The sequence of events as far as I can recall:

  • Trump promised to ban TikTok
  • TikTok was slated to be “banned” in the twilight of Biden’s term
  • Trump says he’d give it 90 days to make a decision
  • Biden decides not to ban it, handing it off to Trump
  • TikTok goes dark
  • It returns, but if you search for something anti-Trump in the United States, you can’t find it
  • Using a VPN will give you that content
  • Various news outlets are now calling it Trump’s “Propaganda Arm”

What the fuck is going on? From a political or technological standpoint.

  • drascus@sh.itjust.works
    243·
    8 hours ago

    Maybe you didn’t get the memo all of big tech has decided to shill for trump. google, facebook, tiktok, amazon, X, they all met with trump and kissed the ring and decided to do what they do in other dictatorship countries like China which is censor anything the administration doesn’t like to get concessions from that administration. Trump has all these companies by the balls.

    • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      3 hours ago

      Trump has all these companies by the balls.

      Which happened because they unzipped their pants and placed their scrotums in Trump’s tiny hands.

      • drascus@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        42 minutes ago

        well in some cases they were on the verge of being regulated or in the case of Google being threatened to be broken up. So a lot of this seems like self preservation which is just sad.