I don't really use TikTok that much, but I find it fascinating that our government is on the verge of banning an app for national security reasons that are still unclear in the same week that Meta, the largest social media company, says it's now fine to hate LGBTQ people and call us mentally ill.
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Now decipher enby for me?😆
Pure & simple.
Musk is selling X as the only true source of news.
When things you say make number go down, reverse course.
No instead she went for maximum fund raising, and now Trump's only prison sentence is a 4 year presidency.
Facebook, Google, X, Instagram, Snapchat, Yahoo, Slack, and YouTube are all banned in China. This isn't unusual and Trump tried to ban Tik Tok himself during his first term. The outward desire to do this is political, they are all on board.
Rich people bought our politicians and they helped sabotage the rest of the government.
Seems like the idea We the People run the government is essentially propaganda.
We also need simultaneous actions. Protests busy the police. They plan for days and spread out resources.
Kinda makes it hard for them to also be across town.
Inability to compete.
And if you didn't think it was a good thing, the orange stain wants it to be reverted because he will probably be able to buy it with his buddy musk.
Living in a post-truth world isn't going to turn out well.
TikTok owned by Chinese are collecting users' information, including military personnel and government workers, to spying us and could blackmailing many of 170 million American tiktok users.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tiktok-terrible-day-supreme-court/tnamp/
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tiktok-terrible-day-supreme-court/tnamp/
Yet we are not military gone yet.
… time to end legal propaganda disguised as free speech… Psychological Warfare is NOT free fucking speech .
Also, you can't make me believe you care about national security when DJT isn't even back in the oval office yet and is causing global chaos, but you're doing nothing about it.
It is about controlling the narrative.
China doesn't think this is a bad idea they started banning ours years ago: Facebook, Google, X, Instagram, Snapchat, Yahoo, Slack, and YouTube are all banned in China.
It could be about competition but Trump tried to ban it too back in 2020.
BTW Charlotte, it breaks my heart that you and other transheroes are subjected to such institutional hate.
Genius 🤯
No one should be physically threatened, though. Hating those who hold hateful ideologies? Absolutely.
Those guys only look like decent people in comparison.
Republicans deserve to take what they dish out.
Do you see the problem?
You can call gay people mentally ill, but not religious people.
1. It was a non-partisan issue, both parties agreed TT was a threat.
2. Why would the US allow TT when China makes US owned social media illegal?
You incels are really struggling these days
And that way just in the last weeks - the trans handy ma’am did lives and raised millions
Also TikTok is not owned by China, but international share holders, American included.
And if China really wanted to spy on us they could have done it all along. They make most of our electronics. They don’t need TikTok.
At the same time, yeah, they own more than 50% your ignorance and bias is showing.
China monitors our children on an intelligence spectrum.
Regardless of the lies he spews all the time, Trump tried to ban Tik Tok during his first term too. Opposition to this is political, everyone is on board.
The US created & funds Israel.
The US govt *hates* the fact the truth is still leaking out on TikTok. They want this leak plugged.
THIS is why the ban. It is pure evil.
I am not Palestinian. Nor Arab. Nor religious.
I’m a human with a conscience, the opposite of Netanyahu.
It’s sickening. The US govt continues sending arms & money to Israel.
Palestinians have nothing but their land. And Israel is erasing them to take that.
It’s Palestinian voices on TikTok. And UN voices.
You can’t fake the devastation and horrific scenes of war violence they show.
ALL hospitals now bombed by Israel. Children missing limbs, bloody babies.
NONE of this is shown by MSM. It’s buried, on purpose.
Watch a US doctor talk..👇
🧵
Genocide is being committed, and the US government is funding it.
Gaza is around 50% children.
Israel says they’re hunting Hamas, yet it’s mostly women and children killed.
Hospitals bombed, doctors stripped & tortured.
Israel is evil.
The US is complicit.
And know that it has continued every day since.
https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS6HNEbC8/
https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS6HFJsg5/
https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS6HFeFFY/
https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS6HFdvVM/
What we're doing isn't just not unusual but China already did it to us years ago.
https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/systemic-censorship-palestine-content-instagram-and
And Musk does the same on X
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/02/10/719833/how-elon-musk-caved-in-zionist-lobby-allowed-palestine-censorship-x
As I said at the start, TikTok is the only platform that I’ve seen the full extent of the truth of Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians.
I get these videos on my FYP.
1) Bans it in 5% of the world population
2) just makes people use a VPN.
what do you think of rowan atkinsons take on free speech?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUezfuy8Qpc
He went so far as to appoint his new CEO a Trump stomping Republican!!
The US government cares because the owner of an app not made in America can't be leveraged to control the narrative.
Like, do you realize Temu and Shein are Chinese controlled? Do you care about them too?
That same data can be purchased should China want to. You think Meta is going to say no if someone wants to pay them for the data?
It’s not an issue of China taking data. It’s an issue of the US government not being able to control the narrative of a social media app.
China doesn't allow American social media in China. We should not allow Chinese social media in the US. For trade reciprocity reasons alone, honestly.
Dumbass.
Clearly the have the same idea.
Good times.
Much of US hatred toward China is based in propaganda we wrote about them.
Their government sucks. It does genocides. It oppresses people and steals their labor. Funds proxy wars. Puts down protest.
And... we do all that stuff too.
There is no comparison.
TikTok has been proved to be tied closely to the CCP, specially with the narratives that the chinese government want to impose to different countries, it's part of their own soft power line of elements that they use globally.
So, I think it's pretty neat that TikTok gets banned.
A thread on Twitter blaming the ADL and AIPAC for the threat of the ban on the site's US operations is also proof that the site has propagated pro-Palestine voices.
@ducugavril.nafoforum.org @lukel.bsky.social
Unfortunately, you also got it correct about houthis especially...
https://x.com/5149jamesli/status/1877777956224844015
the harm they keep trying to accuse Tiktok of, Meta and X just do normally.
This is really more of a business agreement with US social media than it is a repudiation of ByteDance.
The govt is getting rid of US competition and stifling protest all at once
I understand your meaning though. It's hard to judge countries, as individual people. We're not all going to agree. Doesn't mean we can't support each other. ❤️
We have to support them rather than the mainlanders.
They are the True China.
And they fought for democracy since 1948!
And SCOTUS has repeatedly said that's okay in other media.
‘Gosh I hate that tik toc is banned! Wherever will I go to form communities to talk about being divided, fed disinformation, and having to deal with stupid trolls who are misinformed by, checks notes, tik tok
Dems were are so scared their own people and "chinese propganda" they handed the election to an actual fascist in many ways.
Not to mentioned rhe 7 million incomes being lost
My issue is that it isn't just TT that does that. Twitter, IG, Facebook, and YouTube do the same. If we're going to regulate this stuff, it has to be across board, not app specific
Well... I guess that doesn't work.
And, because it needs to verify your identity, people can to be accountable to their comments.
Regardless of his lies now, Trump tried to ban Tik Tok the 1st term
(There are only 350 million USians if the rest of the world chooses to ban them in their countries)
Tik Tok is an issue because (allegedly) young adults between 18-30 are getting their news exclusively from Tik Tok which is feared to be able to be manipulated by the Chinese Govt.