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I hope Musk is not allowed to buy TicTok

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Yeah, we used to have antitrust laws in this country.

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Pam, and we used to have a Supreme Court with people who cared about this nation and our Constitution. Now we have only 3 of those justices left, the "liberals." The cons have gone off the deep end, whatever works for them and their donors. Who knows what is really motivating their thoughts about TikTok. I am concerned about our security and have been since I learned China owned TikTok. How is it our courts didn't care to think about this before now, yeah, when fewer people would be impacted?

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Not since reagan messed up the country

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I seem to recall a progressive broke up the monopolies.

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Especially since he has such an in with the Chinese government. He would sell out is adopted country for the power that comes with owning TikTok.

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Susan, Musk is already moving in that direction, only as far as I know, it is to Russia and his buddy, Putin. How is a potential government official allowed to have that "personal" relationship with Putin? That is a security risk, but TikTok is just so much more dangerous, right?

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Because we have no real safeguards against this kind of behavior. The Supreme Court can be bought by the super wealthy and not even have to recuse on conflicts. The president doesn't need to pass a security check and can override the result for anyone else as he sees fit (See: Kushner, Jared, 2016). We're likely to witness how toothless our antitrust laws are if Musk decides he wants to add TikTok to his toy chest. I find propaganda American oligarch-style as toxic as anything the Chinese push out.

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Nancee, and our SC cons get really upset if anyone challenges them on their decisions, something we should be doing all the time, particularly when those decisions work to take away people's rights as lately, they so often do. I blame Johnny Roberts for so much of the chaos. He seems to love it, though he claims otherwise. The lying continues even in the highest court. They should be ashamed of themselves and their behavior, but alas, not! They are supposedly good little catholic boys and girl, and I guess that is true, which is why I left the church 57 years ago, to get away from the hypocrisy and misogyny.

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The Robert's Kangaroo Court needs to be openly and regularly mocked since it seems to annoy the thin-skinned partisan hack.

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Minor correction: "can be bought" should read "HAS been bought".

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George, I think my brain assumed you had said "already bought" because they are as are Mitch McConnell and Mikey Johnson. None of those guys (only 1 woman in the mix), has a single moral compass among them and think somehow Trump will take care of them. He will do to them what he has done to everyone else who has gotten close to his circle, dumped them as soon as they didn't kiss properly or do exactly what Toddler-Trump demanded. They will all fall before him unless they completely capitulate (which is what I expect) or finally decide they have had enough and dump the Trump (which would be a better idea, but takes courage that every single one of them and the rest of Republicans in power all over the country do not have). How truly sad!

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Both accurate. The buying's not over.

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It should be obvious there is no one left to stop musk from "doing whatever the hell he wants."

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Including owning the US Post Office, which Trompe wants to privatize.

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Agree -- I see delivery trucks in my neighborhood from fed-x, ups, usps, and now amazon -- I know how capitalists disdain competition and love monopolies -- I foresee usps going to the highest bidder with promise of monopoly part of the deal.

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Jacqueline, no human being should be able to own more than 1 social media or any kind of media platform. How we have permitted this is beyond comprehension. Musk is evil, plain and simple. He will do whatever he can to wreck our society for his benefit, then move on. It is up to us to stop allowing this insanity.

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Given The Court's decision regarding the personhood of corporations for donation purposes (how con...veeeni...ent!), how long should we have to wait before AI "devices" with distinctive "personalities" testify before a Supreme Court such as this one could evolve into? How long before an AI device is declared able to own something such as a social media platform, "for financial purposes," or "taxation purposes?" We used to say, 'there's an app for that,' now we can say 'there's a movie for that.'

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He would rapidly enshittify the platform, ruining it for those users who have monetized it for income purposes, resulting in essentially a zombie app hosting clones of the far-right on "X"...it what Musk does, full stop.

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On the other hand, maybe if he does, he can have Donald drive it into the ground.

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He seems to be able to do whatever he wants. Sigh.

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Joan, Musk is right in there, getting away with everything with his Toddler-Leader-Trump, and the rest of the Republican toddler playground. They have been getting away with whatever they do for decades and our Supreme Court has grown used to playing in that toddler world right along with them given gifts and bribes and more. The only adults in the room now are Democrats (most Democrats)and some independents and 3 "liberal" SC justices. There are a lot of good judges on our courts, but a bunch who are in that toddler playground too. Why do we want toddlers in charge of anything, and not well-behaved ones learning to be decent human beings?

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Exactly my first thought. What would have been the decision if the owner(s) were American?

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