TikTok unbanning: Accolade and Overreach To recap: The law banning TikTok went into effect yesterday. Just a few hours later, the service was restored, with a gushing message praising our glorious leader-to-be shown to all upon logging in. This is unnerving for two reasons. For one, this law was passed by the Congress, and then upheld by the Supreme Court.… Read More
The TikTok KowTow Challenge Over the past sixteen hours, TikTok has engaged in the ancient Chinese practice of prostration known as 叩頭, usually romanized as kowtow . . . virtually, of course. On background, a law took effect today in the US, banning TikTok. As written, the law would take effect 270 days from the day it is signed… Read More
Crypto Firms Pour Millions into Trump Inauguration Fund As the scramble for big business to shower Trump shower Trump with money to curry favor with his incoming administration, crypto companies including Ripple, Coinbase, Kraken, Robinhood and Circle have made seven-figure donations to Trump’s inaugural committee since Election Day. The crypto-currency industry is no stranger to lobbying. It has already heavily funded a Super… Read More
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew Tries to Keep Pace with Trump As we’ve noted, Trump picks his stances by the direction green pieces of paper are blowing in the wind. As a law banning TikTok is coming to fruition, we should reiterate he was critical of the social media app as a first-term president. He even attempted an executive order to shutdown the platform. But come… Read More
Have a Coke and Get in Single File Coca-Cola has presented a special-edition bottle of Coke to the returning president. While it’s been an on-going tradition of theirs present incoming presidents with a commemorative bottle of Coca-Cola, this instance still indicates appeasement for two reasons: Apparently Coca-Cola sees fit to put that little bit of unsettled history into a bottle and set it… Read More
Meta to Drop Fact-Checking Program Because It’s ‘Too Politically Biased’ Variety is reporting that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and others, is dropping fact checking because it is allegedly too politically biased. Of course we’ve all heard the expression that the truth has a liberal bias. I am not sure that’s true so much as conservatism, and especially fascism, has a falsehood bias.… Read More
TIME MAGA-zine Kisses the Ring Yesterday, Donald Trump was named TIME‘s “Person of the Year” for 2024. That means he is now a two-time member of a distinguished club that also includes Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Vladimir Putin. TIME Magazine characterizes the qualifications for Person of the Year as “The individual who, for better or for worse,… Read More
Frenzied Silicon Valley Orgy Continues Continuing the Tech Trump Bukake, OpenAI (ChatGPT) Sam Altman came forth with a $1billion donation to the Trump Inauguration Fund. He joins the likes of tech moguls Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Benzos in normalizing the fascist president-elect.… Read More
Zuckerberg wants to play in the Mar-a-lago Clubhouse too! After having banned Trump from Meta social platforms (Facebook, Instagram) the first time around, Mark Zuckerberg is the latest to kiss the ring. During his campaign, Trump threatened to punish Zuck and Meta. But now, likely in the wake of Elon Musk riding shotgun to Trump, Zuckerberg is hopping on the appeasement train. He met… Read More