because he did such a great job with twitter
Depends on how you look at it.
People really have hard time understanding that jsut because plebs get fucked, it doesn’t mean it is not a W for the owner class lol
When the primary journalistic nexus is systematically dismantled does the owner class chalk a W?
… Unfortunately yes. He just translated money into power
Well, depending on how you see it, he definitely did
Government stake in TikTok! You think he can’t be dumber. And yet, he surprises you every day.
Don’t think he realizes how problematic it would be for the government to have a stake in any company that actively removes posts. Suddenly they’re forced to allow far more speech than they previously did.
Yeah, but who’s going to enforce that?
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Two great manipulators in concert - Ouverture:
“Tiktok is a tool for Chinese propaganda, but we’d prefer if it were a tool for American propaganda instead.”
Remember, Zucc was a big sponsor of the TikTok ban!
The fact that they only targeted Tiktok already shows their motives. They claim that Tiktok is a powerful tool for data collection and propaganda. They claim that’s too dangerous to leave in the hands of China.
However, all the other social media companies (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc) are all equally as powerful. There’s only one difference between them: who controls the propaganda.
Goverment stake, isn’t that communism?
No, but they always claimed it was.
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All of this because some dude in the country with more guns per capita in the world, can’t shoot for shit.
And because almost 400 million other people didn’t even try.
So…
Members of the government are seizing private companies for themselves?
Isn’t that why we can’t have universal healthcare or free education?
Because the slippery slope would lead to the government seizing private property?
Why are we skipping the good parts?
Civil forfeiture has existed for decades. Taking property for themselves hasn’t been the problem.
Shares are special type of property in this country
Government can seize your house for public good… But never owners shares in his grift!
This is to help Elon Musk control TikTok without actually having to buy all of it.
The government share are going to be non-voting shares.
Why shouldn’t the taxpayer subsidize another company of this grifter?
Because that’s what’s been going on for a while now?
Exactly right, fuck the plebs.
No health care, no maternity leave… We got no money for that.
But we got money to make President Musl rich!
Because he is the puppet master.
Oh, but it’s fine when the government is made up of corporatists.
Oh so they do wanna kill TikTok.
They want to enrich the in-crowd and cement complete media control of the US.
Pretty sure they already did. Turning it into a right wing boomer platform is going to chase all the kids away and with it whatever broader cultural relevance it might have had.
I’d love to see TiXToX
The media really moved swiftly back into “Stop the fucking presses, Donald Trump just sneezed twice in a row” status
Did anyone expect anything less? Trump was great for their profits.
boost app for Lemmy has a nice word filter and trump has been added. I’m already exhausted. I wish there was an easy way to word block on the web, since I use that more than my phone. Clearly evident, I’m on ‘web’ now <sigh>
Some of the different interfaces do have filters. I use Mlmym (like the old reddit interface) usually, but the Voyager interface supports filters. I took a quick look at Photon and Alexandrite but didn’t see filters in those. I think I’ll switch to usign Voyager for a while.
I’ve thought about adding him as a filter but I’m afraid I’d stop getting most US news. Even if I don’t want to have any discussions about him, plenty of policy changes and laws are going to be a result of his actions and I will need/want to know about them.
Ya, I get it for sure… I just do not want it consuming me which is is currently doing.
been asking about this from day one
Voyager works as a web app and PWA. It has keyword filtering.
I tried this yesterday and just couldn’t deal with that ui. I did run across a post about using uBlock Origin to block posts and it seems to work quite well!
https://lemmy.world/comment/14608226
Who could have ever seen this coming?
Yup you called it.
You, seemingly
If they nationalize it, even partially, they’re not gonna be able claim any loopholes on government censorship by letting third party platforms do the dirty work.
This may be going off on a tangent, but it seems appropriate here. I am sick and tired of hearing about every little minutia of clickbait bullshit related to Trump. If Musk wants to buy and tank TikTok, great. I don’t give a fuck one way or another. Trump isn’t buying TikTok, and I truly don’t give a shit what his opinion is on it.
I want to stay aware of current events in my country. If the president signs an executive order, I want to hear about it. I don’t want to hear about what his friends are doing. I couldn’t care less who made his wife’s hat. I’d rather watch paint dry than a video of him and his wife dancing. I hate that I know he consumes McDonald’s slop and Diet Coke in the oval office.
People argue about how news outlets are biased right or left. The real problem is that news outlets are just entertainment outlets, and not legitimate journalism. I don’t care if you’re reading Fox News or CNN; you’re still going to wade through a river of worthless celebrity worship before you actually find something of substance. Scroll down far enough, and you won’t be reading about Trump any more. Instead, you’ll be reading about which actors are fucking each other and the latest and “this year’s hottest budget-friendly Temu styles that are now made of only slightly toxic synthetic fibers.” If you’re lucky, you might find an article about how some random nobody met another random nobody on vacation and got married. Good for them. I’m glad they’re happy. I still don’t give a shit.
Great. Don’t engage then. But somewhere between 30 and 50 percent of Americans use the app. It’s fate is national news.
While I agree with the sentiment, I’d say this qualifies as news. Elons not buying shake shack, he’s buying a social media platform with a very opaque algorithm that has the power to influence a large chunk of the American public. Even if he tanks it, twitter has shown that through network and data ownership combined with sheer inertia many people will remain on an app even after its been revealed to have its thumb on the scale for one side.
In addition to that, they’re suggesting a government stake, which likely means using taxpayer money to help him subsidize it. Hmm. Where have we seen that before?
I mean, this was probably the point from the beginning. I’m sure this has been their plan since they saw that he could turn a place like Twitter into a propaganda machine in just under a year. I’m probably just grasping at straws here, but it seems pretty sus that the TikTok ban only started gaining traction around the time Elmo turned Twitter into a shit hole.
