Subj : Who said it - Trump or ML
To   : MIKE MILLER
From : Mike Powell
Date : Thu Jan 23 2025 09:35:00

>  4 years ago, Trump was one of the most vocal people towards a ban of TikTok.
> But because the CEO of ByteDance, and a bunch of other people who have money
> invested in it gave Trump money, he's now done a complete reversal of that.
> Nothing else has changed.

Exactly.  IMHO, he was not wrong about TikTok initially, either.  There has
been news recently that TT is in trouble in the EU for sending user data
to China, where TT (and all businesses) are partially owned by the government.

That was the initial concern here in the US that seems to have been lost in
the "but free speech" and "livelihood" arguments for keeping it.

> America should NOT be in the business of "owning" businesses that have nothing
> to do with providing public services or running our government. And you should
> not be excited about this prospect, becuase it goes aganst the very tenants of
> capitalism.

Agreed.  That is how China does it.


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