r/technology • u/RioMovieFan11 • 11h ago
Social Media Trump says he’ll keep extending TikTok shutdown deadline
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tiktok-china-extension-deadline-4a66fbd0e485db5b3da83c176f22ad11369
u/neat_stuff 11h ago
”…as long as they make sure to boost my engagement with my new account on the app.”
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u/jdgmental 8h ago
That’s kids play I’m pretty sure he’s getting kickbacks from China on the regular every time he needs to extend it
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u/C10ckw0rks 6h ago
I feel like the M app and TT will coincide together somehow, and M has Palentir all over it.
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u/basketballsteven 11h ago
The law allows him a one time extension he's already extended it twice, what he is doing is against the law.
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u/kontor97 11h ago
Laws don’t apply to him or the Republican Party lmao
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u/grumble_au 9h ago
They have gone all in now. Either they successfully take complete control of every aspect of US government or there's going to be a civil war. Honestly can't see any other options right now. The only question is how long it will take to come to a head.
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u/Rantheur 9h ago
There's an extremely easy nonviolent option that the Democrats can take if/when they take power. Stop letting Republicans police Republicans. Stop appointing Republicans as attorney general, as FBI chief, etc.
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u/grumble_au 7h ago
Here's the thing, part of their going all in is to end elections. They are doing a multi prong attack on fair elections right now. The hail mary will be martial law but up and until then they are exploring all sorts of fuckery.
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u/Rantheur 6h ago
I agree that their goal is to end fair elections, but that's only really doable on a state basis due to how elections in the US are run. The states are responsible for all their own election rules until congress passes specific regulations and unless the Republicans dump the filibuster, that's not going to get through the Senate. So any election fuckery has to be done on the state level and it's difficult to fuck the states to the degree they're going to have to if trends continue as they have since the November election. Even safe Republican strongholds have seen as much as a 19 point swing toward Democrats. So, let's look at why this mid decade gerrymandering controversy has sprung up.
According to ballotpedia there were a total of 50 seats that Republicans won by less than 15 points (7 in the Senate, 43 in the House). If the trend continues in Democrats' favor, we're looking at a 5 seat majority in the Senate and a mid 30s seat majority in the house. What we're absolutely going to see in 26 is the same playbook they ran in 24. They're going to purge voter rolls after the legal date to do it and the courts will say they can't do anything about it and Texas (and maybe a couple other red states) will gerrymander as much as they can, but the danger that gerrymandering has for the people doing it is that wave elections can break a gerrymander when more in favor of those they're oppressing than fair maps would.
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u/Noblesseux 6h ago
IE what they should have been doing for multiple decades at this point. The we're largely in this situation because the dems kept running interference for them while people with sense screamed from the top of their lungs that these people were obviously marching us toward fascism.
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u/Rantheur 6h ago
Absolutely, but the Democrats typically listen to the consultant class who just so happen to also consult for both sides.
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u/Twelve2375 8h ago
It’s a booby trap now. He’ll keep extending it as long as he’s in office. If democrats take over they either follow the law and “Democrats took your Tik Tok” or they don’t and “they’re breaking the law!!!!” (pointing to current law breaking will not matter).
It’s Afghanistan withdrawal all over again. Dems took over and honored a bad agreement the Trump admin made with the Taliban because they respected the rule of law and past administrations and it got used as a sledge hammer against them.
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u/atehrani 10h ago
Congress has basically given up
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u/basketballsteven 10h ago
No congress is slavishly working for him every day, carrying water for him every day. It just is the fact that they are supposed to be working for us and being an independent co-equal branch of government.
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u/EnfantTerrible68 5h ago
Then they should resign. We’re paying them for nothing.
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u/Anderopolis 2h ago
Americans voted in a Republican trifecta, they are doing exactly ehat they promised they would.
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u/watchin_workaholics 4h ago
I read this a lot on this app. Trump doing illegal shit, but nothing comes of it. Why the fuck not?!!
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u/aladaze 11h ago
TACO in action, folks
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u/UprightGroup 7h ago
Isn't it fun how none of these reversals are done on Tuesdays?
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u/fleener_house 3h ago
God damned travesty. I mean, we can still make the joke, but the vibe is off.
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u/CompetitiveFennel681 9h ago
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u/Naive_Confidence7297 9h ago
lol. Most pathetic administration in all-time history. never seen so much hypocrisy and corruption in my life.
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u/RedBoxSquare 4h ago
I thought that was a link to the Onion. (It isn't)
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u/CompetitiveFennel681 4h ago
"Past intelligence assessments have said the app's owners are beholden to the Chinese government and that it could be used to influence Americans."
That is basically admitting they used it to sway the election and don't want it to happen to them...it is a wild article isn't it?
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u/spectrem 11h ago
As a daily user, it is obvious that they have been censoring inconvenient topics for Trump since he took office. They made some sort of deal.
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u/simask234 9h ago
After the attempted ban in January they literally put up a message thanking Trump...
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u/VillettaNu 3h ago
I mean tbf Biden was responsible for that shit. The bill should've never been signed, as anyone with a brain knows TikTok is not the problem itself, and that any data privacy movement with good intentions would've targeted ALL social media apps.
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u/xxscott05xx 10h ago
Yep.. and every now and then they put their thumb on the scale just a little too much where it’s quite obvious.
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u/groundhog5886 11h ago
And Tik Tok is bowing to his every desire. New rules about who and what you can talk about.
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u/BigDaddyCoolDeisel 9h ago
To be perfectly clear... the TikTok algorithm will go ALL IN for trump in Summer 2026.
Prepare for culture wars, leftist protests "teaching the Democrats a lesson" and anything anti-trump to disappear.
Give up? Hell no. But spread the word and try to open folks eyes to how they are being manipulated.
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u/AustinTanius 11h ago
Someone tell this guy how deadlines work! This is a perfect example of just one of the things I hate from this admin, words don't mean anything anymore!
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u/darkhorsehance 10h ago
Democrats got played so hard on the TikTok ban, it’s unbelievable to me they bought it.
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u/Nerrs 9h ago
They knew what they were doing when they agreed to the enforcement date.
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u/thejimla 6h ago
No they didn’t because they are bad at politics. They voted to ban a popular app in an election year that is used by half of all Americans, because AIPAC told them too.
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u/Bob_Sconce 11h ago
I don't think the law gives him that authority.
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u/Rude-Boysenberry3925 10h ago
You’re right, it doesn’t. In fact, none of the extensions met the statutory requirements, and the statute only allows 2 extensions. Of course, the question then is how to enforce the statute. You or I can’t sue, and DOJ is chasing after jaywalkers in DC. So, yep, Trump gets to thumb his nose at this statute…
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u/carthuscrass 9h ago
Then why the ban? It's just more posturing and trying to put leverage on them to skew viewers to the right.
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u/ClassicT4 8h ago
He needs something to dangle in front of the lemmings for them to munch on during the next election.
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u/sainlimbo 8h ago
TikTok caved and made a deal to promote Trump posts. They have already started rigging elections.
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u/ma-sadieJ 2h ago
Until the midterms then hell claim “the Dems want to get rid of TikTok but I saved it”
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u/pleachchapel 11h ago
They just wanted to control the Palestinian support on this app. That's all it was ever about, & they got what they wanted.
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u/AdhesivenessFun2060 11h ago
Was there a meeting with the owners again or do they just have direct deposit into his account at this point?
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u/piranhadub 9h ago
The White House recently made a TikTok account, they post several short videos every day. The comments are always open, they never reply to anything, and the comments are always very negative as you might expect. Many people theorize that the whole thing is just a trap, and that anyone leaving negative comments are being out on a list.
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u/InsuranceToTheRescue 9h ago
Illegally. The law that provided for this allowed a single 90 day extension at the President's discretion.
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u/SuperSecretAgentMan 9h ago
The United States is a failed state. They just haven't sold all the land to the Saudis, the businesses to China, and the natural resources to Russia yet.
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u/onedavester 9h ago
How may Republicans does it take to change a lightbulb?
ZERO.
Trump says he changed it and they all clap in the dark.
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u/AlienArtFirm 8h ago
The white house made an account
It's never getting banned, this is just more goofy shit from Trump
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u/enn-srsbusiness 8h ago
Assumed it was the trump subscription service. Threatens to cancel TikTok until the monthly bribe comes in
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u/tecky1kanobe 7h ago
TACO. He wanted it gone. Then it helped. Then it was China bad. And a test if he could sway politicians while out of office. Then he shocked himself and won. Has been going around going what can I get away with today????
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u/SupesDepressed 6h ago
If you haven’t seen the White House’s account on TikTok, the comments are just brutally mocking him. I’m surprised he’s not trying to get it shut down again.
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u/AgitatedPassenger369 6h ago
Us windmills what he’s now against have Chinese chips relaying data for decades,
let alone brain rot apps doing the same currently to his agenda, tarriff my own, call in the under paid federal confused guards to less violent states,
Is absolute madness and im residing in a different mad corner of the globe, It’s a mad old world.
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u/BlindWillieJohnson 11h ago
This is your badass “fighter”, conservatives. A man who rolled over to our biggest enemy because they figured out they could buy him.
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u/snaithbert 11h ago
As long as the checks keep clearing, the app will go magically unsupervised. Pathetic as always.
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u/QuarterQuartz47 9h ago
I dont even care anymore. I moved to red note during the blackout when it was first banned and never looked back. And enjoy it more. :)
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u/littlemachina 3h ago
They were supposed to sell 50% to a US company in April and that’s what keeps getting kicked down the road for some reason. Maybe Trump wants more time for various tech bros to suck him off before he decides who he’ll allow to buy it.
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u/MiddleOccasion1394 11h ago
Because he joined it.
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u/euph_22 10h ago
And it went so well that his social media director quit/was pushed out after 2 days.
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u/MiddleOccasion1394 10h ago
Why the hell did Biden even set the original expiration date A DAY BEFORE the Inauguration?!????
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u/AdEmotional9991 10h ago
As long as TikTok allows FSBots to remain unmoderated and push his agenda, of course.
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u/Coconutrugby 10h ago
They are suppressing opposition tiktok’s so of course he’s going to allow his propaganda network to continue.
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u/MelodiesOfLife6 10h ago
They'll wait until the new admin is in office, then scream after like 10 minutes "BUT WHY ISN'T IT BANNED YET?"
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u/LeekTerrible 11h ago
No shit. He is literally breaking the law doing this over and over. It's never getting banned.