We’re still waiting for the Supreme Court to rule on the TikTok ban case, which is expected to come today or tomorrow. But things are getting increasingly silly. The Biden administration, which act…
  • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
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    6 hours ago

    The fact that Congress could come together so rapidly and so unanimously to do something so stupid, at a time when our country is falling apart, says so much about their priorities. They work for the Capitalist class, not us.

  • williams_482@startrek.websiteEnglish
    4·
    8 hours ago

    Trying to enforce anything new right now, just before Trump goes into office, accomplishes nothing and guarantees that Trump will just reverse it. Publicly deciding not to enforce leaves the incoming administration with a less obvious choice PR-wise, and thus the possibility that they might choose to “own the libs” by actually enforcing the ban.

    They are largely powerless at this stage, and preparing for an idiot to take over their job. Why not?

    • Beej Jorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      3 hours ago

      I always wished the Dems would leverage this power a bit more. But who knows–maybe this Biden move is trying to get Trump to ban it.

  • ShepherdPie@midwest.social
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    22 hours ago

    Hmm I wonder if the game now is for Trump to ‘negotiate’ a deal where one of his cronies buys it and turns it into another right-wing propaganda machine just like Musk did with Twitter. I could see that as a reason why he’d backtrack on it so abruptly.

      • Kwakigra@beehaw.org
        3·
        1 hour ago

        Because of the nature of the algorithm, it absolutely is this for plenty of people. It’s also not the case for plenty of people. I doubt there are many right-wingers going on to join a Chinese app called “Little Red Book” which has rules that require the promotion of Chinese socialism. It’s the most popular app in the US now because of this ban.

        • naeap@sopuli.xyz
          3·
          1 hour ago

          Personally I still don’t believe that a completely unknown app was suddenly getting new members in the means of some grassroots protest.
          Maybe it is more (or gotten) more known through TikTok and that’s why it was basically unknown for me.
          Still, I think this is artificially hyped as a reaction to a potential TikTok ban and not some organic growth - even taking into account people switching in protest

          I think, I’ve heard about this app like once in the last years. And, not wanting to sound self centered, but as a software dev and quite interested in anything internet, I find this development rather strange.

          Was “little red book” promoted on TikTok or how did so many people, who are usually just consumers of feeds, suddenly heard of that new app?
          Especially, when I have a really hard time to have them install a new app, like Signal, in other cases.

          Ok, this wasn’t really a good answer to your comment, sorry. You’re right, that the TikTok feed just builds individual bubbles, so right wingers will get more right wing info and the other way round.
          But the sudden switch to a practically unknown app just… seems fishy

          • Kwakigra@beehaw.org
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            30 minutes ago

            It is a protest. Some Americans may ultimately remain on “Little Red Book” but the main purpose of making it the #1 app in the US was to spite the government. It’s a much more restrictive app than Tiktok, but people are enjoying talking to foreign nationals both ways.