The most ironic thing about this situation is that in his support for TikTok, the billionaire joins Donald Trump, who started this whole process around the Chinese app in 2019, pushing to either block it or sell its American assets to a local company. companies. Now Trump also opposes it.

Musk opposes the bill

Elon Musk made a statement regarding the possible ban of TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, by the USA. He said in a tweet on Tuesday that the law supports “censorship and government control.” Musk has previously expressed his displeasure with TikTok’s addictive algorithm, but this new position generally fits with his so-called “free speech absolutism” (or what he pretends to be by regularly spouting Russian propaganda).

This law is not just about TikTok, it’s also about censorship and state control! If it were just about TikTok, it would only refer to “foreign control” as the problem, but it isn’t.
Musk wrote, referencing a post by Kentucky congressman Thomas Massey who said the “so-called ban on TikTok is a Trojan horse” and suggested the law would be used to further crack down on free speech in America.

But Musk and the Kentucky congressman were confused about the bill, according to Federal Communications Commission member Brendan Carr. He responded to Musk’s tweet saidWhat The proposed law would only apply to apps that pose serious threats to national security based in China, North Korea, Iran or Russia.

This looks like a radical change of tone for Musk. Just a few months ago, he criticized TikTok, saying the app was full of anti-Semitic content and addictive among young people. However, the billionaire rejected the idea that TikTok is controlled by the Chinese government.

I stopped using TikTok when I felt like the AI ​​was probing my mind. I felt uncomfortable. When it comes to anti-Semitic content, TikTok is flooded with it.
Musk, whose social media is similarly full of anti-Semitism, racism, cyberbullying and Russian, Chinese and Hamas propaganda, said the following.

We may be witnessing another attempt by Musk to impose his worldview that big tech companies, the media, and the government are censoring conservative voices. As practice shows, Musk selectively defends freedom of expression and, as a rule, makes more concessions to conservative voices. He has a shameful history of blocking journalists who criticize him on Twitter and isolating Ukrainian users from the Western world.

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Trump is here too

Previously, Musk said Trump was “right” to claim that the demise of TikTok would benefit Meta and “Zuckershmuck.” That’s what he calls something associated with Mark Zuckerberg. Shmuck means “idiot” or “asshole” ). He also says the “real enemy of the people” is Facebook.

Trump also changed his attitude towards TikTok After years of trying to ban the platform, he supports it. Politico reported that Trump had a particularly friendly relationship with Republican Jeff Yass, who recently invested $33 billion in ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns the service.

Considering that the “hunt” on TikTok was once started by Trump himself, it all seems as if he is just trying to “not be like Biden” – and it doesn’t matter what it is, the point is to oppose the current US. minister.

Let us remind you that they want to ban TikTok due to its alleged connection with the Chinese government. According to US lawmakers, the service collects large amounts of information about American citizens by transferring their data. The app is currently banned from being installed on civil servants’ smartphones in many states and many European countries.