nondescripthandle @ nondescripthandle @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Tomorrow Trump becomes the commander in cheif of the executive branch, the branch explicitly in charge of enforcing the law. The concept of salutary neglect is not new to America, and I don't think much could stop him if he decided to simply not enforce the law as written. As you point out, it would not be the first time the country played by it's own rules made up on the spot.

I can be very critical of the fediverse, especially where I want it to do better, but I think stagnation isn't the right word I think 'maintaining' fits more. The fediverse isn't beholden to the grow or die model capitalist projects need and it remains a space that is unique enough to warrant people coming back here, or coming here for certain reasons or content or whatever. I think the model to hope for would be continue maintaining and being ready for when the next group of people get fed up enough to follow through and come here (fediverse in general)

I was thinking about that too and I think the motivation is jussst barely different enough thanks to FOMO. Mastodon just doesn't have the same amount of content as TikTok, especially to those already on TT. If Americans who used to use the app see the creators they used to follow bypassing the ban, they will feel like they're missing something if they don't, as opposed to what awaited them behind the hurdles of the fediverse was all unknown to them with little FOMO unless they already knew people on here. I could absolutely be wrong, but seeing Americans run to redbook tells me at least some of them are fighting, maybe aimlessly so, but still trying.

Not as many people as there are on there now for sure, but likely enough to tell a good portion of the rest how to do it. Russian and Chinese netizens are intricately familiar with VPN's and networking because their governments create environments where they need to be, people cite this when they talk about how so many prolific hackers come from those countries since from the beginning they've needed to circumvent security to surf the web. I wouldn't bet against something similar happening here if the conditions were right, maybe not to the same extent, but I'd imagine we'd be surprised how many do make it over that barrier.

I agree with you, in comparison this is really small . . . for those of us paying attention. I think it's an unfortunate state of the nation where more people will notice this than the genocide financing, which seems quite bipartisan in Washington. It doesn't surprise me most Americans make more fuss over the app than the weapons, and the scramble and sudden coverage of it despite the ban looming for almost half a year seem to show that. Some people (and many politicians) will also unfortunately see Bidens Israel stance as a good thing no matter what.

You're right and the US can snatch those for sure but let's say Tiktok wasn't planning on bribing Trump and instead decided to be non compliant and force the US to execute the ban somehow. Other than Servers and Real estate, I'd imagine all liquid would be long gone into China and the continued data from users would outweigh the cost of those seized assets, even with many users not being able to manage the technological hurdle of loading a delisted app

How much you want to bet they don't listen to the writers as soon protecting profit is part of the issue then wonder why the plan didn't work.

Delisting is not a ban though, and who's going to force a Chinese company to pay fines levied by America? Delisting is the most they could do, use a VPN or sideloading and boom, you'd have tiktok again.

Tiktok went dark voluntarily, I don't think the US even has the infrastructure to enforce the ban. So yes, all he has to do is tell the CEO to turn it back on and tell the app stores not to delist it. As Cheif of the executive branch, enforcement of the laws is your purview.

The current Ban was not brought into motion by Trump, the current Ban started being discussed in congress in 2024, trumps efforts fell apart, shockingly enough. https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-timeline-ban-biden-india-d3219a32de913f8083612e71ecf1f428

I told y'all two days ago this was horrible optics for Democrats, this wasn't hard to see coming.

Oh yall are mad now. I'm not the one who pitched Trump a softball. Save it for your representative. Schumer saw it coming too.

TikTok voluntarily went dark on the 19th, they've been saying publicly that without clarity from the Supreme Court that they would, which is interesting, because if they didn't I have no idea how the US would enforce the ban.

Which means they've legislated themselves into a game of whack a mole. Without true regulations all they can do is wait for the next mole to pop up.

Lmfao oh man because AMD wasn't encroaching enough on intels market share, make your brand even more political than it already is. Hitching their trailer to a beneficiary of apartheid is notoriously on brand for them though, so there's that.

Biden administration’s policies “were basically supported by an overwhelming majority of Israelis after the trauma of October 7”.

Too bad Biden wasn't running for president of Israel but here in America, now he has to hand over the reigns to a fascist.

That man is as close to sub human as real humans can be.

Wild that in the article they mention Isreal has killed more than three times as many journalists as China has jailed. These numbers seem raw to me too, meaning not per capita. If Isreal was as populous as China and continued arresring Journalists at the same per capita rate they would have arrested over 6,500 journalist last year to get a sense of the absolutely wild difference in scale.

Even when you vote Democrat, you get what Republicans want anyway. Resist libs can't even bother to resist anymore.

Funny how when you rob or even kill people with a spreadsheet, it just doesn't count.

Saw someone joke that if companies really did need more masculine energy that it would be really bad news for Zuck