Quote from: spy100 on August 02, 2020, 08:54:12 PM

Nothing is private this days ... privacy is dead ...

I wouldn't declare it dead just yet, but it's in hospice on a pretty high dose of morphine.

If you broadcast your life on social media sites like FB, Twitter, and all the other ones you can kiss all of your privacy goodbye. It is still possible to live under the radar if you don't have a big internet presence. Now as far as this TikTok thing is concerned, why does it surprise anyone that Trump would do something like this? It's Donald Trump we're talking about for fuck's sake. And frankly it wouldn't bother me one bit if he did ban TikTok, although I'm not sure I'd like the precedent it would be setting.

Quote from: Cnut237 on Today at 07:49:09 PM

It's difficult to know how much of what Trump says at the moment is something that he means to follow through with, and how much is just something that he thinks will sound popular with an election just around the corner.

That is definitely true. I recall him telling America that he was going to send in the national guard to quell the protests in Seattle (when they had that "autonomous zone"), which was followed by no action whatsoever. I'm actually glad he didn't call out the troops, but he lost some credibility in my eyes by barking empty threats.

It's also important to note that Trump can't just do whatever he wants to do, regardless of what he says. He's got Congress and the Senate to deal with, plus all of the other government branches that put checks and balances on his power. It's a damn good thing, too.