Really at this point I am just impressed by how hard they are fighting against both bread and circuses
The Circus is anti-semetic because the gladiators called for a ceasefire.
I think they know they can steal bread as much as they want until people get angry. People will just elect another person expecting them to fix it or anything
I mean Argentinians electing Milei speaks basically everything about that system, and US is even worse because it is the source and keeper of it globally.
Isn’t it tiresome for the people in power to be in conflict with like 4 billion people globally at all hours of the day?
No, because they aren’t the ones footing the expenses
No, because they are obviously smarter and betterer at running things than us poors or else they wouldn’t be so very rich.
Waiting for the spike in searches for VPN to dwarf all the state porn ban ones.
I feel like they’ve got a strong constitutional case. One BBC article I read said that 60% of their company ownership is by global hedge funds so they just plainly aren’t a Chinese company. Singling them out for having dissident information through an act of congress is precisely what the 1st Amendment is supposed to protect against. With the sale supposed to happen in November at the earliest, the red scare will either fade by then or become a much larger issue they can capitalise on.
Don’t US courts normally roll over whenever the regime says “but muh national security!”?
Alienate a literal entire generation from voting for you lol, lmao.
This is what I am being told by every lib on the Discord servers I am in.
EDIT: They like to repeat the gotcha of when it takes place like its some sort of master move.
Ban discord
Alienating one of the the only demographics that overwhelmingly votes liberal seems wise
If Trump wins the election I’d bet my left toe that he drops the ban. It’s literally free political points in the young demographic, which keeps the GOP off his back.
This might be sincere, but as someone who worked in M&A in a past life, it’s pretty standard to say “I’m not interested in selling” to bluff the price up a bit.
My understanding is that the algorithm at the core of TikTok cannot be ecported from China without the approval of Chinese regulators, and it seems pretty likely that they’ll not approve a sale at gunpoint.
It also makes sense to me that they’d rather just amputate their US operations to preserve their IP and prevent an American competitor from fighting over their market share everywhere else.
I might be wrong but I think their data centers are in the US and there’s not really that complicated of an algorithm, just a lot of raw data on what each user likes/watches
Yeah, I don’t think the algorithms are the valuable part of social media sites. It’s the active users that make up the network effects. Meta has likely already figured out the algorithms already, Instagram reels is struggling because creators go where the viewers are and viewers spend the most time on the platform that has their favorite creators.
They did the meme.
They are just doing it wrong, it should be:
Give us your company
