Social Media and the state

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Flame wars can be fun to watch and toss a log or two on.

While it may not have exactly been a flame war, you weren't here (SLU) for a certain Luna-tic or a certain Bigfoot fan. We might not all admit it, but it was kind of fun.
this thread became a much bigger flame war after I said that... but still amusing, haha.
 
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How does the US enforce US laws in another country?
Of course, we don't and we didn't try to. What Congress said was, "Unless you sell to somebody we like, you can't keep doing business in the US."

I imagine the US accounts for a considerable amount of Tik Tok's revenue, so it is a pretty big club to hold over their head.

Trump wants the US to buy 50%. Yay, state controlled media! 🥳
 

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Predictable, inevitable. The chip on your shoulder was visible on your way in.

Allow me to flip the tarot cards...
Temperance: you'll bide your time.
The moon: you'll return under a cloud of secrecy behind a new name.
The chariot: you'll race into a new conflict.
The tower: you'll make a mistake that reveals who you are, and crash and burn, flouncing away a second time.
I have a suspicion that this is the same person who fairly recently pulled the same bs.
 

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Of course, we don't and we didn't try to. What Congress said was, "Unless you sell to somebody we like, you can't keep doing business in the US."

I imagine the US accounts for a considerable amount of Tik Tok's revenue, so it is a pretty big club to hold over their head.

Trump wants the US to buy 50%. Yay, state controlled media! 🥳
In truth, yes, the US has and does. See my previous post. https://www.virtualverse.one/forums/threads/social-media-and-the-state.14264/post-267084

Are people really so addicted to TikTok they can't live without it? I can say it won't have any affect/effect for me as I don't use TikTok and have no interest in it. I haven't even posted on my FB in more than 5 years now.

Except the US won't be the buyer, Musk will be. Do you really think he would allow all that profit to go to the US government?
 
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I get the idea that people following say, POTUS, are now following Trump (new POTUS) and the old one, which in Instagram is named like, POTUS46Archive or something.

But the weird part is, not being able to unfollow it, which is just a built in ability for accounts.
 

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I get the idea that people following say, POTUS, are now following Trump (new POTUS) and the old one, which in Instagram is named like, POTUS46Archive or something.

But the weird part is, not being able to unfollow it, which is just a built in ability for accounts.
I think you are right. I checked my FB and no orange baboon or POTUS because I just don't bother to follow anyone outside of friends and family.
 
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I get the idea that people following say, POTUS, are now following Trump (new POTUS) and the old one, which in Instagram is named like, POTUS46Archive or something.

But the weird part is, not being able to unfollow it, which is just a built in ability for accounts.
It's not like those requests go into a work queue for someone physically to process, it's automatic. Now, having umpteen million unsubscribes firing off in a couple hours, with built-in transactional latency what with having to lock the POTUS record for a microsecond to ensure transactional consistency, I could understand that. You just can't roll in extra servers because you're dealing with a unique data record.
 
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I seriously doubt the Chinese government would ever be interested in selling TikTok (or anything) to a very strong odor related to animal glands.
I don't know. If Elon Musk asked me, I'd consider selling TikTok if he gave me his left testicle.







I mean, I'd still have to decline and the testicle would wander straight into the trash bin, but still...
 

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I hate all of this.

Like fuck I just want to share shit with family and what not, but now its just feeding the ugly hate machine. Now I don't, because instead of just having a good fucking time on Facebook or IG, or even Twitter, its all just guilt guilt except now I don't even use them over the guilt.

Fuck Zuck for shitting on his own party.
 

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Suckerburg, Bezos and Musk. Line them all up and then bring in the firing squad. Wonder which one will shit/piss themselves first.
It would definitely be Musk. He seems like he is all talk. Bezos would just have quiet dignity and Zuckerberg seems like he actually has a bit of "tough guyness" in him.
 

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I hate all of this.

Like fuck I just want to share shit with family and what not, but now its just feeding the ugly hate machine. Now I don't, because instead of just having a good fucking time on Facebook or IG, or even Twitter, its all just guilt guilt except now I don't even use them over the guilt.

Fuck Zuck for shitting on his own party.
We'll have to go back to sending letters to each other. Physical hand written (yes, hand written) letters. Nothing electronic.
 

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It would definitely be Musk. He seems like he is all talk. Bezos would just have quiet dignity and Zuckerberg seems like he actually has a bit of "tough guyness" in him.
They all would.