#trumptok

It's time to get off of TikTok TrumpTok.

TikTok wants users to believe that errors blocking uploads of anti-ICE videos or direct messages mentioning Jeffrey Epstein are due to technical errors—not the platform seemingly shifting to censor content critical of Donald Trump after he hand-picked the US owners who took over the app last week. However, experts say that TikTok users’ censorship fears are justified, whether the bugs are to blame or not. Ioana Literat, an associate professor of technology, media, and learning at Teachers College, Columbia University, has studied TikTok’s politics since the app first shot to popularity in the US in 2018. She told Ars that “users’ fears are absolutely justified” and explained why the “bugs” explanation is “insufficient.” “Even if these are technical glitches, the pattern of what’s being suppressed reveals something significant,” Literat told Ars. “When your ‘bug’ consistently affects anti-Trump content, Epstein references, and anti-ICE videos, you’re looking at either spectacular coincidence or systems that have been designed—whether intentionally or through embedded biases—to flag and suppress specific political content.”

Why do you think Trump was so eager to have TikTok American owned? What he was really angling to do is get it MAGA owned.

Some users are already choosing to leave TikTok. A quick glance at the TikTok subreddit shows many users grieving while vowing to delete the app, Literat pointed out, though some are reportedly struggling to delete accounts due to technical issues. Even with some users blocked from abandoning their accounts, however, “the daily average of TikTok uninstalls are up nearly 150 percent in the last five days compared to the last three months,” data analysis firm Sensor Tower told CNN. [ ... ] TikTok USDS likely wants to distance itself from Trump’s comments about making the app more MAGA. But new owners have deep ties with Trump, including Larry Ellison, the chief technology officer of Oracle, whom some critics suggest has benefited more than anyone else from Trump’s presidency. Greene noted that Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is a key investor in Silver Lake. Both firms now have a 15 percent stake in the TikTok USDS joint venture, as well as MGX, which also seems to have Trump ties. CNBC reported MGX used the Trump family cryptocurrency, World Liberty Financial, to invest $2 billion in Binance shortly before Trump pardoned Binance’s CEO from money laundering charges, which some viewed as a possible quid pro quo.

Get off of ALL Trump broligarch platforms. Don't bore me with lame excuses why you are still there. You are supporting MAGA just by being on Twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp, and now TikTok.

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And TrumpTok is born.

Prophecy time:

And it will immediately become a MAGA alternative to mean stupid WOKE YouTube.

And once that happens, once the MAGA base "doesn't need YouTube anymore," Trump is free to order Brendan Carr to tell Google the FCC has "reinterpreted" existing statutes, meaning they can regulate it now like TV to "protect children and free speech."

Then Google will have to obediently ban all queer and "lefist terrorist" content that criticizes Trump, and promote far-right content without question, or face ludicrous fines.

They'll sue, the Supreme Court will say there is an implied Super Amendment that the President can do whatever to keep kids safe, and YouTube will bend the knee.

Users will then abandon the platform because it will basically become AI slop network TV. And in 5 years it will reach such Tumblr-levels of unprofitability and Google will sell it...to Skydance. Which is owned by that MAGA bro whose dad has all the money and owns Oracle.

And it won't be a monopoly because the Ellisons are different people! See?

Welcome back US TikTok !

Welcome back Donald Trump !

The video app went dark in response to a federal ban, which the President-elect promised to pause the ban on day one of his return to the White House.

Trump will be inaugurated today Monday January 20, 2025.