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   Dan Gillmor (dangillmor@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 10:58:35 JST Dan Gillmor

   Whatever you think of TikTok -- I don't like it at all -- the ban by the US government, now endorsed by the Supreme Court, is a direct attack on freedom of expression in the United States.

   If you think this very, very bad precedent won't be used to block all kinds of free expression going forward, you will find yourself sadly mistaken.

   A travesty in every way.

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     Quinn Norton (quinn@social.circl.lu)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 10:58:35 JST Quinn Norton

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     @dangillmor "but data and algorithmic manipulation!" Well we could just make those things illegal across the board, but that's not what anyone is after is it? Manipulation and harvesting and selling data is fine as long as American companies are doing it.

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     Nicole Parsons (npars01@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 11:56:37 JST Nicole Parsons

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     @dangillmor

     It's not just freedom of expression at risk...

     It sets a precedent that megadonors get first pick on the pillaging of private companies that fall out of favor with a dictator.

     Forced sales to cronies...
     Jeff Yass
     https://fortune.com/2024/12/09/trump-jeff-yass-tiktok-avoid-ban/

     https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/03/18/billionaire-jeff-yass-may-be-the-donor-behind-trumps-tiktok-flipflop-heres-what-to-know/

     https://www.thenation.com/article/society/how-tiktok-funder-jeffrey-yass-can-clean-up-on-the-apps-forced-sale/

     Larry Ellison
     https://www.wsj.com/articles/larry-ellisons-tiktok-bid-puts-oracle-chairman-back-in-the-spotlight-11601733600

     https://qz.com/1906677/the-tiktok-deals-real-winner-is-oracles-larry-ellison

     Mark Zuckerberg
     https://www.thewrap.com/tiktok-ceo-to-attend-trump-inauguration/

     Steve Mnuchin
     https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-allys-tiktok-plan-sparks-new-theory-1879409

     https://nypost.com/2024/04/25/business/wall-street-and-tech-billionaires-race-to-buy-banned-tiktok/

     1/2

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     kuteboiCoder (kuteboicoder@subs4social.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 11:57:10 JST kuteboiCoder

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     • Nicole Parsons

     @Npars01@mstdn.social @dangillmor@mastodon.social
     
     and Senile Sleepy Joe signed it. All to enable a genocide.

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     Seppo Helava (helava@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 14:29:24 JST Seppo Helava

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     @dangillmor Also a reminder that if, for instance, you build a commercially successful business that happens to compete against one of the oligarchs’ businesses, you can expect them to weaponize government and just take whatever you built. Or destroy it to protect their interests.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 14:29:24 JST Rich Felker

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     • Seppo Helava

     @helava @dangillmor Yes, but these shouldn't be able to be businesses to begin with. I really DGAF about it destroying businesses. I care about (1) the much worse businesses still here, and (2) any possible spillover into censoring non capitalist-seized communities.