Comment by Left_on_Pause on 15/01/2025 at 18:09 UTC

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View submission: TikTok reportedly plans ‘immediate’ Sunday shutdown in the US if it’s banned / The US federal ban will go into effect Sunday without a Supreme Court intervention.

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Kill TY and instagram short form, too. That crack is bad.

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Comment by fnarrly at 15/01/2025 at 19:12 UTC

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That won't happen, though. Meta spent[1] record-breaking amounts lobbying[2] for TT to go away. This was not about spying or foreign influence or anything other than crushing their competition to benefit their own shareholders.[3].

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/facebook-tiktok-targeted-victory/

2: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/29/24144333/meta-record-lobbying-q1-2024-us-government-big-tech

3: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/how-meta-platforms-could-benefit-controversial-tiktok-ban