u/donkdonkdo Jan 19 '25

He said he would ban TikTok if the bill came to his desk LONG before it was packaged with anything.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '25

Biden could have done a 90 days extension, which Trump is going to do Monday, and chose not to.

Tik-tok and Apple may have had massive legal liabilities if Tik-Tok stayed open today. An empty promise, when there’s a law that says the opposite, isn’t good enough to keep an app open.

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u/kanagi Jan 19 '25

At no point was Biden ever against the ban lol. He can whine all he want now that the politics are blowing back at him but he never pushed against the ban and he signed it.