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galangalalgol | on: TikTok goes dark in the US
The reason Trump will reverse it is that it helped him get elected. He said this in interviews already. "It is hard to hate it when...".

It also helped that Hungarian candidate when tiktok was used by Russia to push him...

It should be gone. I wish we would ditch FB too. And SEO. Kill all the algos and let me find stuff via regex.

parpfish | parent | next
I assume he’s also trying to line up a buyer that would be friendly to him
warner25 | parent | next
Regarding Trump, yes. Also,

> Kill all the algos and let me find stuff via regex

I love this. As someone who increasingly feels old and dissatisfied with what computing is turning into, I'm going to start using this along with things like "you'll have to pry local accounts, passwords, and plain text email from my cold, dead hands."

dfadsadsf | parent
> It also helped that Hungarian candidate when tiktok was used by Russia to push him...

That's actually misinformation and narrative invented to support coup by Romanian security services/supreme court to cancel elections. No Russians were involved. TikTok campaign was financed by center-right party but backfired in unexpected ways.

https://www.politico.eu/article/investigation-ties-romanian-...

galangalalgol | root | parent
The linked article doesn't say that, nor does any of the ones it linked to about the eu investigation.