The US Supreme Court and its decisions

[CoffeeHorse]

Yes, actually. The Pornhub comments section is wild.

People will be people. Create something wholesome, and people will make porn out of it. Create a site just for porn, and the comments will discuss anything but porn.

 

[Rhinox]

Quite a few people have made a great deal of money on Pornhub doing decidedly non pornographic acts.
I recall one guy whose entire schtick was that he was the 'wholesome boyfriend' and did videos of him washing dishes, folding laundry, et al.

 

[Dekafox]

And the TikTok Ban has been upheld by the Supreme Court as not violating the First Amendment. Full court writeup here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-656_ca7d.pdf

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Sometimes every option is bad. This precedent sucks, and also the damage done by TikTok is incalculable.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

In a complete reversal of his initial position, Trump has demanded that TikTok stay online.

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[Ungnome]

Sound like someone offered ol' Trump some kickbacks. Either that or he realizes that propaganda spread from TikTok helped keep the Democrat voters home on election day.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

One of his handlers in China probably complained.

 

[abates]

TikTok has also added a popup screen to their app in the US which credits Trump with preventing them from being blocked there. Blatant propaganda.

 

[Rhinox]

In a complete reversal of his initial position, Trump has demanded that TikTok stay online.

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Part of the scam. He created the problem, but that was 4 years ago. No one remembers that part. Now he's the big hero, coming in to save the day.
That Bytedance is willing to go along with this demonstrates that China is very pleased to see the US cripple itself by re electing the Creamsickle racist. By helping him with this, they get to continue to use Tiktok to glean data and manipulate the American public while at the same time giving everyone's hated racist uncle president a boost to his numbers to start his second term when he needs the push to help get through his dictatorish executive orders.

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

However, other Chinese tech services haven't done so well...

‘It’s a surprise to us’: Marvel Snap removed following US TikTok ban | VGC

The collectible card game is another victim of the US’s TikTok ban…

www.videogameschronicle.com

 

[Pocket]

Being contrarian has been the Republicans' signature move for decades and one that Trump has always readily made use of. Probably the only reason he waited this long was because his original plan to either personally buy it out or have Elon buy it fell through.