UPDATE: TikTok is working again after President Trump promised an executive order to delay a ban.
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UPDATE: TikTok is working again after President Trump promised an executive order to delay a ban.
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So China can’t own an app in the United States, but they can own 380,000 acres of farmland. Got it.
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The communists have made great gains in the last 4 years. Tomorrow the BS stops
MAGA SAM,
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It’s not only the Chinese buying US farmland, but many other countries too. I remember news stories during President Obama’s time in office about the Saudi’s buying farmland in Arizona, but also farming that land, and then shipping the produce from their farms back to Saudi Arabia. The big issue was that those Saudi owned farms had no concern for the amount of water they used, overused, and wasted, because it wasn’t their country they were hurting.
I don’t understand the interest in the TicTok site. TikToc itself took their site down in the US, to put pressure on the future Trump Administration to eliminate the ban. The ban was on new users downloading the application, those who already had TikToc were able to keep using it, but wouldn’t be able to download future updates, so at some point in the future the site would likely stop working, unless its owner, ByteDance, didn’t have any future updates on the American version. Former President and President-elect Donald Trump has already stated that he’s likely to issue an executive order on a 90-day extension to allow a sale to occur, but the legality of the executive order is in question. Businessman and Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary has offered $20 billion for TikToc. As of a few minutes ago TikToc announced it’s working on restoring service in the US.
You understand lots of things yet it’s beyond your comprehension to understand the interest in a trillion dollar company? Interesting
@THE BLACK KNIGHT – TikTok itself is not the issue. For example, the TikTok.com web site continued to operate as normal during the recent “shutdown.” The TikTok app is the thing that was shut down temporarily. The TikTok app for smartphones, like most apps, tracks exactly where your phone is and much of what you do with it. This all gets fed back to China. That in itself was probably not a concern as it’s known that apps collect information about people. It became a national security issue when TikTok and its app became very popular. Even if the senior leadership of an organization takes steps to ban TikTok all it takes is a single low level person that happens to have the TikTok app installed for China to be able to figure out what that organization is up to. This provides the leverage needed to enables theft of trade secrets or other internal information about the organization.
WC Resident,
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I guess I wasn’t clear enough in my comment. I don’t understand the attraction, interest, and what seems like addiction that millions of American users of TikTok seem to have, but I also never understood the attraction, interest, and addiction many users of Facebook and X/Twitter have either. They’ve never really been of great interest to me.
The ban is a bunch of nonsense that the goons in DC implemented. It will be back for the USA. Most government politicos don’t understand “the internets” let alone technology in general. They write crap laws. Are folks here aware of the BOI act which if you don’t comply you could be fined up to $587 a day for not doing so (look up BOI)? Fortunately for most small fish including myself I am exempt from it.
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Sometimes I think that politicos believe that Orwell’s “1984” was a guidebook for governance.
Hmm, . . . . . now what American company could be harmed by Tik Tok ? ? ?
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Campaign contributions have a better return on investment
than real estate or the stock market.
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“An honest politician is one who,
when he is bought,
will stay bought”
–Simon Cameron 1860
BTW, (and I suspect the Mayor will report so) is back up thanking Trump for clarifying things.
China owns Smithfield Foods too.
The world’s largest pork processor and hog producer, Smithfield has 40 production facilities across the U.S.
If searching for American owned/produced meats I would note that meat co. Fresh Mark Incorporated (Sugardale & Superior Brands) recently was fined $4 million for hiring illegal aliens and falsifying documents.
There is a lot of concern that hog and poultry producers have already been using antibiotics that contain mRNA which many of us don’t want in our food! There was even a report on KPFA the other day about this.
I am 29 years old and most of the people I know are so pissed off and upset about the ban. Personally, I just use Facebook, they have reels and it doesn’t make a difference to me.
I keep seeing all these content creators crying about their income and their TikTok success being jeopardized by the ban.
Am I supposed to feel sympathy? because I don’t. No in the slightest. I think it’s actually pathetic.
I have held down the same job for 6 years and I have an honest job where I work my ass off. I work 40+ hours a week. I still can’t afford a house, let alone rent.
But I am supposed to feel bad that these Tiktok creators could loose their mansions and cars ( which were earned with stupid little videos that took little to no effort to create) ?!?!?!
I know I will get a lot of hate for this, but the fact that 12 hours later TikTok is back online and it has a notice basically saying “Thanks to President Trump, you’re allowed to have it back now”.
WEIRD.
Lastly, I also think it’s amazing that our government was able to make Tik Tok go dark for 12 hours and no one could have access to it, BUT our government can’t shut down child pornography????
Everything about this, is WEIRD.
Very well said! I agree with everything you said.
Lady,
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TikToc took their site down and “made it go dark for 12 hours,” not the US government.
Anyone paying attention knows this is because TikTok allowed unmoderated discussion of the conflicts in the Middle East.
And incredibly useful intelligence gathering tool deployed by CCP,
but I’m sure it’ll be fine.
We have a genius in charge now.
Talk about useful intelligence gathering’tools’. 😜🇺🇸
Boo_Hoo….back to your life’s citizens 🤣