Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER TO POSTPONE TIKTOK BAN BY 75 DAYS"

Episode Date: January 21, 2025

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnalyticIn this segment of Notorious Mass Effect, Analytic Dreamz dives into the complex dynamics of President Donald Trump's recent executive action that delays the ban on TikTok for 75 days. The action was signed on his first day as the 47th president, aiming to provide a window for negotiations that could safeguard national security while keeping TikTok accessible to its 170 million U.S. users. Analytic Dreamz unpacks the Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which mandated the ban unless TikTok is sold to an American or allied entity. We explore the reasons behind the delay, including Trump's concerns about the timing of the law's enforcement just before his inauguration, and his interest in a potential 50-50 joint venture between ByteDance and a U.S. buyer. The segment also covers TikTok's brief 14-hour shutdown, its restoration, and the emotional rollercoaster experienced by influencers like Shay Sullivan. Furthermore, we discuss the resistance from Congress, with Senators Cotton and Ricketts advocating for complete divestiture, and the potential buyers like Frank McCourt and Kevin O'Leary who have stepped forward with significant bids, though without the crucial algorithm. Analytic Dreamz examines the broader implications for TikTok's future, the legal and financial risks for companies involved, and whether this move by Trump was politically strategic. Join us for a thorough analysis of these developments and what they could mean for the tech landscape and user privacy.Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Here, as you know, we have been fighting to protect the constitutional right to free speech for the more than 170 million Americans who use our platform every day to connect, create, discover, and achieve their dreams. On behalf of everyone at TikTok and all our users across the country, I want to thank President Trump for his commitment to work with us to find a solution that keeps TikTok available in the United States. This is a strong stand for the First Amendment and against arbitrary, censorship. As we've said, TikTok is a place where people can create communities, discover new

interests, and express themselves, including over 7 million American businesses who are in a living and gain new customers using our platform. We are grateful and pleased to have the support of a president who truly understands our platform, one who has used TikTok to express its own thoughts and perspectives, connecting with the world, and generating more than 60 billion views of his content in the process. To all American users, thank you for making our TikTok community such a rich and vibrant states for surprising and delighting us every day. Rest assured, we will do everything in our power to ensure our platform thrives as your

online home for limitless creativity and discovery, as well as the source of inspiration and joy for years to come. Thank you. More to come. Hi, everyone. It's show here. analytic dreams video on spotify to see the video along with the idea because i swear you cannot make this stuff up tick tock just put out an official statement from the official tic tock

top tick tock profile right these people said an agreement with our service providers tic talk as in the process of restoring service y'all want to know who they think give a second Okay. We thank President Trump for providing the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties providing TikTok to over 170 million Americans in allowing over 7 million small businesses to thrive. It's a strong stand for the First Amendment and against arbitrary censorship, we will work with President Trump on a long-term solution that keeps TikTok in the United States. Now it gets better, ladies and gentlemen, because you can't make this stuff up, right? So let's go from that statement to what Trump had to say.

And as of today, TikTok is back. Mm-hmm. Almost like he brought it back. So, you know, I did a little TikTok thing. We have a guy. TikTok Jack, he's a young kid. TikTok Jack. And we hired this guy, and I went on TikTok.

Can you believe what I'll do to win an election? And we went on TikTok, and Republicans have never won the young vote, the youth vote. They win a lot of votes, but they never won the youth vote. We won the youth vote by 36 points. Ah. So I like TikTok. You know what, I ain't gonna lie to you. That's a great explanation.

That man basically told y'all, it's for the love of the game. I don't love TikTok. I love being in office because not too long ago, because this makes the whole situation even funnier. Because it wasn't too long ago that Trump introduced the idea of a TikTok band. Don't believe me, listen to the man himself. Talk about TikTok. When I wanted to disable TikTok three years ago,

I was met with opposition. from rhinos, Democrats, and everyone else. Opposition. We actually went to court in an effort to stop me. We're looking at TikTok. We may be banning TikTok. We may be doing some other things. There are a couple of options.

But a lot of things are happening. So we'll see what happens. But we are looking at a lot of alternatives with respect to TikTok. We gave them until September 15th. After that, they got a close shop. Mm, not close shop. We're looking at TikTok.

We're thinking about making a decision. We're going to be watching the hearings today very closely because there's no question. TikTok is one thing that we're doing. And we just, I don't know, maybe I would have done that anyway. I don't know. It could have been affected by. All right.

So obviously you can see that Trump is the one that introduced the idea of banning TikTok. So why is that so significant? Well, ladies and gentlemen, guess what? You would have thought it was Avengers endgame the way. America was snapped away from TikTok and we just magically ended right back up on the app now how does that work well essentially TikTok actually took away its services in the US and shut down for at least oh approximately 14 hours on Saturday night and with that you know they voluntarily shut down so hopefully i don't think that the US did this by any stretch of the imagination and

what happened is TikTok just like they did with you UMG just like they would do with any other company that play plays ball like or plays hard ball like this because if you don't know the whole UMG versus TikTok fias skill I covered on my platform you know shameless plug if you type in TikTok analytic dreams all my coverage of that will pop up but with that being said TikTok and UMG were at odds to the point where they took away all the UMG artists from the TikTok platform so it wasn't just government going at um It wasn't just the government going at TikTok.

Before that, it was TikTok versus UMG as. Try to see if I can find it. Where is it at? TikTok. I can't find it my own algorithm. Okay, TikTok, Universal Music Group. Oh, yeah, it's literally typed out, but it's not. I just put UMG, my fault.

Okay, so UMG all the way back in January 31st, 2024. I covered this on my platform, Universal Music Group versus TikTok. and they took all the artists from ticot you know why because ticot is a pivotal player in today's society when it comes to every single app so umg looked at ticot saw they was getting too big for the britches as far as the quote you know and they took all the musicians away from it but the biggest gangster in the industry which is taylor swift she came out and said you know what if you don't put umg artists back on a TikTok platform i'm gonna do the same thing that i did the scoot abroad which is weaponized my fan base for a greater cause which is why umg end up striking a deal with tictock and

coincidentally that deal as far as the ultimate uh stance that they had of or against ticot it suddenly didn't hold that much credence because now the uh gangster the industry told them to to return all the UMG artists to TikTok. And guess what? Lucian Grange did just that. So not only did TikTok defeat UMG, but now it seems like they're going to defeat the United States government,

because it's not like they was going to do it in the court of law in the United States, right? Basically, they called the US's bluff by voluntarily shutting down. It's supposed to shut down on Sunday. They volunteered, they volunteered, They voluntarily shut down TikTok for 14 hours on Saturday, potentially helping with their stance of, hey, we'll actually take our services away from the U.S. We don't need y'all.

So with that being said, that's why the wording of this is so interesting how the owner of TikTok basically said Trump said that we will be okay to deliver services to the U.S. And we want to be penalized because they was basically like, hey, we're just going to take it down. We're not going to divest. we're not doing any of that we're just going to take it down took it down early just to let you all know that we stand on business and now the u.s is like no we was just bluffing you can put it back up we'll just work out a deal and postpone the band-aid so so they didn't think that ticot was going to take it all the way right so now that they're back up trump probably talked to him about long-term options as far as uh owning ticot 50-50 as i believe he says that right here

the youth vote uh i forget what he says it but anyways he said somewhere where he wanted to to have a 50-50 split, Trump proposed a 50-50 joint venture between bite dance and an American buyer as a possible resolution but didn't clarify whether it was satisfied Congress, which to be honest, if you want somebody to divest, that's not any type of split. You know, that's basically them giving their assets and resources in the US to you, which is very interesting. Let me just leave you like that. Trump also claimed that TikTok played a role in engaging youth voters during his election campaign. So I'm not going to lie to you.

I think it's a pretty fair reason to flip-flop. If you're the reason that TikTok is about to get banned, but now you're advocating for it to stay in the U.S. And you simply tell the public, he literally told us, it was because the youth voters were voting Democrat, but this election, they voted Republican. And if you don't know, in other presidential elections or higher power selections,

they basically cater towards the people who voted for them that's how it's been since the beginning of time the way you get into office the people who voted and put it you and put you there you have an inclination to help them out before getting to the other problems that the people who didn't vote for you um i forgot what i said but basically helping people out who voted for you takes precedence over helping the people who didn't vote for you right and whatever problems they're going through so it's not i'm not saying this right it's just saying that i understand that i understand why Trump just completely turned to 180 as far as the

TikTok situation. Now when it comes to that, the law still requires bite dance to divest TikTok to an American buyer. So it's not Trump type of verbiage in this lawsuit. The law

is requiring bite dance to divest to TikTok to an American buyer, but bite dance has resisted selling, especially it's valuable, very valuable algorithm. I keep telling you all. That's all they want.

They just want to know how in the world are you doing such a great job at promoting independent artists when the major machines have ran the game for since its inception? That's the main thing that TikTok is great with, helping independent artists and businesses, right? That's why even the owner of TikTok in his video, as far as it coming back, he basically said that TikTok helps out a lot of small businesses, which basically can attribute to independent owners right so tick talk helps out a lot when it comes to marketing and the tool around that system so that's basically what they want they are wanting but as far as a divesting and being resistant to divesting senators like tom cotton in arkansas and p ricketts in

in Nebraska, they oppose any extensions basically demanding full divestiture, divestiture, divesture, no, because it's an eye in the middle of that. I think it's divestiture. Okay, I messed that up, whatever. To sever ties with China. And then with that being said, of course, Frank McCourt's group is willing to buy TikTok assets without the algorithm all that's interesting why would you buy something with most important asset you don't want it doesn't it doesn't make sense to me whatever uh kevin o'leary's group discussed the app's future with uh trump i believe that's the guy from shark tank if i'm not mistaken uh Elon musk was also reported as a potential buyer but has denied the claims and then when it comes

to ticto's algorithm is obviously as most important asset like i always lay out whenever i talk about the music industry. TikTok, if you don't know, with any small business. If you're not using TikTok as a promotional platform, you are behind. And that's as simple as I can put it. So anyways, companies hosting TikTok, Oracle, Apple, Google could face fines up to 5,000 per user and legal challenges under the act. But of course, they're basically bluffing.

They got the bluff called by TikTok when they voluntarily shut down Saturday when the day was for Sunday. And guess what? The U.S. was like, hey, we was just joking. We still want to do a deal, but we actually don't want to ban you right now. We're just going to, we're just going to think about it. And we're going to postpone the ban. They don't want to ban TikTok.

They're just trying to force TikTok to divest, and they don't know how to do it. They don't know what tactic to you. You know how in every spa movie, when somebody's not giving it up and then they find that one thing to make them talk, that's basically how the U.S. government is treating TikTok right now. either you give us the U.S. portions of TikTok or face a ban. And guess what? They called the bluff. They're like, you know what? We're just going to shut down services in the U.S. early.

And U.S. basically was like, you know what, let's just postpone it right quick and just come up with actual solution. So now I think the 50-50 joint venture, I think that's going to be the most pivotal. But like I keep saying, U.S. wants the algorithm. them i don't think it's the privacy they could care less about your privacy tictox doing the same thing instagram same thing twitter same thing facebook is doing and they're doing the same thing taking your data selling it to other companies how do you think these tech companies run the world so ticot's do the same thing that they're doing they are just hating on the algorithm and once they figure out the algorithm i think

they'll stop hating but until then they're going to completely hate and ask them to divest or come into a 50-50 joint venture. But with that being said, click my link sharing my bio. Let me know one of my social media is. What do you think about TikTok's resurgence and us being Thanos snap, but now we're back on the TikTok planet, right? What do you think about that? And what was your

biggest takeaway from this whole fiasco?