I guarantee this is part of the deal they’ve worked out. “I’ll grant you the extension, but you have to shut down, and you have to make it clear to all 170 million users that I’m the one who can and will save you.”

Now that TikTok has officially gone dark, I’m re-upping my post from a few days ago to remind folks that this praise for Trump is wrong.

Still astounded how people think that the government force-closing a social network that's literally used by 170 million people in the US is just fine or even good.

It would not surprise me if they go after VPNs next.

They tried this already: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RESTRIC...

This is so good!!! I love seeing people stumble into a new passion 🥰

💣💥

*sigh*....I should call them.

i am never going to let anybody forget that trump was the one who began the rhetoric around a tiktok ban in the first place. he is not the hero he wants us to believe he is. #tiktokban #fascismhasenteredthechat

Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.