r/technology • u/MrKillaMidnight • Jan 19 '25

Social Media 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/poop-machine Jan 19 '25

Total PR stunt. TikTok CEO is attending the inauguration, and the banner on the app says "Fortunately President Trump will work with us on a solution".

All of this was done to boost Trump's popularity among young Americans.

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u/h4p3r50n1c Jan 19 '25

But Biden signed it though. And majority of democrats voted for it. It’s a whole government fuck up.

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u/IllusiveProgrammer Jan 19 '25

He signed it and everyone voted for it because it was stuck in a humanitarian relief bill.

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u/teethgrindingaches Jan 19 '25

If Biden was indifferent about Tiktok, he could have directed DoJ to not argue the lawsuit in court. He did not.

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u/Nascent1 Jan 19 '25

Despite what we're about to see for the next four years, the president isn't supposed to exert control over DOJ like that.

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u/ExcuseMotor6756 Jan 19 '25

If Biden doesn’t but republicans always do it, we’re just shooting ourselves in the foot. Kinda the reason roe v wade disappeared too

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u/RezzInfernal Jan 19 '25

no. this line of thinking is literally so dangerous. we need to hold ourselves to moral and ethical standards or we have nothing. this is how tyranny starts.

this is not why roe v wade disappeared. that is entirely the fault of republicans, mostly the justices and mitch mcconnell.

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u/Useful_Document_4120 Jan 19 '25

You’re gonna be the most moral and ethical person in New Gilead. Good for you.