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why is tiktok even still a thing. didn't it get banned? can it pls die already?
Taco
I have just realized that in of 2020 TikTok was about to get banned in US by Trump administration and he even signed an executive order for the ban. But since he lost elections later that year, ban was reversed by Biden administration.
THE FUCKING SAME EXACT THING HAPPENED IN REVERSE IN 2025 when Biden's admin ordered it to be banned in january and it was unbanned (postponed ban) 3 times with the last one lasting until September.
I call extreme sus on this one. There are weird powers around tiktok that are/were important in info-war and elections in general.
They just wanted to control it, but tiktok called their bluff
Err I think you meant they wanted their pay off. Tik Tok is still around so I think they got their bribe, multiple times/administrations
I am sure there are also individuals who would love to control the platform as well.
Tik tok submitted to the US government (probably for a massive bribe) so it's here to stay so long as people keep using it.
What? They haven't changed anything since they were supposed to be banned.
Trump just keeps pushing back the deadline. Right now it'd be banned Sept 17th, but presumably he'll push it back again.
It's just too popular for the administration to take the flak for it disappearing while they're in office
The app broke for a few days with a message kissing Dump's ass, and when it came back, all videos that mentioned fascism had been removed
Tictok shutdown for a week or however long it was. Then we see it's CEO sitting alongside Trump, Zuck and the rest of the oligarchs at the inauguration. Shortly after, the service goes live again followed by user complaints about their feeds being different.
It's not confirmed but the theory is that tictok is now feeding data to meta, or even running off their servers entirely, so that the US government has easy access to everything.
tiktok is the kim kardashian of social media so naturally the government likes to keep it around to keep people dumb