How should I know? But you have Biden insisting he won’t enforce the law and Trump promising he’ll stop the ban and make sure tik tok stays. He’s even inviting their CEO to his inauguration. On the other hand it’s tik tok threatening to shutdown now if they don’t fix it sooner. It’s a strange turn of events but I have no idea why USA thinks begging is the appropriate move.

I mean seriously, if you want an answer ask the US government why all the important people like both presidents are begging. It’s not me making this decision.

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Don’t take my word for it. Here’s an article by the rolling stones magazine on it and how all the important people are scrambling to save tik tok. No joke, I’d like someone to explain why all these important people care.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/biden-dems-tiktok-ban-1235239244/

The US won’t block it, but it will be blocked. Tik Tok itself said it will turn off it’s servers and block US ips like it did with India.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/17/politics/tiktok-ban-supreme-court/index.html

So it will be tik tok itself enforcing the ban. Which is hilarious. USA showed all this bravado and now has to turn around and beg tik tok to return. I fully expect in the long run tik tok will be sold to Chinese agent Elon Musk and be turned into the spy apparatus US claims it to be. The whole situation shows what a clown USA is.

Rednote isn’t tik tok. You’ll absolutely be monitored on there. That’s an implicit agreement for all Chinese apps that has Chinese citizens as users. In fact they do what US government keeps accusing tik tok of but tik tok doesn’t do. If your worried about the Chinese government getting your info, absolutely do not use rednote. It wasn’t made for you to begin with. Accusing them of doing what they promised they would do however is a bit strange to me.

That’s China. They censor everything that could be viewed as an attack on something. Regardless of its veracity. It’s something the west doesn’t understand. They’re not censoring to hide something, they just censor regardless.

I’m not sure what your trying to say. Rednote was always censored. Are you talking about Tik Tok?

Here’s a whole list of videos on tik tok about tiananmen with multiple videos showing tankman.

https://www.tiktok.com/tag/tiananmensquare

And here’s niaomi’s tik tok

https://www.tiktok.com/@realsexycyborg

Oh and you probably should look soon. Because a government IS about to censor those posts on Tik Tok. The US government.

That’s the funny part. As they’re discovering with RedNote, Tik Tok wasn’t censored by China, that’s why they had 2, one for China and one for the world which would not follow the same censors. It actually was it’s own entity and did it’s own thing. That was a company decision because they thought it would make more money, and they were right.

Those will stay rumors. Thinking the CCP will wall off Americans shows a complete lack of understanding China. Since as the article noted, if you don’t follow the rules you’ll be banned, there’s no way the government will try to wall off anyone. Hell, China didn’t even want to ban Google. They asked Google to put in the rules that rednote has. Google refused, the firewall blocks Google until they abide by the rules. If Google ever just follows the rules like Microsoft, they’re more than welcome to come back. If there’s any segregation it will be because the server’s are overwhelmed.

*Edit. Btw that’s how bing and linkedin became huge in China until the Chinese found better Chinese alternatives. They never got banned, they got replaced.

That’s not entirely correct. Because man made diamonds have a perfect cuboid structure that rarely occurs in nature, a diamond at the sizes man made diamonds are can be detected. Essentially they’re too perfect at a molecular level. So there are labs that can determine the difference. Though, saying the difference is because man made is better isn’t a great selling point.

I mean joking aside, that’s what this means yes. It’s a common negotiation tactic. It’s like the businessman who comes into a meeting saying he’s never had to sell so the price is going to be very high.

But yes, this also matches up with the joke that whatever Russia says, believe the opposite. Except in this particular case it’s literally part of the art of negotiations. Not the Trump book.

Ah ha ha ha ha ha. USA tried. It failed so hilariously bad that they’re now actively protesting against new rail. There’s this crazy thing, rail needs to be near places people actually want to go. But those places have NIMBY voters, so populated areas won’t get rail. Instead they go to empty parking garages near malls. And then shocker, no one rides. It’s so bad in Denver that they’re using them as a case study to prevent expansion in Utah.

https://www.denverpost.com/2024/12/08/uinta-basin-railway-case-supreme-court-arguments-colorado-river/

Of course she does. All American politicians are Israeli puppets. It’s always been strange to me that this is the case. However, I’ve also never seen an example that goes against the grain. Even Sanders is all about decreasing weapons sent, not stopping.

So they uncovered what was actually being sold to Russia. It turns out it’s cheap toy foam airplanes.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-uses-cheap-decoy-drones-171704105.html

So technically yes, China is selling drones to Russia that they’re using in the war. But what? You want to stop the sales of cheap toy airplanes? Also, think about what they just admitted to. They’re being clobbered by toys.

Lol, yes yes it’s always so peaceful when you prepare weapons and arms. Molotovs as simple as they are are still something you have to prep. If you’re prepping bombs, you’re not going there peacefully. You are the one promoting school children deaths by telling them to attack people with weapons.

Always so peaceful preparing molotov cocktails and throwing rocks at soldier’s heads.

It was terribly one-sided. Some bold spirits threw stones. Others had bottles full of petrol– Molotov cocktails–prepared. But the soldiers reacted quickly. They chased after anyone young, beat them with their rifle butts and kicked them with their heavy armed boots.

https://www.koreasociety.org/images/pdf/KoreanStudies/Curriculum_Materials/LessonsbyTopic/History/The_Gwangju_Uprising.pdf

No, again you’ve shown their constant and repeating violent protests were not successful. Instead they had to have a peaceful one for change. As long as people like you don’t understand that. There will be bodies that keep piling up. Unless you can explain why “democracies” also have violent protests that end with bodies in bags. The violence is pointless, and people like you perpetuate it.

The Koreans were not slaughtered in 1987 and they transitioned peacefully. You don’t know what you are talking about you violent war monger.

And those protests were like the American protests didn’t get anything done. It wasn’t until 7 years later when they simply asked nicely. If anything, you’re proving violence doesn’t work and the best option is to literally simply ask nicely.

Thus, my point about the violent protest being unrelated. It did NOT cause the regime change. I’m not talking about what it’s about, I’m talking about what actually switches the government.

I never said nations don’t have problem. My list of violent massacres in USA proves that. I’m saying violent protests does not lead to regime change as often as a peaceful transition. Your Korean argument proves that as the violent protest did nothing, vs the peaceful one.

*Edit: To be clear, if we study history we find peaceful regime change far more likely than violent ones. BUT people like YOU keep creating violent situations that do not help the situation. If people like YOU stop being violent, maybe we could work towards actually beneficial transitions.

Nice try but you don’t get to argue that a protest over 7 years ago and is unrelated caused the peaceful transfer.

I mean you might as well argue that the blood of Americans were spilled for their freedoms in BLM, Kansas State Massacre, the Chicago fire. Oh wait, those protests massacres happened AFTER USA was a democracy. It’s almost like they’re not related to being a democracy or not and the June protests weren’t part of that massacre because it’s a 7 YEAR gap.

When you don’t know any history perhaps you should read first then comment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Democratic_Struggle

As I said, S.Korea is just one example where peaceful protests brought democracy.

So I don’t know how the Russian/Ukrainian war is going to go. I mean Trump is such a wild card it’s hard to say. But I want to point out that your comment:

that tyranny doesn’t go away by asking nicely. Never has, never will.

Is very wrong. The weirdest thing is you state if you’re paying attention. Well, if you’re paying any attention what so ever, you’ll see that tyranny regularly gets displaced by asking nicely. In fact, in recent history we have South Korea with a peaceful democratic transfer, Taiwan which also had a peaceful democratic transfer, Singapore and many others. And that’s just recent history. Let alone all the Kingdoms that were displaced by democracy in history such as the UK. Heck, the UK still has a monarch and yet run in a democracy because of how peaceful the transfer was. Thailand as well. I could go on, but I think you get the point. In fact one of the MOST COMMON ways to go from Monarchy/Dictatorship to democracy is a peaceful transfer. Obviously that doesn’t always happen, but it’s quite common to simply ask nicely.

*Edit: Actually Ukraine ITSELF was a peaceful transfer from tyranny to democracy. That’s the REASON Putin is angry and jealous of them. I mean you don’t even have to look outside of the combatants to see a peaceful transfer. Which is gone now, but that doesn’t take away that it happened.