This doesn’t surprise me tbh, tiktok has been used for protests and organizing and that always pisses off the government more than liking china.
No shit.
Call me a hopeless optimist, but maybe, just maybe, the next time they start calling something a security risk, we’ll get less people parroting this same bullshit.
What do you mean, “Deepseek”?
I’ve lived through enough of these fake security panics to know it only ever gets worse
On the one hand, yes. On the other hand, Saddam’s PS2s remain undefeated.
aha! the thing we knew all along
No one with a brain actually thought the ban was because of China. This makes far more sense.
China is pro-Palestinian, so it’s still directly related
A lot of people on these forums don’t have brains, then. Which I agree with.
Bah, could have just as easily been cause someone said something that hurt Trump/Musk’s feelings.
That doesn’t track with Trump unbanning it
Trump is a fickle king, not a rational strategist. Trump unbanned Tiktok because 1. His son Baron asked him to, 2. To make Biden look bad, 3. Because Tiktok kissed the ring and made some back room deals with Trump
He only did that to make himself look good. He was the one who originally popularized banning it in the first place.
Palestine coverage was feared to swing election or make aipac look bad.
It helped win him the election.
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Lol, this comment was legitimately censored for making the joke “Jews… are controlling the media?”
Edit: I thought about it more, then did some quick searching and it actually shouldn’t be a joke.
Didn’t take long at all to find these articles of people being punished in Hollywood for calling out Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/12/7/hollywoods-israel-problem
https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/hollywood-needs-reckoning-pro-israel-cancel-culture
It’s sad that we’re not even allowed to mention how they censor us without being censored. That’s how bad it’s gotten.
Do not use anti-zionism (OK) as a guise for your antisemitism (bad)
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This comment was censored for saying “You’re right. Zionists are controlling the media.”
Lol, this comment was legitimately censored for making the joke “Jews… are controlling the media?”
Yes, antisemitism will be removed even when it’s a “joke.”
Edit: I thought about it more, then did some quick searching and it actually shouldn’t be a joke.
What shouldn’t be a joke?
It’s sad that we’re not even allowed to mention how they censor us without being censored.
We know where “ironic” bigotry tends to lead: to an online space becoming a Nazi bar.
It’s not censorship; it’s content moderation — how hard is it to not make racist jokes on an ostensibly ML forum‽
It is 100% censorship when what I’m saying accurately describes reality.
We’re literally not allowed to say the truth because of censorship.
