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I wrote about the cronyistic TikTok deal, and how it once again shows the U.S. is too corrupt to function in the public interest, despite a whole lot of pretense to the contrary

I'm particularly amused by FCC boss Brendan Carr, who spent FOUR YEARS on cable news complaining endlessly about TikTok privacy and natsec issues now that they've made everything arguably worse by offloading it to Trump's buddies (but maintaining Chinese influence) he'll never talk about it again

the TikTok outrage kayfabe was never actually about privacy, propaganda, or national security, it was about hijacking the profits and influence of a foreign short form social media company our clunky tech giants couldn't out innovate.

Subscribing to Tech Dirt due to this.