Seems like Trump is strong arming a Chinese company into selling to American ownership, and taking a cut of the profits along the way. Shrewd and effective business tactic, but obscene abuse of presidential power to do it.  All bc TicTok users ghosted his Tulsa rally lol.

Yeah, if China wants our data they can do what everyone else has to do and buy it from Facebook.

What TikTok/ByteDance need to understand is that spying on Americans and shopping their data to government(s) is the exclusive right of the American government and nobody else.

I’m not sure how you can say Trump is right in any way, shape or form here.

Nobody, but it’s a good thing. If Trump has to pay a settlement? Great. If it actually goes to court and both have to go through the discovery process? Great. If nothing happens because Trump is basically a king and none may sue a king? Kinda feels that way as it is, so nothing we haven’t already lost I guess.  Might…

It’s like Terry Pratchett said, “Sometimes it’s like watching a wasp land on a stinging nettle: someone’s going to get stung and you don’t care.”

You can’t go wrong with rooting for Giant Meteor. 

I’ve been saying this for ages. Just because Trump signs an executive order doesn’t make it a done deal. There are still laws and due process in your country, aren’t there? Just because Mr. “I can’t say Yosemite” says so doesn’t make it true. In fact history has shown it’s quite probably the opposite.

I’m not sure who to root for in this fight...

Ghee, that sounds painful

In the same vein, China is considered part of Taiwan, because Taiwan is the true China. Their government said so, so...

No country outside of these, recognizes Taiwan as a sovereign state:

Don’t kink shame.

Yeah came here to say this. What actual censorship looks like, instead of, I dunno, making an internal decision to change card art to show less sideboob.

Salty Says: It depends on how it is affecting your tips.

Kinky

The trend towards open kitchens must curtail that a little. While people may want to watch Gordon Ramsey yell at people on TV, nobody wants that happening 10 feet from where they are eating.

Ask the Salty Waitress: Is it OK for me to take a two-by-four to my coworker’s head for slowing down the line?

See, gamers: this is an example of a developer backing down because of actual problems brought on by censorship.

I also think it’s weird that this game was taken down. It’s not like Region Locking is new or anything.