Trump advisor Steve Mnuchin is putting together a team of investors to buy TikTok

[JGalt]

Which would put yet another social media outlet in the hands of conservatives. First the left lost Twitter, and now TikTok? I can already hear the wailing, moaning, and gnashing of teeth from the liberals.

"Trump’s Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says he’s putting together a group to buy TikTok. Later in the interview, he says he speaks with Trump regularly"

 

[Anomalism]

The left has dominated social media for decades. Shifting tides are interesting.

 

[Hellokitty]

I get the issue with TT and China spying blah, blah, blah, but congress has done nothing to address the issue with government controlling speech on the biggest social media platforms.

 

[buckeye]

I get the issue with TT and China spying blah, blah, blah, but congress has done nothing to address the issue with government controlling speech on the biggest social media platforms.

It's because government rarely holds itself accountable. Republicans are dealing with so many scandals and democrats are fighting them tooth and nail on all of them. It used to be opponents were reasonable and conceded when their side was blatantly at fault whne proven wrong as in censuring and cancelling those who speak against the establishment. Ask a democrat what the Twitter Files are and get the blankest stare you've ever seen.

Alex Berenson and the State of Missouri have court cases against the Biden administration on this issue making their way through the courts on this exact issue. Courts are our only hope anymore.

 

[konradv]

Which would put yet another social media outlet in the hands of conservatives. First the left lost Twitter, and now TikTok? I can already hear the wailing, moaning, and gnashing of teeth from the liberals.

"Trump’s Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says he’s putting together a group to buy TikTok. Later in the interview, he says he speaks with Trump regularly"

That seems to be in the crapper, because a big donor would lose out in the divestment. So, Trump did an about-face for the money and is attempting to frame it as “doing it for the kids”! We know what Trump really does things for.

 

[luiza]

The Donald is far too smart to even think about such an elementary blunder .

Imagine it is a joke/wind-up or Steve is having a break down .

 

[RhodyPatriot]

Which would put yet another social media outlet in the hands of conservatives. First the left lost Twitter, and now TikTok? I can already hear the wailing, moaning, and gnashing of teeth from the liberals.

"Trump’s Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says he’s putting together a group to buy TikTok. Later in the interview, he says he speaks with Trump regularly"

Apparently Rumble is also considering purchasing it.

 

[Crepitus]

Which would put yet another social media outlet in the hands of conservatives. First the left lost Twitter, and now TikTok? I can already hear the wailing, moaning, and gnashing of teeth from the liberals.

"Trump’s Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says he’s putting together a group to buy TikTok. Later in the interview, he says he speaks with Trump regularly"

Rename it "Y" and watch it sink.

 

[RhodyPatriot]

congress has done nothing to address the issue with government controlling speech on the biggest social media platforms.

True, Congress has not.

But even the NY Times admits that Biden is getting his ass handed to him in the legal system.

Lengthy excerpt from a far lengthier article:

How Trump’s Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformation​

On July 4, 2023, Judge Doughty issued a sweeping injunction, saying that the government could not reach out to the platforms, or work with outside groups monitoring social media content, to address misinformation, except in a narrow set of circumstances.

The ruling went further than some of the plaintiffs in the Missouri case had expected. Judge Doughty even repeated an incorrect statistic first promoted by Mr. Benz: The partnership had flagged 22 million messages on Twitter alone, he wrote. In fact, it had flagged fewer than 5,000.

The Biden administration appealed.

While the judge said the administration could still take steps to stop foreign election interference or posts that mislead about voting requirements, it was unclear how it could without communicating “with social media companies on initiatives to prevent grave harm to the American people and our democratic processes,” the government asserted in its appeal.

In September, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit scaled the order back significantly, but still found the government had most likely overstepped the limits of the First Amendment. That sent the case to the Supreme Court, where justices recently expressed deep reservations about government intrusions in social media.

Ahead of the court’s decision, agencies across the government have virtually stopped communicating with social media companies, fearing the legal and political fallout as the presidential election approaches, according to several government officials who described the retreat on the condition of anonymity.

In a statement, Cait Conley, a senior adviser at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said the department was still strengthening partnerships to fight “risks posed by foreign actors.” She did not address online threats at home.

The platforms have also backed off. Facebook and YouTube announced that they would reverse their restrictions on content claiming that the 2020 election was stolen. The torrent of disinformation that the previous efforts had slowed, though not stopped, has resumed with even greater force.

Hailing the end of “that halcyon period of the censorship industry,” Mr. Benz has found new celebrity, sitting for interviews with Tucker Carlson and Russell Brand. His conspiracy theories, like the one about the Pentagon’s use of Taylor Swift, have aired on Fox News and become talking points for many Republicans.

The biggest winner, arguably, has been Mr. Trump, who casts himself as victim and avenger of a vast plot to muzzle his movement.

Mr. Biden is “building the most sophisticated censorship and information control apparatus in the world,” Mr. Trump said in a campaign email last week, “to crush free speech in America.”

How Trump’s Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformation

Their claims of censorship have successfully stymied the effort to filter election lies online.

1ft.io

 

[konradv]

Rename it "Y" and watch it sink.

Ah yes, the connection between X and Z!