I totally stole that (and tweaked it) from John Gruber’s comprehensive rundown of the gigantic clown car crash that is the TikTok ban/shutdown/forced divestiture.
Maybe Trump can buy it with some Trump Coin. Saw a post of Blue Sky saying that Trump's worth has grown by $56 billion over the weekend and if the coin hits $200, his personal value will be greater that Noel's.
All without creating a single thing.
Please, great meteor, find us and visit upon us your flaming gigatonnage of wrath.
The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act seems to have been drafted because US citizens' data shouldn't be collected by an app that the Chinese government may be able to access by compulsion of law. Instead, the Chinese government should have to buy that data when it's collected by a private company. Is that correct? have I understood this clusterfuck?
Good thing in Australia we have a political class that understands current technology and social media and can produce well-thought-out legislation to protect our citizens (yes I am being sarcastic the ' Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024' is another knee jerk clusterfuck.
i wonder how long the social media app way of communicating will be around for? Say if in 50yrs history books look back on this period and say "oh how quaint and totally nuts it was back then"
The terrifying dystopian alternative is that social media becomes the only form of communication in 50 years time, and they'll dig analogue books out of the rubble of civilisation going "Oh how quaint! They printed text and pictures on PAPER!"
Looks like the Executive Order restoring TikTok for 75 days requires a partial degree of American ownership. If only Trump had someone who knew about buying social media platforms.
I also didn't sign up for TT, partly because I have a millennial friend with ADHD who sends me the best Tiktok videos to watch so I can avoid the distraction vortex, but also the concern about sharing my data with a totalitarian regime, although my accounts on Twitter, Bluesky, Threads, Instagram and Facebook are now laughing at me in Trump.
I was never on TT, having heeded the warnings re. CCP spying, but I've just left FB, X and Ig all bc of fascism and also Bsky bc of legions of rightly frightened Yanx looking down the barrel of a fascist dictatorship. It's been a relief.
Maybe Trump can buy it with some Trump Coin. Saw a post of Blue Sky saying that Trump's worth has grown by $56 billion over the weekend and if the coin hits $200, his personal value will be greater that Noel's.
All without creating a single thing.
Please, great meteor, find us and visit upon us your flaming gigatonnage of wrath.
But wait .. its back. I wonder how much the Chinese government paid Dump?
The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act seems to have been drafted because US citizens' data shouldn't be collected by an app that the Chinese government may be able to access by compulsion of law. Instead, the Chinese government should have to buy that data when it's collected by a private company. Is that correct? have I understood this clusterfuck?
Good thing in Australia we have a political class that understands current technology and social media and can produce well-thought-out legislation to protect our citizens (yes I am being sarcastic the ' Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024' is another knee jerk clusterfuck.
i wonder how long the social media app way of communicating will be around for? Say if in 50yrs history books look back on this period and say "oh how quaint and totally nuts it was back then"
The terrifying dystopian alternative is that social media becomes the only form of communication in 50 years time, and they'll dig analogue books out of the rubble of civilisation going "Oh how quaint! They printed text and pictures on PAPER!"
Looks like the Executive Order restoring TikTok for 75 days requires a partial degree of American ownership. If only Trump had someone who knew about buying social media platforms.
I also didn't sign up for TT, partly because I have a millennial friend with ADHD who sends me the best Tiktok videos to watch so I can avoid the distraction vortex, but also the concern about sharing my data with a totalitarian regime, although my accounts on Twitter, Bluesky, Threads, Instagram and Facebook are now laughing at me in Trump.
I was never on TT, having heeded the warnings re. CCP spying, but I've just left FB, X and Ig all bc of fascism and also Bsky bc of legions of rightly frightened Yanx looking down the barrel of a fascist dictatorship. It's been a relief.