Public sentiment regarding the TikTok ownership deal is overwhelmingly negative, characterized by skepticism about governmental motives and fears of censorship, privacy violations, and political corruption. Many commenters believe the deal is politically motivated and perceive it as a potential catalyst for increased control over social media content. Users express a willingness to abandon the platform if it becomes a tool for propaganda or corporate exploitation.

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So, the US will get one app, the rest of the world a different one? Seems like there will be a lot more to unpack from that kinda throw away line...

m00nh34d

Tiktok are getting paid to exit the US market, while Oracle gets to use their name to set up a new app that nobody will use

Art of the deal

cafuvola

Soooo... US is getting a dedicated social media app controller by the government (at least partially). Where have I seen that...

Also, Oracle 🤮

AkodoRyu

So TikTok in the US will be fully controlled by Trump allies.

JessumB

&gt; including a US gov member


Lol. So a propaganda minister just like companies in Gyna?


US is so cooked 

Cold_Specialist_3656

Ellison and his kids already bought CBS and Paramount. They're in the process of buying CNN and Warner Bros. Now Tik Tok. All or our media will be controlled by a few people.

Shit_Bird33

I guess TikTok is now US state controlled communication and media. They really are copying China.

Prematurid

ARobertNotABob

Oracle’s share price boomed recently. 

Feels a smidge like insider trading. 

hraun

A US gov member??? Isn’t this just as bad, if not worse, than the screaming about China’s govt having access to user data?

Sea-Flow-3437

This is going to fail because of the new app requirement.

Lyion

lol  new app.  there goes the user base and value

Angryceo

There's no way users switch over. These influencers with millions of followers are going to revolt when they have to start over.

oakfan05

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shinyquagsire23

Propaganda machine managed by friends of the regime.

DZello

theoneandonlypatriot

Weren't they warning us not to switch to Red Note when the ban was originally thought to happen because it was *exactly* like the app they plan for us to switch to now? A government controlled and fed social media app?

originalcrisp

Haha the US is fucked. 

Why would anyone from the government be assigned to the board of a social media app?

I can’t believe Republicans like to bend over and enjoy being fucked in the arse out of all of their privacy and willingly help along all the propaganda to come.

Naive_Confidence7297

GREAT time to just delete the old app and never download the new one.

jpiro

Remember when the TikTok ban was first announced way back when the concern was that a foreign government, the CCP, was using it to collect data on US citizens?


We have come to a full circle. Instead of the CCP, it’s gonna be the US government that will use it to collect data and spy on its own citizens lol.

PanzerKomadant

So TikTok will be controlled by The Felon and his fascist regime!

CancelOk9776

So the 136 million US users will have their own app to feed them GOP propaganda and MAGA videos? How long before there is another non-us app that all the people younger than 40 migrate to, 6 months? A year? I will wager the US Tik Tok will be a failure by 2028.  Everything Trump touches dies.

Raven_Photography

For a conservative administration, I am seeing a lot of federal government involved in everything these days. Is this party even sure what they stand for anymore?

Fridaykevin

legendz411

This free market capitalism is really confusing.

Qubed

Guys, this is what China does

Congrats r/Conservative!!

Matt_Foley_Motivates

Jdonn82

touuuuhhhny

The best thing Americans can all do with this is wait for the sale, then don’t use it.

creggor

Perfect mouthpiece to spread neonazi propaganda. The "cool kids" will leave for whatever app that replaces tiktok, and the current regime's target audience (the "follower" types who are easily manipulated and not socially connected enough to move to the new cool spot) will be ripe for the brainwashing.

SuperSecretAgentMan

derpholeloophole

This will be used as a propaganda tool for Trump

ziggyjoe2

After the Chinese great firewall, I'm afraid we will soon see an American Greater firewall come true.

danque

chester-12

This explains the jump in oracle stock. Sounds like insider trading?

korodic

Kinda explains why oracle popped last week?

AdviceNotAskedFor

“Will require users to shift to a new app”

Oh so TikTok is dead dead then? Getting people to migrate to new apps is as easy as herding cats in a rain storm.

MYO716

For any US users worrying about losing TikTok after this, just get a vpn and log in from a less oppressive country.

whelmed-and-gruntled

We’re about to be unseen levels of misogyny and racism…

MisuCake

So we will never have the same TikTok as people outside of the US and will have an entirely different algorithm pushed by cronies of trump. Cool cool cool cool.  So they can stomp out dissent and push their agenda. And people will be too stupid to delete it.

Eternium_or_bust

Does this mean that TikTok users in the US will be isolated from the global community, having a separate app like the Chinese version (Douyin)?

vsratoslav

Hard pass. Instant delete account and app.

jairumaximus

So that explains some of the oracle jump.  those in the know already jumped on

cookus

gtrocks555

Mr_Hassel

Ahhhhh! THATS why Congres people have been loading up on Oracle. Boy are they expert legal/tech/analysis experts

lostsailorlivefree

Da_Stable_Genius

I, for one, find this delightful news: Oracle is where technology goes to die.

DaGoodBoy

Mark my words: this will go down as one of the biggest wastes of money in history

Sativatoshi

So now we know why Oracle did a sudden spike. Insider fucking trading.

Affectionate-Listen6

So in short it will just be another media tool used to solely support trump.

AffectionateAd7980

How many stocks did Oracle just gift to Trump and his cronies?

My question is, what happens to businesses outside of the US who are specifically targeting people in the US on TikTok? Is it now even more impossible to try and grow a US-based audience from outside of the US? I live in Australia, and our main market is in America. So does that mean I'm not allowed to access the US audience anymore on TikTok?

Ok-Candy-2157

Is it just a coincidence this news would come out today and my views are absolutely horrendous? 

Apprehensive_Owl6228

So we can use Tiktok and use US based TikTok?

Laroxide

I dont see any incentive to download an app for the government approved tik tok. This is just a way to kill tik tok like they killed Twitter. Truth social, the video version.

Honest_Ad5029

Hey google, another Zionist takeover?

Names tied to the TikTok/US-consortium reporting and their public connection to Zionist / pro-Israel giving (brief):
	•	Miriam Adelson — clear, well-documented pro-Israel philanthropy and major Trump donor.  ￼
	•	Jeffrey “Jeff” Yass (Susquehanna / SIG) — publicly linked both to investment stakes in ByteDance/TikTok and to donations that have funded pro-Israel groups and right-of-center foreign-policy causes per investigative reporting.  ￼

Reported consortium members (listed in major news coverage of the TikTok deal) for which I did not find clear, widely reported ties to Zionist philanthropy in the same way as Adelson or Yass (i.e., public reporting ties these firms/figures to the TikTok deal, but not to documented Zionist/pro-Israel giving): Oracle / Larry Ellison, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz (Marc Andreessen &amp; Ben Horowitz), KKR, General Atlantic, Susquehanna (→ Jeff Yass).  

And…China keeps the algorithm. Nice. (s)

Melodic_Show3786

Banning TikTok in the name of ‘protecting us from China’ smells less like defense and more like a power play — Washington and Jerusalem swapping foreign influence for their own control and narrative-shaping—well played.

So Oracle stock went up 20% in the last month before this was announced?  Seems totally legit.

Wu-Kang

Is there a way to have the non USA version of TikTok on our phones if we are living outside of the USA when this happens? Does switching appleid to Canada help? Or having a different appleid based in a different country get around this?

SUMMONAH

im confused how this will work? will we keep our old accounts and stuff?

CombinationWitty1079

feels like itll be one dragged out slow decline and in 10 years we'll all have moved on

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Way too cheap. Meta's currently valued at $1.9 trillion. There is no way TikTok is 1/136th the value of Meta. Musk bought twitter for $44 billions, and it is less valuable than TikTok. Literally art of a deal by Trump

iLov3musk

That’s clever. Trump is sticking it to their old owners by setting a low price gifting it to an American company he favors and the govt will be able to collect a massive tax payment on the delta in value.

Captain_Ahab2

How does one execute an executive order for a private business sale? Lol

Noobphobia

Is that something the President is supposed to do?

I don’t recall that was a duty or expectation of the office

celtic1888

"The new version of TikTok will be controlled by a seven-member board of directors made up of cybersecurity and national security experts, six of them Americans, according to the White House."

Yeah,what could possibly go wrong

doomeddeath

Owner by Larry Ellison with Rupert Murdoch on the board. The propoganda train is about to go full steam ahead.

Shapen361

Larry Ellison now owns like half of all media lol

alovelyhobbit21

freexanarchy

Gotta make sure that misinformation and propaganda is at their disposal

reapersarehere

Again, he cant do this by executive order. This is coercion. Trying to force a private company to sell itself to the government so the government can use it to manipulate its citizens. This is fascism in broad daylight.

Slap-Toast

"Along with Oracle and its cofounder Larry Ellison, other investors include the private equity firm Silver Lake, media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan, and the CEO of Dell computers Michael Dell."

  
That's going to be a really really great Social Media site.  I'm sure they won't at all pull an elon and turn it into an old white man right wing dirt bag site within 6 months.

PuzzleheadedTrade763

Instead of Chinese propaganda, now we'll get right wing propaganda.

LeftHandedGraffiti

Tiktok has already been flooded with right wing bullshit and race baiting bots for the last year. 

I joined tiktok to get away from the vitriol of Facebook and watched it slowly become the same thing.

TheCapnRedbeard

I’ll be surprised if TikTok engagement doesn’t fucking divebomb after this.

nethereus

Already deleted my TikTok because the algorithm is going to be all AI generated BS produced by bots that control what the populace is exposed to as evidenced by China, Russia, North Korea, Philippines, and already picking up major steam in the US and other nations for control. 

Anything that doesn’t align with fascism will be filtered out as if it doesn’t exist.

[Great explanation if you have a few minutes](https://youtu.be/Tsb1I7hqaJ4)

ahemawkward

"Along with Oracle and its cofounder Larry Ellison, other investors include the private equity firm Silver Lake, media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan, and the CEO of Dell computers Michael Dell."

How did they decide who is allowed to invest?

somewhat_brave

woohooguy

So much for small government. Let business blossom! Not use it all to co from the narratives

new_nimmerzz

That's ... That's not how an EO works.  TikTok is a private company which I believe china has part ownership.  Only if they agree to US taking ownership in some capacity can we do anything.

Big_lt

This is all intensely stupid. 

A god damn mobile app and look at all that's happened. 

The US is just dumb. On so many fronts....dumb as fuck.

kon---

Is this a done deal? Seems like this is just a executive order and is only a "important procedural step"

vriska1

Suspicious-Call2084

What if they just say no? An executive order isn’t a law. They could just ignore him and continue on with life.

joe9439

That's not how executive orders work...lmfao murica is such a disgusting joke on humanity.

DarthDork73

The propaganda arm of the US government gains a hold of the most popular platform for the youth.  This is about extending their power grab into the future by controlling what teens are exposed to.

RustyMongoose

Forget cheaper groceries or healthcare, Trump's priorities are make money, that's it

ynotoggel19

And the moment the new app goes live I uninstall. F that

bucketman1986

I made a TikTok debunking Mmr misinformation and tried to pay to promote it. It says it cannot promote the content as it was misinformation! Sooooo yeaaaa. Our social media looks like it will be selective.

syphern

Can we start calling his "executive orders" what they are: Dictats. You know, like the root of the word Dictator.

We no longer have a functioning democracy (or democratic republic if you wanna nitpick). Congress is not co-equal, they have abdicated. Supreme Court is compromised. Trump rules as a dictator. 

USA is cooked

marvborg

&gt; Along with Oracle and its cofounder Larry Ellison, other investors include the private equity firm Silver Lake, media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan, and the CEO of Dell computers Michael Dell.
 
It's being sold to the billionaires Dell (of the PC company Dell), Murdoch (Fox News), and Ellison (Oracle).
 
Government seized assets and transferred them to individual billionaires friendly to the ruling party with no public process or oversight? Am I wrong about this? I'm not seeing much outrage.

Circuit_Guy

Underpaid23

Republicans: Keeping the government out of business since never.

jgilbs

Put this special needs piece of shit in prison already.

Gh0st_Pirate_LeChuck

Dude wtf is this straight up communist behavior. Fuck the people who voted for Trump, fuck the people actually telling Trump what to do. This shot is beyond ridiculous. We can’t feed our own citizens. We can’t go to the doctors. We can’t afford to fucking live. This helps no one. Except the right. It helps them indoctrinate kids. The thing they accused the left doing for decades, except the left “indoctrination” is just fucking FACTS. If your political ideology is challenged by FACTS it’s not a fucking ideology it’s a fucking cult. GTFO of here with that bullshit.

OhioIsRed

Social media will eventually have to be decentralized, or each country should implement its own. While the US is concerned about Chinese propaganda on TikTok, the rest of the world is tired of the right wing hate speech on American social platforms. There is a growing concern for data localization in the EU and Asia , and a couple of major legal lawsuits will also drain these privacy-intrusive social media companies out of existence.

LbiyVFmn

So many distractions, so little Epstein files

TenInchesOfSnow

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