"China keeps the algorithm": Critics attack Trump's TikTok deal

11 duxup 4 9/17/2025, 1:06:03 AM arstechnica.com ↗

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bix6 · 3h ago
> one member designated by the US government.

Why does the board of TikTok need a gov member? Is Meta going to get a gov chaperone too? And Oracle surely needs one as well.

Is the gov putting out a call for board member civil servants? Like where does this person even come from?

duxup · 3h ago
Same reason they put a guy at CBS as a "bias monitor":

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-fcc-cbs-ne...

They want their guy to make sure things go their way / people say the "right" things.

phs318u · 2h ago
k310 · 3h ago
The party of laissez-faire capitalism is now into "let's interfere", with government ownership, presence within companies and of course, dropping the hammer on "unpatriotic" speech, a kind of Amended First Amendment.

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