Chinese-Owned TikTok Back after Trump Pledge

Sunday, January 19, 2025

Around 12 hours after shutting itself down in the United States, TikTok is back for many users almost like it never left, attributing its return to a move by President-elect Donald Trump to save the app.

Posted by retort at 04:56 PM | 14 COMMENTS | permalink

Call me crazy, but I think Trump is working in cahoots with the communist Chinese government on this whole "TikTok ban" thing.[image or embed]
-- Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) January 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM

Comments

Looks like the check for the Inaugural gift cleared.

#1 | Posted by Wardog at 2025-01-19 05:45 PM

And all the MAGAts will be cool with the Dotard stepping in to help the Chinese Commies?

#2 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-01-19 05:45 PM

www.wired.com

Two months into trying to understand why a mob of angry protesters violently stormed the US Capitol, a significant influence remains overlooked: TikTok.

In the search for accountability, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube"the perennial havens for disinformation and radicalization"were joined on center stage by a younger fringe platform: Parler. At its apex, the temporarily deprovisioned Parler had fewer than 20 million accounts and peaked at just under 3 million daily active users. TikTok has more than 800 million active users across the world and 50 million in the US who log in every single day.

#3 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-19 05:54 PM

Trump has enormous influence over the most corrupt court in the land. 'Nuff said.

#4 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-01-19 07:05 PM

Surely Trump didn't set this all up, did he?
After all, there's NO WAY this country would elect a man president who had documented business dealings and profits from China! It's not as if the CEO of Tik-Tok is gonna be at the Inauguration and larghesse party afterwards, right? haha

I'm reminded of all the Republiturds breathlessly claiming Joe Biden had received millions from China ... and all of that disappeared like the nothingburger it was.

A related topic: didn't CONGRESS pass a bill requiring TikTok to shut down? If so, how can it be working again? I'm thinking Reagan and the Contras, part 2 here.

#5 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-01-19 08:37 PM

The law allows for an extension of a deal if it is in the works. Haven't heard of a buyer making an offer yet so it sounds like he is ignoring/stetching the law as usual.

It's painfully obvious though Trump is doing a bait and switch. So he can be the hero that saves tik tok after he convinced/pressured congress to ban it.

#6 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-19 09:09 PM

E1G1

Yes, they did. And the Supreme Court agreed with them.

However, that not the end of the story. Stay tuned for Trump's grand Entrance into the Presidency when he will do everything in his power to earn the money TikTok paid him to come to their rescue.

#7 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-01-19 09:12 PM

I am glad for the people who have created businesses and incomes on Tik-Tok! They shodn't be punishrd for just trying to earn a living.

#8 | Posted by danni at 2025-01-20 09:24 AM

It's a free speech issue too. Everyone who uses TikTok was injured by the ban.

Blanket bans of open platforms is Bad Policy.

It's to protect Israeli War Criminals..Mostly...

They hate the open exchange of Information.

They want to Control the Narrative.

#9 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-01-20 04:39 PM

DANNI

TikTok was both good and bad. It was the bad that got them in trouble. There are other ways to promote a business without linking themselves to dangerous foreign propaganda, especially the bad stuff where children are concerned.

Maybe Trump can make a case before the Supreme Court to clean up their act but that remains to be seen.

#10 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-01-20 05:35 PM

I hope he does soon

#11 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-01-20 10:12 PM

#10

Meanwhile "X" is nothing but porn.

#12 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-01-20 11:37 PM

#9 | Posted by Effeteposer

Everyone who uses TikTok is a victim of the Chinese government data collection and manipulation apparatus EVERY SINGLE DAY.

I mean are you all in on Heroin use and giving it to kids? This is only marginally different. TikTok is BAD NEWS. I have been preaching this for years. It is a rival foreign government controlled intervention, propaganda and data collection mechanism. This isn't about free speech. I don't get why every idiot brings up free speech when interventions are put in place to stop propaganda and lies. No I get it because they are idiots who don't get it. Do you think China has "free speech" on TikTok or any other platform? If you are a influencer riding on TikTok you are simply an Anti-American anti-freedom greedy idiot.

It's like saying you must tolerate the intolerant when the truth is you should not tolerate the intolerant.

#13 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2025-01-21 12:48 PM

To expand on that it is bad enough other platforms, companies, sports, etc all kowtow in deference to the Chinese and their wishes already in order to have access to the market. The NBA is one of the worst.

#14 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2025-01-21 01:09 PM

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