Shit, we should also ban insta, fb, and google places while we’re at it.
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2025
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Don't tempt me with a good time.
Actually, be very tempted please! Get 'm!
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The reason we have a Chinese competitor that we cannot directly control is that Meta is buying up every promising US platform and shutting it down. Or just trying to copy it so that the competitor does not get enough users
As if anti-trust law doesn't exist. It is crazy to me nowadays, most tech startup's goal from the very start is to sale to a big tech competitor. This certainly should have anti-trust implications.
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Media headlines that use the word lobbying probably do it so that people don't take up arms. If they were to instead call it bribery, I think a lot more people would take issue with the whole process.
they can't really do that because that would be defamation and they would be sued for it. Bribery is a crime and while it is effectively the same as lobbying from our perspective, one is legal and one is not and a media outlet can't just accuse someone of a crime without evidence unless they want to close up shop
When in practice Corruption is not investigated or prosecuted, nobody ever gets convicted of Corruption, the Media can't talk about Corruption as it would otherwise be defamation, hence the country has no Corruption.
I haven't lived in the US but I lived in the UK and this was exactly how Britain had "no Corruption".
Except the only thing that will be prosecuted, or adjudicated, is the claim of libel entered by Meta, for suggesting their millions are anything other than legal contributions to something or other.
There is a solution, though, staring us all right in the face.
Yeah.
Those of us paying attention have spotted long ago that the Ju$tice System is mainly a tool for violent enforcement of the power of the moneyed and well-connected elites on the majority of the population behind a charade of "rules are rules" and it being just an independent and a fair mechanism for equal application of the "rules defined by Society" to all (all of which is nowadays and in a painlfully obvious way, clearly a bundle of lies).
All it takes is comparing how the Ju$tice System reacts to merelly the peons breaching uneven contracts with big companies or to the occupation of the property of the very wealthy by the poor, compared to how it reacts to violent crime in poor neighbourhoods, to see how their Ju$tice is not in any way form or shape Fair or Just.
Maybe it's less so in some countries and more so in others, but nowhere is it actually fair and independent.
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So what does Zuck do when Trump uses an exec order to stay the ban and pushes Republicans to reverse it?
Algorithmically quell his own cybernetic rage.
It's already back up lmfao
Yep. But this doesn't answer their question. I'm rooting for a Tik Tok CEO vs Meta CEO battle Royale at the inauguration.
Why does everyone think Trumps going to allow Tiktok. He doesn't like China, and Musk is going to push him to ban it so he can buy it.
ByteDance has a lot of money. Trump likes money. Trump's only leverage over ByteDance is allowing TikTok, so he'll do that in exchange for money
Zuckerberg and Meta are much more centralized in the US, which gives Trump far more options in terms of what he can offer them. Trump will give Zuckerberg something else to placate him. Probably lots of cheap H-1B labor
I haven’t seen a comment age this quickly and poorly in quite some time.
If you haven't noticed Trump says a lot of things. He's always talking out of both sides of his mouth. I'll believe it when I see it, we'll see tomorrow. Also, a delay is not overturning it.
It’s back now with a message thanking President Trump.
Which makes the whole thing so transparent considering Trump literally couldn't have done anything as he's still not president yet... The whole thing was a stunt.
Who asked for a 50% stake in the company.
You're partially right. Trump originally wanted to ban TikTok because "China."
However, the platform's influence on younger voters supposedly helped him to win the election, so he now favors it.
No surprise that Trump's personal needs are far more important than real US security.
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Well we knew it had to be something. I mean most of Congress is too old to know what a tik tok is.
They’re just too old for everything. They’re almost part of ancient history.
Tic Tac Toe!
“lobbing”
is this a trusted outlet? at least we can be pretty sure a human wrote it ha ha ha
I think this was less about lobbying and more about bogeyman of China.
“Issues related to voter suppression/interference, political ads and misinformation policies.”
It's nice to see meta have learned from their own mistakes and are now trying to protect ~~democracy~~ profits.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal
This is why we gotta ban TikTok!!!!! \s
I don't know why I do this to myself, but I read through Meta's disclosure
Every single lobbyist I looked at worked in DC before becoming a lobbyist. I knew it happened a lot, but it's really depressing to see
Also, why do these disclosures not require companies to specify how the money was spent? There are only ~20 different lobbyists mentioned, and Meta spent 7.6M in a single quarter
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$7.6 million, pocket change to these chumps. Up the ante!
Sad trombone.
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