The stick part of the carrot and stick.
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They must not have reached the expected bribe level.
Or meta paid even more to make it go away
The deal was switched to a subscription based model.
Bidding war. Zuckerberg paid more.
Your move China.
Check bounced? Nah he got the check and it cleared and the world's tiniest gear spun in his head and he thought "what if 2 checks?!?!!?".
Man, I really hope he does the double-flipflop on this and bans it again. Because Tiktok pulled the stunt this weekend to kiss his ass, blocking the app preemptively for the USA and crediting Trump with "saving" it with the popup message. This would be most disruptive to the propaganda pushers on both sides of the globe, and piss off the most people against them.
it amuses me that people expect anything else from his presidency. it will be a "highest bidder wins" war.
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Imagine having your entire business plans hanging on the whims of this orange dickhead.
I suspect it's a share price influencing game with some of his pals.
"Donald Trump says dumb fucking thing after other dumb fucking contradictory thing"
The Onion should just print this headline every day for the next 4 years.
Nah, that's too realistic for The Onion. It needs to be something like, 'Pandemonium Ensues After Trump Utters First Coherent Sentence.'
And this strategy works for him just fine. People who like him will believe the thing they want to hear and some of the people who would have opposed him will be confused and delay action because they think maybe it's just going to work out and they should focus elsewhere.
This is leverage, nothing more. He has every intention of saving it. He's just going to make sure that he gets his cut and assurances that any anti-Trump videos be scrubbed and any searches return no results. And he wants to make sure they continue to do what he wants, when he wants, and the way he wants by literally hanging a potential ban over their heads that he can sign into effect by EO at the stroke of his favorite sharpie.
It is literally a Mafia protection racket on steroids.
I disagree. Trump and Musk own competitors to TokTok.
They are not going to hurt themselves in order to help a Chinese competitor.
Also, they are now in the ones in charge AND the Chinese government is actually using TikTok to spy on THEM.
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Did the check not clear?
Meta dropped a bigger check maybe.
Elno reminded him he owns both X and Trump.
Probably did. Could easily be a grifter move to dupe them into writing another check. Suckers.
Guess they didn't donate enough to his inauguration fund.
How does this lower the cost of my eggs?
You missunderstood. This ends the war in Ukraine
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That was a strange video to listen to. He wants the US to own half... Like nationalizing the platform?
He wants his cut, like the mafia
To "wet his beak"
I don't think he understands the difference between a government and a corporation. Like, he imagines the US is just his now. Just a big hotel, he can buy and sell bits of it to make money. Buy Greenland and Tiktok, sell Puerto Rico and the USS George Bush. Add a cover charge for Canada and Mexico.
To be fair, at this point there is barely any difference.
Obviously not like that, but wants it privately owned by his "American" cronies... like Elon
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He logged in and instead of seeing people praising him, he saw people continue to mock him and call him a dumb, fascist, piece of shit.
I'm getting whiplash from all the backtracking and it's only day two.
A platform that probably helped him a lot becoming the president. How ironic.
I was sticking with rednote anyway.
spoiler
I was sticking to not joining social media owned by people who want to make profit with my info...
Even if this were psy-ops... this is how you write psy-ops, goddamn
Are we the psy-op going to chinese social media and humanizing Americans or are they the psy-op by acting human when the Americans show up?
If it's the first, where's my check? If it's the second, congrats to my chinese spy on landing the easiest job in the world.
Did tiktok not offer to kiss his ass or pay him tribute like all the other companies?
i think zuckerberg kissed his ass harder and more affectionately than tiktok did
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I think it's a threat to ensure that TikTok does what he says. Lots of reports (that I as an Australian can't verify before it works for me) of searches for Trump incriminating videos are returning no results since it came back. It feels like there were conditions on not banning TikTok.
He's talking big so that Tiktok sells their US operations to Elon. Then he gets to take credit as a deal maker.
let me guess? Zuckerberg phoned him up and reminded him of all that lovely lobby money that had been shared around!
What pisses me off the most is that he blatantly places no consideration about the security implications of this decision. It is just about making a deal for his tech bros.
He doesn’t give a flying fuck about the country. He’d burn it all down if it could turn a profit for him.
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