This guy is absolutely a grifter and playing both sides so he ends up with "the winning team", don't fucking trust his ass.
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2026
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Speaking as a Californian I assure you none of us here believe a fucking thing that guy says he is a total douche nozzle.
Well, why did you think they forced bytedance to sell the US arm to a joint venture controlled by his chums?
Apple forced an update on iphones that auto-updated TikTok, which now has mandatory reporting of your geolocation (including SIM card and GPS info). This geolocation sharing can't be turned off in Settings like all other apps. It is greyed out for TikTok.
You think this is all coincidental?
No way, for real?
Have a link for that? That is crazy if true.
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-new-privacy-policy/
https://piunikaweb.com/2026/01/23/tiktok-privacy-policy-update-january-2026/
Side note: tomsguide is now horrifically hard to read.
Man, I really hope TilTok crashes and burns now. It'd be so fuckin funny if they went through this entire acquisition to have users completely abandon it.
How the fuck is that even legal to force opt in on location.
Google has gotten in a lot of shit for not properly letting people control that before and delete histories.
fReE sPeEcH dOeSnT aPpLy tO CoMpAnIeS
"Legal" is now (more) dependant on political loyalty than it is actual jurisprudence.
Legal is whatever the fascist party leadership decrees.
“Apple”
“Forced”
No, TikTok pushed out an update and you had auto updates turned on.
Go to Settings > Apps > App Store to turn this setting off.
More info here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102629
There’s probably something similar on Android devices as well.
Gavin Newsom was enthusiastically in favor of forcing the sale of TikTok to US-aligned billionaires under Joe Biden.
Wonder what changed.
$$$
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.
I'm pretty sure under Biden, it was a matter of Chinese control outside of US government control, not bringing it under US billionaires specifically. Now it's a political instrument of corruption and control, which is something different.
It was the exact same motivation under Biden, they just had the self-awareness to know that they needed to pretend.
it was a matter of Chinese control outside of US government control
TikTok was controlled by a private company based out of Singapore, with investments from a host of international funds including both the US and China.
The "China is controlling our internet" narrative was always bullshit fear-mongering, fully disjoined from the actual business structure. What TikTok enjoyed that Facebook and YouTube and Reddit did not was a sufficient distance from US policymakers such that TikTok's policies weren't dictated by Western oligarchs.
not bringing it under US billionaires specifically
That's exactly what Biden (and then Trump)'s forced sale intended. Bring the US branch of TikTok under American control by awarding it to exclusively American financial interests.
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.
I was barely paying attention back then, things didn't seem so dire at the time.
I've seen plenty of tweets reporting that even remotely using the word Epstein is enough to get you flagged.
That must be a real headache for anyone who knows someone with the last name Epstein, even before you get to people who have that name themselves.
That's the name of a huge consulting firm that my company works with. I've been hearing it for years. It's weird every time.
It's royally stupid.
I mean what did you expect from an organization called "TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC"? It literally has "US Digital Service" in it's name.
In before he’s on another right wing podcast apologising and saying it’s false.
The crazy thing is that was on HIS OWN PODCAST
newsom has a pondcast?
Not really. There is a right wing podcast with a rotating host of fascists and Newsom as the only guest where they just dog walk him.
Apparently this is global. What's happening to America is coming soon to your nations. Because the people playing The Game have no loyalty to nations or humanity. To them we are simply tools to be used for their advancement.
We all know war is coming and it should be genuine humanity vs all, world wide. The surveillance and dystopic technology is already in place. It's probably already hopeless... We know the goal for america that will then expand to other nations. That is new money, digital currency and or tokenized programs for allowences for food and goods, facial tracking, and digital tracking, everything logged and surveileved by ai as well as ai powered policing. Meaning there is no freedom and it will be illegal and impossible to live outside of this new "matrix".
This is the current goal and we know that evil is winning the race to get there. It's a rush to finish line because the winner will own the globe and all of its people. What's going on with ice and immigration is just a tool for them to trick the people into allowing these technologies. People are disposable to them and are easily written off. The dystopia is already here.
For anyone seeking info about tokenization and the digital changes I recommend watching some Whitney Webb talks. But remember don't get wrapped up in following others ideas as if they are rightious, always think critical and think for yourself.
Anyway... I saw it once and now I can't unsee it.
Do we have any actual evidence or is this hearsay?
No shit Sherlock. Were solid into this as normal now.
Remember when democrat related keywords were filtered January 2025? Yeah, "oopsies" said Meta.
You have any legal teeth of that accusation, Newsome? Otherwise it's in the ignore bin with all the other grievances.
it’s in the ignore bin with all the other grievances
2026 has been a long year.
Tired of the lies yet?
And now because trump et al have been screaming for years that other tech companies have been suppressing right wing content the conservatives will claim turnabout is fair play or some other bullshit.
Also almost 2 in 3 americans is using that brain rot? We're fucked.
Let's just share the news please.
Gavin Newsom's presidential campaign paying to insert his name in headlines should not be shared.
Are someone’s TikToks not trending anymore? 😆
There, there little guy. Why don’t you stand up your own blue sky server?
And I'm going to bring the NEW OWNERS of the App on my Podcast to DEFEND this Situation with ZERO Pushback!
-ALSO Gavin Newsom!
No shit Genius! China is 100% more democratic country than USA right now. R.I.P. USA!
Okay, I get it that many people are not happy with the current administration but to claim what you just claim tells me that you know nothing of China's actual political structure and how it relates to its citizens. The USA as a whole, is still wah better than. The CCP.
Like the West recent 1984's policy pushes both in the USA, and Canada, and Australia, Germany, And the IK are literally just coping the current CCP playbook.