What MySpace and other social content networks taught us was that most of the value was when young people treated them as outlets for self-expression. That’s what made those places new and cool. Once the sites got corporatized, they gradually degraded into irrelevance.

Guess we’ll see.

Did anyone honestly expect anything good to come from the TikTok deal?

Maybe this shitslurry of a deal will stain the platform with enough GOP stink that even the most brainrotted kids will leave it behind for less foul smelling alternatives

Everyone just looked the other way while Trump and his cronies repeatedly ignored deadlines and hammered away at the transfer.

I’m so tired of this blatant corruption.

Welcome to the era of media that cannot die.

Tiktok US deal; this is just for the US users. Tiktok global doesn’t change.

Essentially the US just siloed all the US users together and cut them off from the rest of the world and they’re about to find out just how little of the US were on Tiktok.

Of course it is a shitty and shady deal. What did you expect from a government-backed deal?

Ellison needs to be thrown in prison when this nightmare comes to an end