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by Terr_ 38 days ago
> This reminds me of the TikTok ban that lasted all of twelve seconds.

That timeline has way more to do with the corrupt politicians than consumer behavior.

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Both in the sense that the original semi-bipartisan law should've been ruled unconstitutional [0], and also in how the Republican party turned around and broke portions of that law for months until Trump could ensure the assets were handed to his major donor buddy--and fixing none of the original PRC influence issues. [1]

[0] https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/banning-tiktok-i...

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/19/tiktok-deal-done-and-its...

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I found it interesting that congress never took issue with any other social media platform, and was fine with TikTok once again as well after it was sold to an American owner.

So looks like politicians never had any problem with the addictiveness of social media, they only have a problem when it's used by foreign adversaries and not by domestic companies...

Absolutely no one was running it on "social media is harmful". The policy was overtly that it had to be American owned.
>and also in how the Republican party turned around and broke portions of that law for months until Trump could ensure the assets were handed to his major donor buddy--and fixing none of the original PRC influence issues. [1]

Are you even remotely surprised by that? Honestly.