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STATEMENT FROM TIKTOK:
In agreement with our service providers, TikTok is in the process of restoring service. We thank President Trump for providing the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties providing TikTok to over 170…
— TikTok Policy (@TikTokPolicy) January 19, 2025
This is what I said would happen.
There was no way they were going to actually ban TikTok. I said this at the beginning when Biden first made this move: they were playing chicken with the Chinese, trying to force them into selling. The Chinese are smarter than the US Congress, and they understood that no one in the government is ready to be this obvious about tyrannical government censorship.
It’s so funny they actually thanked Trump.
TikTok said on Sunday it was restoring its service after President-elect Donald Trump said he would revive the app’s access in the U.S. when he returns to power on Monday.
“As a result of president Trump’s efforts, TikTok is back in the U.S.,” the platform said in a message to users.
TikTok also issued an earlier statement after U.S. users reported being able to access the Chinese-owned service’s website while the far more widely used TikTok app itself began coming back online for some users with just a few basic services.
“In agreement with our service providers, TikTok is in the process of restoring service,” TikTok said in the earlier statement that also thanked Trump for “providing the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties (for) providing TikTok to over 170 million Americans and allowing over 7 million small businesses to thrive.”
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TikTok stopped working for U.S. users late on Saturday before a law shutting it down on national security grounds took effect on Sunday. U.S. officials had warned that under Chinese parent company ByteDance, there was a risk of Americans’ data being misused.
Trump said he would “extend the period of time before the law’s prohibitions take effect, so that we can make a deal to protect our national security.”
“I would like the United States to have a 50% ownership position in a joint venture,” he wrote on Truth Social.
I think it’s already beyond that. Sometimes these things are difficult to figure out definitively when you have a foreign company and you don’t know exactly how it’s structured, but what I’ve read is that 60% of ByteDance is owned by “international investors,” many of whom are definitely American. There are three American board members.
The whole “Chinese company” thing comes from the fact that the Chinese government owns a 1% stake, known as the “Golden Share.” This is a Chinese system that allows the government to make decisions about the company, and all of the investors must respect this.
Despite the fact that fat American retards can’t understand that the word “communism” means something different in Chinese, China is a free market economy, and I have and will continue to argue that the lack of regulation in China makes it a much freer market than the US market. It’s a long story and you can find my articles about it, but China puts virtually no regulation on small businesses, really at all, while with big corporations the government owns a stake (usually the 1% “Golden Share”) and regulates them to prevent abuse. The US effectively has the opposite system, where small businesses are completely crushed under tyrannical regulations and big businesses control the government through the campaign finance system.
You can ask yourself which you think is more free. It’s not a hard question for me, but a lot of fat people in America, usually enjoyers of “nigger ball-chucking,” think it is very important that mega-corporations be allowed to operate with impunity. If you bring up the fact that small businesses are crushed under regulation, they just blame Democrats. However, the reason small businesses are crushed is that the big businesses control the government, and want to crush small businesses. This is why Jeff Bezos along with many other heads of big companies lobby for extreme minimum wage laws, along with “health and safety” and “environmental” horseshit, as well as tax schemes that punish small businesses. The single biggest factor in the whole US economy is immigration, which all big businesses push for while it crushes everyone who isn’t extremely wealthy.
But I digress.
Trump is being very kind to the Chinese by setting a standard that is already met, and I think this is probably because even with Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and the rest of the owners of social media companies coming out and saying they’re for free speech, he doesn’t really trust them and therefore wants TikTok to be around to counterbalance these American censorship companies.
But again, it can’t be banned. It would just not be feasible. Chuck Schumer was out there with Trump trying to stop the ban, because he knew Trump would blame the Democrats and it would just look completely ridiculous for the US government to ban what is by several metrics the most popular app in the country.
The fact that people were migrating to Rednote and seeing that America is a complete shithole didn’t help things either.
See: With TikTok Ban Impending, US Users are Flooding Chinese App Rednote
The trend towards free speech is real. It’s just a matter of how far it is going to go.
I’m still banned from Twitter, as you know. I may attempt to join Zuckerberg’s “Threads” at some point in the future.
Initially, I was thinking about trying to make a new Twitter account after the inauguration, but after the Laura Loomer thing and then Asmongold, it is clearly just a waste of time.
But “Threads” could be interesting.
It’s at least a test. I’m the single most banned person in all of human history, so it would be interesting to test.
