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Written by Ethan Zuckerman on 2025-01-18 at 18:00

To be slightly blunter than The Atlantic allowed me to be: the tiktok ban is a protectionist subsidy to Meta and Google worth hundreds of billions of dollars: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/internet-censorship-tiktok-ban/681361/

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Written by gio on 2025-01-19 at 12:49

@ethanz I think Trump will likely reverse the ban or ask DOJ to suspend enforcing the law. He already has wealthy donors that are invested in the platform. I don’t even think he’ll force a sale at this point. He can’t resist looking like a hero to all those TikTok’ers.

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Written by Ethan Zuckerman on 2025-01-19 at 14:27

@stevegio I agree that that's a likely pathway. There's another problem with that outcome - we don't want Congress and the Supreme Court to be so easily overridden by a super-powered executive, even if it leads to an outcome that restores speech. It's a shitty situation on many differently levels.

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Written by gio on 2025-01-19 at 14:35

@ethanz Totally agree. It would be interesting to see if, given that outcome, would the Congress and the Courts actually perform their constitutional duty to check presidential power. The bill passed with broad bipartisan support. Will the GOP senators and representatives stick to their guns on this issue or will they simply bow to the will of the executive branch?

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