He still can. This doesn’t change that

This very article is about a change in the privacy policy, indicating a change in what was collected. The CCP/ByteDance has zero reason to have been previously tracking immigration status of US users

I highly doubt the CCP was tracking immigration status for US residents

I’ll never understand why Americans would prefer TikTok be US owned than China owned. What is China going to do? Propaganda is the worst they can realistically do. The US government can send ICE agents to arrest, beat, and torture you, in your home, without a warrant

I’m about to watch the video, but just want to state my thoughts after reading the article:

Video shows several agents wrestling the man to the ground and shooting him multiple times

This is the only information the article states. Their passive language suggests to me the sequence of actions is unclear, but probably that while wrestling him, he was shot before being fully restrained

Now to watch the video and find out if the wording is propaganda

2 notes:

1. That shooting is so much worse than the wording would suggest

2. I didn’t realize the article was in a feed format. Explains why it was only 1 sentence

I’ve been using Proton for years, 100% would recommend

That being said, I have had to use my gmail a couple times over the years because some sites do not accept an email address unless it’s from one of the top few email providers. It’s fucked

They’ll just shoot you

Then Kristi Noem will make an address telling the world how you were a domestic terrorist who threw boiling oil at brave ICE agents just performing their duties

Pam Bondi will direct the justice department to investigate your spouse, parents, children, and any others they can

Trump will say you were evil and deserved death

Half the country will be outraged that you were killed while defending your own home from a clearly illegal ICE raid

The other half of the country will say, “you were a domestic terrorist who threw boiling oil at brave ICE agents just performing their duties”. They will say, if you did nothing wrong, why are your spouse, parents, children, and others being investigated? An innocent person wouldn’t be related to so many criminals under investigation

They will conclude, “you were evil and deserved death”

As soon as you shoot one, they’ll be calling it in. There is no winning in that scenario

If ICE shows up at your door, demanding entry, you have no recourse. The law no longer protects citizens in their own home

Which is exactly why they would make sure it never reaches a jury. ICE will ensure you do not live to present your self-defense claim

That’s really the crux of the issue. The law doesn’t matter when they’re going to kill you before you see the inside of a courtroom

He’s actually doing something. Giving up the home he has lived in for a long time

How does that make him a pussy?

If he stays in the US, he would continue paying takes to the US government. By leaving he is taking away tax dollars

What benefit is there in him staying? What could he only do from within the US?

they fired thousands of people right away to offset the cost of paying old Jim here

Can you substantiate your claim?

Meta has tons of cash, so it seems unlikely they would need to lay off thousands to pay for him

You and Trump agree on that one

I strongly disagree. Taking his businesses and tax dollars away from the US is the most impactful individual action he could take

He can speak out against Trump much more freely from NZ. If he stays, he’s more likely to face retaliation for speaking out

What is he going to do to fix the regime that he can’t do from NZ?

Also keep in mind he’s Canadian. That makes him more vulnerable to reprisal for speaking out, but it’s also not his country to fix

There are relatively easy paths out. If you’re young enough, Canada offers a working holiday visa program

I was able to save enough and do it while working as a line cook. The most expensive part is physically moving

We should be celebrating other people leaving. It hurts the regime.

Would you prefer he stay in the US and continue funding this regime?

Trump cares about money and power. Taking away some money is about the strongest message a non-politician can send. It also doesn’t stop him speaking out, or funding opposition. He can still do everything else

The only real result is that the US is losing his tax dollars and businesses. That’s what you’re complaining about.

That’s probably the one area where he comes off most as a douche. He’s notoriously demanding to work with

He also, earlier on, had a history of less safe practices

But I’d put him as one of the few wealthy people that actually created something others can’t. His movies are a creation of his own. Not the result of inevitable scientific advancement

OpenAI/ChatGPT was the result inevitable scientific advancement. The game changer was a publicly published academic paper (by a Google researcher), not anything Sam Altman or OpenAI did. Same can be said about a lot of modern products that created our wealthiest billionaires

He can still speak out just as well

Money is also the #1 thing this adminitration cares about. Cameron taking him money, businesses, and most importantly tax dollars to NZ and Canada instead is the most impactful individual action he could do

The most effective thing he can do it take that tax revenue out of the US. Now New Zealand and Canada will be reaping all the benefits of having him there

Canada has a working holiday visa with the US

It’s an open work visa for 1 year, and it renewable. Cost a few hundred between passport, paperwork, and other fees when I did it

It’s available to all Americans without a criminal history, if they are below the age of 30 or 35 (I forget the exact requirements for each cut off)

You don’t have to be rich. I was working as a line cook when I saved up enough to move