"China keeps the algorithm": Critics attack Trump's TikTok deal

> one member designated by the US government.

Why does the board of TikTok need a gov member? Is Meta going to get a gov chaperone too? And Oracle surely needs one as well.

Is the gov putting out a call for board member civil servants? Like where does this person even come from?

Same reason they put a guy at CBS as a "bias monitor":

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-fcc-cbs-ne...

They want their guy to make sure things go their way / people say the "right" things.

The party of laissez-faire capitalism is now into "let's interfere", with government ownership, presence within companies and of course, dropping the hammer on "unpatriotic" speech, a kind of Amended First Amendment.

10 Small Steps: Executing the Fascist Playbook [0]

The Fascists’ Playbook [1]

[0] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/10-small-steps-executing-the-...

[1] https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/05/08/the-fascists-playboo...

Oracle doesn’t need one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32596903