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    “It’s okay when a major company does it. For everyone else that’s a violation of the computer fraud and abuse act…” - FBI/DOJ

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      “It’s okay when a major American company does it.” - FBI/DOJ

      Fixed it for you. Guarantee if they found TikTok doing this that ban would be going through today.

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        The TikTok ban isn’t about Privacy - it’s about selling it to Trump’s billionaire backers for cheap. That’s why Truth Social is going public now and “mysteriously” doing so well. It’s leading to a TikTok takeover.

        They took Twitter, already have Facebook, and now are targeting TikTok and Reddit.

        The political right’s biggest enemy over the past 30 years has been the democratization of information. But with the centralization on online activity that’s occurred over the last 15 years, they have a chance to undo all progress we’ve made.

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            Wow. This is comedically implausible levels of cyberpunk dystopia villainy. I can’t believe it’s real and yet am forced to accept that it’s just how things work around here…

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      Banning tick tok is meant to distract us from the lack of a digital bill of rights. That’s what we need, but Google and meta checks cleared so this is what we got.