Would you rather a Chinese-owned TikTok or one run by a consortium of Trump-supporting billionaires?
That’s the choice Australia is being asked to consider.
The Trump administration has outlined that a proposed deal for TikTok to remain in operation in the United States would transfer the control of TikTok’s US operations to a US company that will have seven seats on the board, with six filled by Americans. Donald Trump has suggested a consortium of US businesses, including Larry Ellison’s Oracle and Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch’s Fox Corporation, are involved in the deal.
 
- They don’t have to think about it at all. The answer is don’t use fascist propaganda machine. So fucking simple. - The children yearn for the fascist propaganda machine! 
 
- Rupert and friends have done far more harm to Australia than China 
- deleted by creator 
- If I liked short-form video, which I have not been very impressed with, I’d probably watch YouTube Shorts rather than either. - Dan Supernault has been hard at work making an open source, AGPLv3, soon to be ActivityPub Fediverse-linked shortform video service called Loops. 
- Youtube shorts are generally considered the worst of both worlds. - Most creators don’t actually understand the medium and Youtube screws up their own algorithm between forcing shorts on people but also basing them off of long form video watching. 
 
- China! The GOP are the worst evil. 
- Or just don’t use tiktok 
- ¿Por qué no tampoco? - ¿Por qué no ninguna de los dos? - My and google translate’s spanish sucks. Thank you. - Ha, no worries. 
 
- No elijas ninguno de los dos. - Noeh! Lijas ninguno de Los dos? - Si! Lijo ninguno! - Noeh…escojiendo lijas:  - Noeh! Ya no the cojas las lijas! Que no te arde la verga? 
 
 
- Porque no menos que nada? 
 
 
- You could choose your own interests, and block both. Just saying 
- Have they tried no TikTok for a change? 
- Neither! Kill social media! - That’s already in the works. 
 
- The US government or the Chinese government… I’m actually not sure which I trust more at the moment. - I’d say China. Not because they’re inherently better, but because they at least seem to be relatively stable and run by people who appear to be sane. - But really I’d just rather not put myself in any situation where I’d have to trust either of them. 
 
- Give me China any day 
- I wonder what Canada will do. join the US version or stay with the Chinese bytedance - “When Canada becomes the 51st state they they will see the light” 🫲🎃🫱 - Fuck off with that. Not at all funny. 
 
 
 












