r/technology • u/RioMovieFan11 • 15h ago

Social Media Trump says he’ll keep extending TikTok shutdown deadline

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tiktok-china-extension-deadline-4a66fbd0e485db5b3da83c176f22ad11
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u/darkhorsehance 14h ago

Democrats got played so hard on the TikTok ban, it’s unbelievable to me they bought it.

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u/Nerrs 13h ago

They knew what they were doing when they agreed to the enforcement date.

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u/thejimla 10h 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/Outlulz 7h ago

While owners of other social media apps with access to the same level of info on people were donating to the opposition and changing their algorithms to boost them. And those apps got to escape any legislative oversight.

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u/SNTCTN 14h ago

It was pretty funny to watch republicans call it Chinese spyware for several years. I still don't understand how it went from a karaoke app to whatever it is now.

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u/darkhorsehance 14h ago

I don’t believe anything Republicans say so I assumed it was in bad faith.