Posted on 09/26/2025 1:37:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Oracle founder Larry Ellison keeps piling up wins. After briefly overtaking Tesla's Elon Musk as the world's richest person this month, the 81-year-old tech billionaire secured a spot among the U.S.-backed buyer group poised to take over TikTok.
This announcement comes on the heels of the Ellison's son, David, overseeing a successful August merger between his Skydance Media production company and Paramount Global, which also owns CBS, and which the elder Ellison has a financial stake. The younger Ellison is also said to be working on a bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of CNN and HBO.
Antitrust concerns aside, the politics of the Ellison family's rather sudden rise as media and entertainment moguls has been cause for concern for the left. By the end of next year, 170 million Americans who use Tiktok, as well as the audiences of CBS News and CNN could conceivably fall under the influence of Larry Ellison, a longtime Republican donor who boasts a cozy relationship with Donald Trump.
Following a disastrous 2024 election for Democrats that saw Trump capture every swing state, the White House has interpreted those results as a conservative mandate to overhaul the American cultural landscape that, they would argue, has long been controlled by progressives. The administration has begun this process by targeting the big broadcast networks, which require licenses from the federal government to broadcast over the air. The parent companies of ABC and CBS have each settled separate defamation lawsuits with Trump and pulled their respective liberal late-night hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert off the air. (CBS said its decision to cancel Colbert's show was financial and not political.)
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“170 million Americans who use Tiktok, as well as the audiences of CBS News and CNN could conceivably fall under the influence of Larry Ellison,”
No.... TikTok will collapse. None of the users want a Ellison/Oracle CIA-Mossad product that has an algorithm that has been “reeducated” in their terms.
It’ll be the next “MySpace”.
I just hope his son buys Warner Brothers and fires James Gunn. He sucks. One good movie and he gets the keys to the DC kingdom and shats out the worst Superman movie ever.
There is zero evidence of that.
Do you have a shred of proof that those are connected?
Larry Ellison's father is Italian, so maybe the mafia runs TikTok.
Basically, you think the left is an innocent little lamb, but the Jews are doing everything bad. Why do you protect the left? Maybe you should become a progressive, because they are the ones who see "the truth" about the Jews, and what they are doing?
All the Jews, like Joe Biden, Bill and Hillary Clinton, AOC, Ilhan Omar, Nancy Pelosi, and Marker Warner. And you should have voted for Kamala. She was smart enough not to pick Josh Shapiro as VP. Better to lose with a gentile like Tim Walz, than bring about a member of the conspiracy that might make you lose.
All their those movies sucked before and after James Gunn.
Oh, and also the fact that you approve of a product built by China to attack the U.S. The version of TikTok sold to the West isn’t even legal in China.
Ah, yes, the Jews. Everything in the world that goes wrong is the Jews fault.
I’m a bit leery of Larry Ellison.
After the September 11 attacks, Ellison offered to create and pay for National IDs for every American. No thanks.
We didn’t need or want an internal passport like the Soviet Union.
Deep State controlled opposition.
Which one?
What David does, if he in fact gets CNN, will tell the tale.
Come back in a year and see how well your prediction has aged.
Was responding to a question about Ellison.
Up until there is a change in the administration.
“No.... TikTok will collapse. None of the users want a Ellison/Oracle CIA-Mossad product that has an algorithm that has been “reeducated” in their terms.”
I don’t think he’s trustworthy in the least. Another tech oligarch.
China did not need TikTok to spy on USA.
I mean, they may be taking data and spying, but look it up. TikTok was designed by the to degrade brains and be addictive. I know that sounds weird, but look it up.
I guess you prefered the time when the Democrats controlled the narrative because we did not have access to alternative media.
His son is amassing Hollywood Production companies and he is cornering AI. Perhaps they intend on making movies with CG generation of old actors (or dead actors).
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