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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: carranza2 who wrote (210342)1/18/2025 6:58:41 PM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217588
 
Re <<I would enforce ban on TT>> ... 170M Americans disagree with you, most are Trump supporters, and Trump made a promise. Let us see how anocracy works in practice.

Re <<Its relationship with the CCP is real>> ... how real? by ownership, directorship, user base, staffing, domicile, HQ, or what? Once it is listed, depending on where, and whether at the ByteDance or at the TT level, perhaps easier to ascertain the relationship if any.

Re <<Your synthesis of Wikipedia’s note failed to mention Zhang Fuping, who is BD’s liaison with the CCP.??>> ... Zhang Fuping has been given a free-pass by the Trump, and sent his emissary to the inauguration gathering.

Re <<I’d ban any social media owned or related to our adversaries.>> currently the efforts against American owned TT is making Chinese owned Little Red Note great.

Re 170M people and 7M businesses <<TT users will get used to it. Trump is a lame duck starting on 1.21 so no political risk.>> Trump made a promise, and a promise is a promise until made good. Anocracy is a political risk, a big one, especially when practiced in concert with identity politics, and this 'theory' has been proven through multifactorial analysis of civil wars. In any case we shall know today / tomorrow / day after tomorrow re TT. Re Anacracy and ID politics, I was told ...