Just so everyone knows, especially the young people, Crooked Joe Biden is responsible for banning TikTok. He is the one pushing it to close, and doing it to help his friends over at Facebook become richer and more dominant, and able to continue to fight, perhaps illegally, the Republican Party. It’s called ELECTION INTERFERENCE! Young people, and lots of others, must remember this on November 5th, ELECTION DAY, when they vote! They also must remember, more importantly, that he is destroying our Country, and is A MAJOR THREAT TO DEMOCRACY!
Wait a minute. Isn't that the opposite of Trump's position when he was in office? I'm sure you all well remember what happened in 2020.
TikTok sued in federal court..On July 31, Donald Trump told reporters that he would be banning TikTok's operations in the United States, rejecting a potential deal where ByteDance would sell a majority stake in TikTok to an American tech company such as Microsoft.[7] Trump reversed this position a few days later, announcing on August 3 that TikTok had until September 15 to sell a majority of its holdings to a company based in the United States. He stipulated, however, that the United States Department of the Treasury would have to receive a "substantial amount of money" from the deal, attributing TikTok's success to operations in the United States and arguing that TikTok owed the United States government for this success.[8]
On August 6, 2020 Donald Trump issued Executive Order 13942, directing the Secretary of Commerce to prohibit any and all transactions with ByteDance under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. To invoke the act, Trump also declared a national emergency based on the information TikTok collects.[9] The order gave ByteDance until November 12, 45 days after the issuing of the order, to sell a majority portion of the company to an American company.[10] On November 13, Trump extended the deadline to November 27,[11] and then to December 4.[10]
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Biden is taking exactly the same position as Trump, except that Biden is enacting it with the overwhelming bipartisan support of Congress.On December 7, 2020, three days after the deadline to sell the company had passed, Nichols fully blocked Trump's request to ban TikTok in the United States. The judge argued that Trump's emergency economic powers did not suffice to operate an arbitrary ban on a mobile app.[18]
For the record, I do not believe TikTok should be banned. But I find it amusing that Trump's policy on TikTok is just as conveniently flexible as his policy on abortion.
One of the writers of the bill to ban Tik Tok, Rep Michael McCaul (R).. is investing heavily in.. here's a shock.. META (Facebook/Instagram parent company)
Here's a timeline of events:
March 3: Authored Tik Tok Ban Bill
March 13: Bill voted on in House and passed.
March 22: Bought $150K in META
March 26: Bought $150K in META
March 28: Bought $150K in META
April 1: Bought $350K in META
April 5: Bought $350K in META
April 13: Voted YES on Tik Tok Ban
Fuck this insider trading bullshit.
TERM LIMITS
BAN STOCK TRADES WHILE IN OFFICE
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. ~ Marcus Aurelius“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984