Biden’s TikTok Flip-Flop: President Rushes To Undo Ban He Championed As Backlash Grows

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• nesc@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  🤡

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  • theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nothing else to say.

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• t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The fact that Congress could come together so rapidly and so unanimously to do something so stupid, at a time when our country is falling apart, says so much about their priorities. They work for the Capitalist class, not us.

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• beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Trump: Ban TikTok! Trump: Save TikTok! Biden: Ban TikTok! Biden: Save TikTok!

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  • jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    just a couple of regular old politicians

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    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      These two fuckers need to share the same retirement hole.

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• ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hmm I wonder if the game now is for Trump to ‘negotiate’ a deal where one of his cronies buys it and turns it into another right-wing propaganda machine just like Musk did with Twitter. I could see that as a reason why he’d backtrack on it so abruptly.

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  • naeap@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Isn’t it already a right wing propaganda machine?

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    • Kwakigra@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Because of the nature of the algorithm, it absolutely is this for plenty of people. It’s also not the case for plenty of people. I doubt there are many right-wingers going on to join a Chinese app called “Little Red Book” which has rules that require the promotion of Chinese socialism. It’s the most popular app in the US now because of this ban.

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    • SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Not really, I’d say it’s equally spread along all points in the political spectrum currently.

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• williams_482@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Trying to enforce anything new right now, just before Trump goes into office, accomplishes nothing and guarantees that Trump will just reverse it. Publicly deciding not to enforce leaves the incoming administration with a less obvious choice PR-wise, and thus the possibility that they might choose to “own the libs” by actually enforcing the ban.

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  • beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I always wished the Dems would leverage this power a bit more. But who knows–maybe this Biden move is trying to get Trump to ban it.

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• spit_evil_olive_tips@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  me sowing (signing a bill into law and bragging about its bipartisan support): haha fuck yeah!

  me reaping (hearing that the Supreme Court has ruled 9-0 to uphold the law that I signed): well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.

  there’s always fierce competition in the category of Dumbest Own-Goal by a Democrat…but here comes President “only mostly dead…still slightly alive” Biden with a last-minute buzzerbeater and…MUH GAWD HE’S DONE IT!

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