***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[RustyShackleford]

Damn

People already gave Scamtif El-Whiteed two milli

 

[DripNick]

Damn

People already gave Scamtif El-Whiteed two milli

Between Nkechi Amare Diallo and him, who's the top tier hof grifter?

 

[Based Jesus]

Between Nkechi Amare Diallo and him, who's the top tier hof grifter?

Umar

 

[osh kosh bosh]

welp, grand opening, grand closing.


I hear youtube is hiring.

EDIT

don beat me to it

 

[RustyShackleford]

Elon gonna sue his *** too

 

[WASHED KING]

What are the odds of this Tik Tok ban happening. I need it.

LETS GOOOOOOO BAN IT

 

[osh kosh bosh]

What are the odds of this Tik Tok ban happening. I need it.

watching left and right wing grifters advocate for the free speech rights of the chinese communist party has been hilarious to watch.

 

[Based Jesus]

 

[Mark Antony]

Monday is long time away in internet days. Don should drop it today.

 

[WASHED KING]

Don't really care about the privacy aspects. Personally think it's deteriorates young minds. Just one more thing I have to battle with at work.

Ban it.

 

[RustyShackleford]

All things considered I am in favor of the bill

They should just sell it

Maybe Microsoft is still interested

 

[Mark Antony]

Yeah just sell the US side. Otherwise kids will just move to whatever else is new, or youtube, X, facebook shorts.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

its actually totally reasonable to have rules for americans and have different rules for foreign adversary governments.

 

[Based Jesus]

Reasonable for who? If there are privacy concerns they can easily be extended to the entire industry but instead the chinese app is targeted while every other CEO mocks congress to their face. It's also bad politics for Dems.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

Reasonable for who? If there are privacy concerns they can easily be extended to the entire industry but instead the chinese app is targeted while every other CEO mocks congress to their face.

well yes because the chinese app is chinese. problem?

again since when did people suddenly become free market libertarians?
American has all sort of preferential treatment for citizens and local business then it does for international business.

let alone international business controlled by foreign adversary.

like were you this charaged up when they banned huawei and ZTE from the american 5G infrastructure market?

It's also bad politics for Dems.

what evidence do you have for this claim? someone else can just buy tiktok.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

Im so confused by the libertarian turn by some letists on this issue.

TikTok can be sold to an american company, there's zero upside in giving the CCP american free speech rights.

 

[RustyShackleford]

Reasonable for who? If there are privacy concerns they can easily be extended to the entire industry but instead the chinese app is targeted while every other CEO mocks congress to their face. It's also bad politics for Dems.

The concern isn't strictly about data collection and privacy. It is that the Chinese Communist Party has a mechanism to affect TikTok's algorithm whenever they like, potentially for political gain.

And this concern is valid.

TikTok proved it last week too. They sent out a message to all their US users, mischaracterizing the bill, and encouraging people to take political action.

And their CEO's reasoning as to why that would never happen with the CCP is basically "trust me bro".

Everyone was rightfully upset at them trying to use Twitter to benefit Trump, yet no one should be concerned about this?

Yes there is some hypocrisy surrounding all this, but still, it is reasonable for the US government to not want an adversary to have this kind of power.

China would never let something like this fly in their country either.

Just sell the US operations and be done with it.

 

[Based Jesus]

Now I'm a libertarian because I want industry-wide regulations that don't make it appear to young voters as if the government only gets off its *** to be jingoist.

 

[RustyShackleford]

I see a lot of online Leftist are falling for a scam by TikTok

They do not want to divest. That is it.

They don't give a **** about free speech, data privacy, equal treatment, none of that.

In the face of a ban, they probably will sell

The ban is just the stick to force a sale

So all people are arguing about is if ByteDance gets to get their their highly successful product, or if they get to get billions for it from an American company.

People gotta ask themselves, this is really a progressive cause worth fighting for?

 

[osh kosh bosh]

Now I'm a libertarian because I want industry-wide regulations that don't make it appear to young voters as if the government only gets off its *** to be jingoist.

Well yah not being protectionist is def libertarian coded. The idea that it's bad to favour domestic companies vs international firms is def more libertarian than progressive.

Hypocrisy is annoying but it's not actually a good reason to not to do the obviously smart thing.

I'm sure young voters will recover, why would they care who the parent company of Tiktol is?

 

[moonman818]

I'm all for banning TikTok.

Hopefully FB & IG is next.

 

[Frankie Blue]

If Don Lemon is smart he will title the interview "Elon Musk did not like this interview so he fired me". Or something petty like that. Would get huge numbers. Will either way though i'm guessing.

 

[aepps20]

Does this mean no more buss it challenges? I’m asking for a friend.

 

[aepps20]

By friend I mean myself if anyone was interested.

 

[IATT]