this, it's not like biden went to the tiktok server room himself and unplugged it all while eating ice cream (as good as that would have been). the banning of the app basically just kills support for it and if i recall correctly was supposed to stop new users from signing up/downloading it. so it would have just withered away not being able to be updated.  their voluntarily blanking it out is specifically to incite a visceral rage reaction in its userbase and get them to go cry to the government, they're emotionally manipulating its userbase. i dunno if trump can easily just get it back but he just says they'll try to 'work out a deal' to get it back. you know what has been going on the last 250 days? trying to work out a deal. tiktok doesn't want a deal, they want to apply pressure making their teenage userbase cry to their parents to bug their congressmen about it. and for that they should be fucking double-fucked imo, not caved and pandered to. they're hostile and manipulative.
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