Trump urges Supreme Court to hit pause on a law that could ban TikTok in the U.S. next month

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-urges-supreme-court-hit-pause-law-ban-tiktok-us-month-rcna185606

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adarza@lemmy.ca · 100 pts · 1y (3 replies)

it was donvict's idea to ban 'em to begin with.

T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 71 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Yeah, but didn't he recently meet with the owners of tick tock? I'm sure some money greased his slimy brain

jeffw@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 1y (1 reply)

YASS he sure did meet with one of the owners

Jeffrey Yass, it was Jeffrey Yass, some billionaire investor who just so happened to be a big campaign donor

fluxion@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y

Grifters gonna grift

skeezix@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Seems to me that the supreme court shouldnt be able to be “urged” to rule the wants of an executive

some_designer_dude@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y

Have you not been paying attention? They’re just an old and shitty theatre troupe performing the whims of the highest bidder.

nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

Just one more thing that American voters simply do not care about.

WanderingVentra@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

Way too late for that lol

overload@sopuli.xyz · 25 pts · 1y (7 replies)

Wouldn't that make him pro-China?

phoneymouse@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
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theonlytruescotsman@sh.itjust.works · -14 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Given tiktok isnt a Chinese company by any possible definition that doesn't label all Asians as Chinese, no not really.

Xatolos@reddthat.com · 10 pts · 1y (4 replies)
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theonlytruescotsman@sh.itjust.works · -8 pts · 1y (3 replies)
catloaf@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 1y

You're telling me that Bytedance Ltd, headquartered in Beijing, founded and partially owned by two Chinese people, is not a Chinese company?

unstoppableforskin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Omg are you being forced at gunpoint to lie?

Xatolos@reddthat.com · 0 pts · 1y
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Tyfud@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y (1 reply)
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ovalofsand@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

It's sad that most people don't know that a plurality isn't the same thing as a majority

OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Weird to see trump and the ACLU on the same side for a change.

Doomsider@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y

ACLU is against it due to principals of freedom of speech not that TikTok is some worthwhile company.

Trump is against it because he wants a big bribe for them to continue to operate. He has always been a blackmail king so this is right up his alley.

WanderingVentra@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y

It's like RFK trying to ban medical commercials. I agree with him under this one circumstance, but for entirely different reasons lol.

WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y

A broken clock…