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So it's official, Tik Tok is suing the US government :) (24)

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The drama continues



Looks like they don't want to give up that easily and decided to fight back.

TikTok just released an official statement in their website, with an explanation on why they decided to sue.

Most of it is just PR bullshit obviously, but I'm really looking towards the outcome of this :

The full statement is here: https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/tiktok-files-lawsuit

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Drama baby, drama

I read about it today as well.

It´s like a real life soap opera.

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LolllllZ.

My wife told me about it and I laughed my ass off. It’s even funnier in print.

Suing a foreign government always works out well.

Imagine if FB, Google, Twitter, etc. sued China for banning them.

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Technically speaking, has a corporate ever won after suing a powerful government? Ironically, despite all the corruption, a powerful corporate sometimes wins against the government, even if the decision has come from the council of ministers. With government decisions that have been enforced by a department or a government official, whoever has more money wins.
Don't know about the US. Sometimes it feels more dictatorial there than a dictator regime.

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I see a stay in TikTok's future. The Executive Order is so overly broad, it appears that it would be illegal for TikTok to even hire counsel once it goes into effect. Typically the courts do not like to see participants frozen out from the system.

Also, Trump has a bad habit of overplaying his hand with the courts and ruining what would otherwise be legal moves (you may dislike what he is doing, but it would have been legal) by make clearly the reason is illegal.

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I for one, would love to see that happening

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Exactly, but it´s always easier to see the abuses on the other side.

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Right. I checked my last post and missed India... I mean I was talking about the corruption and the council of ministers in India. Tiktok is banned for the second time here because it threatened national security. It was banned earlier but made a comeback.

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Ah, I have basically no knowledge of Indian politics, so I'll reserve all comment. I was speaking strictly about the US. I believe that TikTok will get a stay due to the flaws in Trump's Executive Order, plus the fact he almost always makes known his true intentions which he then tries to coach in otherwise legal language in an Executive Order.

If he could stay off Twitter for 5 minutes and not run his mouth, he'd probably get most of what he wanted in Executive Orders.

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Haha, okay. Twitter is all about venting though. So, may not be as useful to us marketers for sales. Twitter is more a customer service thing, which is important nonetheless.

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What I mean is, if Trump could stay off it, he'd actually get more of what he wants accomplished. US Courts give a lot of latitude to both Congress and the Executive Branch, except when they have made it clear the reason is illegal.

So if Trump has said that TikTok is a threat to National Security, they will tend to side with Trump and let him do it.

But if Trump constantly complains about how Social Media is unfair to him, he's being censored, mistreated, etc. and then tries to ban TikTok on National Security grounds, the courts tend to see right through that.

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Ah, gotcha! Politics is a dirty game EVERYWHERE. And so are the politicians.

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That´s so true

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And more news

Looks like more and more companies are entering the race to buy TikTok

First there was Microsoft, then Oracle and now Wallmart... yes WALLMART joins Microsoft to form a partnership and try to buy the TikTok platform

Full article here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeik...e-for-walmart/

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Ah, they are all happy this happened to TikTok and the race to make more money and outsmart the competition is on. Doesn't matter what their roots are.

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My money is on Disney. They’ll buy it and integrate it with Disney+ somehow.

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My money's on Disney as well. It's their demographic. If Microsoft or Oracle buys it, the kids will leave the platform then who knows where else they'll go.

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We have seen what happened to Skype since MS bought it.

To the next best low value app where they can show off.

Important is only that they don´t have to write and to read, that they can make and share pictures or short video clips of themsleves, that they have many "good" filters and that all their friends use the same app

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I think the world is already so global and borders are so blurred that such actions of the American government cause laughter.. we see that some kidults continue to see whose dick is longer without realizing that the world is changing rapidly.. just for me, this is another manipulation under the guise of concern for national security..


So where's the vaunted democracy and rights of US citizens?


Now Europe and Asia should ban Facebook and Twitter in response..

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The ugliest thing happening right now is that a handful of companies have too much control and personal data from various owned apps and companies.

Being in such position they have all the possible leverage one could dream of to do as and when they wish. Even worse they’re deeply involved in politics.

FB and and G are already showing this off. FB’s latest terms of service update, shows this pretty clear.

These jerks have built an empire using user generated content, which btw is monetized with the same users that generated the content, then set arbitrary conditions as it mostly pleases their interest.

I wonder what would happen and how quickly will they react if just 30% of their daily active user base stops using their service for just one week.

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This makes me angry too... without UGC they'd mean shit, and they're cheap enough to not even share their revenue with the content creators... Facebook I mean.

What I personally hate the most though, is how they have the power to destroy entire industries, whenever they decide to do so... maps were a business prior to google maps, so was paid email, navigation... it's evolution partly and it's great for the end customers, but I don't like when it happens too much.

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Exactly! No content from users - no money!

They've centralized quite a lot of things, thing which honestly is a bit scary. I remember map24.com was one of the best before getting acquired by Microsoft. Not that now is bad (the offline version for long trips beats google maps on every aspect), but when you think you're sharing your route data with them is disturbing.

Just a few days ago MS was awarded the contract worth $10B with Pentagon:
https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/4/21...ct-cloud-bezos

Now weird Billy not only has access on personal data from billions of people globally, but also has classified info too, not to mention other things they are currently involved in.

Nowadays these morons have access on everything we do. From the websites we visit, applications we use, places we hang out, food, messages, emails, even who we go to bed with (most probably).

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I hope not )) That could ruin a few marriages... when that data leaks

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I don´t want to start a conspiracy discussion but it´s really interesting to read about DARPA LifeLog and Facebook.

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