• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Gavin Newsom was enthusiastically in favor of forcing the sale of TikTok to US-aligned billionaires under Joe Biden.

    Wonder what changed.

    • FriendBesto@lemmy.ml
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      18 hours ago

      Likely the consortium that currently bought TikTok does not agree with his political bias, where the Biden one did.

      Same with Covid shots, Biden and Kamala were essentially saying that they would not or would hesitate to take “Trump’s Covid vaccine.” Then, a month later they won, and then had no problem pushing it onto everyone because it was no longer “Trump’s Vaccine,” buy their own administration’s. I can’t be the only one that remmebers that.

    • renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net
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      18 hours ago

      There’s definitely some “our team, their team” going on, but this isn’t really the same thing.

      “Following TikTok’s sale to a Trump-aligned business group, our office has received reports, and independently confirmed instances, of suppressed content critical of President Trump”

      This is not a criticism of the sale itself, but of reported censorship after the sale. Make no mistake, Newsom is still on the side of the billionaires. He just wants the billionaires to return to their progressive facade.