The shittiest possible outcome is what the Trump admin is all about.

Republicans obviously take majority responsibility for this turd of a deal and the corrupt shifting of TikTok ownership to Trump’s buddies. But it can’t be overstated what an own-goal supporting this whole dumb thing was for Democrats, who not only helped Trump’s friends steal partial ownership of TikTok, they saber-rattled over a ban during an election season where they desperately needed young people to vote.

As I’ve spent years arguing, if these folks were all so concerned about U.S. consumer privacy, they should have passed a functional modern internet privacy law applying to all U.S. companies and their executives.

What MySpace and other social content networks taught us was that most of the value was when young people treated them as outlets for self-expression. That's what made those places new and cool. Once the sites got corporatized, they gradually degraded into irrelevance.

Guess we'll see.

Did anyone honestly expect anything good to come from the TikTok deal?

Maybe this shitslurry of a deal will stain the platform with enough GOP stink that even the most brainrotted kids will leave it behind for less foul smelling alternatives

Everyone just looked the other way while Trump and his cronies repeatedly ignored deadlines and hammered away at the transfer.

I'm so tired of this blatant corruption.

Welcome to the era of media that cannot die.

Of course it is a shitty and shady deal. What did you expect from a government-backed deal?

So will Americans have their own great firewalled tiktok then? Wondering about how content will be shared between the US and the rest of the Anglosphere

Ellison needs to be thrown in prison when this nightmare comes to an end