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Hopefully it falls through. It’s pretty clear what’s going on.

Since October 7, 2023 there has been a significant lobby towards getting TikTok banned because of pro-Palestinian content. Famously, during the 2024 Republican presidential debates, Nikki Haley said “We really do need to ban TikTok once and for all and let me tell you why. For every 30 minutes that someone watches TikTok every day they become 17% more antisemitic, more pro-Hamas based on doing that.”

When it did get shutdown for a brief period of time, everyone went nuts, so Trump kept delaying the ban over and over. Then steps in these US investors, led by Larry Ellison: in 2017 he donated $16.6 million to the IDF, the largest single gift in its history mind you.

Whoa, it should be bigger news. I too was under the impression that it was a done deal, with Larry Ellison coming in to mop the floor.

It would be so funny if ByteDance and China continued to successfully mock the US in this silly posturing.

Are they claiming that the US president lied? Say it ain't so!