I love seeing ten tweets about how tiktok is an essential part of resisting fascism and then the app sends out a notification like “dearest lord ruler, let us bribe you for the ability to ignore a law, just name your price papa!”
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Lmao already back and thanking Trump for his help, I’m sure that’ll make it a really good platform for organizing, I’m sure it came back with zero strings attached
I think the problem is that the users are the friends. We can roll our eyes at TikTok being predictably villainous as a corporation, but there isn’t an alternative, decentralized video platform that facilitates international community building around niche topics so accessibly and rapidly.
i haven't heard anyone say it's essential to resisting facism. what we're saying is how it's incredibly obvious that all of the educating and organizing that was happening on tiktok is the reason they banned it. it was just a tool. the REASON they banned it is the problem here.
I do not think enough people were “organizing” on TikTok for them to ban it, like cmon how many times did people on there call for a general strike (and receive tons of interactions) only for it to go out like a whoopee cushion lol
the fact that people were at the very least developing class consciousness was too much for them. i went from everyone i know thinking i was an extremist pre-covid to almost everyone i know agreeing with my views in 2024 - the same people. tiktok did that, that's why they banned it.
Were they developing class consciousness or were they developing a vague set of political prescriptions predicated on them not having a good understanding of things in the world hence making them perfect for rage bait Ala burrito taxi discourse
Maybe you just used it wrong? Or are you just parroting things you've read? Most of the content I engaged with was from very well educated folks, speaking in arenas that they were well educated in. 🤷♀️ and verifying information is a skill most people lack... because our education is trash.
If they provide no sources, yes. There is in fact a lot of junk science, history, and politics books out there. The main difference is just in the availability of more room to elaborate on information and to provide significant sources. TikTok just doesn't have that available.
Important to remember that tools that are good for disseminating information are also good for disseminating disinformation, and organizing can be based on either one.
When I opened the app to see if it was on, I had a bunch of pro-trump propaganda and a few “we went to China to see how bad it is there, but here’s all the good things we found instead” videos waiting for me. Curious.
Everyone has their own agenda. If someone else's agenda aligns with yours, good. Make an alliance. This does not mean that you've abandoned your principles or agenda. At this moment, Tiktok and the left's agendas line up enough for cooperation. Trump's transactional, he was "bought off" in some way.
considering biden also said he's not enforcing the ban, tiktoks message is just straight up manipulative bullshit designed to appeal to those they actually serve and that of course is the oligarchy.
considering they removed themselves under biden, saying trump will fix it, then, still under biden, they came back, praising trump for their return. pretty sure they already went that route. they could have done literally nothing, this was all to make trump look like the hero.
Fair; also, while reading the news this morning, I saw the TikTok CEO attended Trump's pre-inauguration rally yesterday. That, coupled with them praising Trump for his (rather petty) decision, indicates that they, much like all social media capitalists, want Trump in power.
This is transparently attempting to hold Trump to his word and lay blame at his feet if he flip flops again. I don’t see how people are reading more into that…
Really? You don't think it has anything to do with us being lied to and deceived at every opportunity every time we find something that brings us some joy? Why are you so confident that you're right? And how can you be so smug when you have nothing to back your statement up with? 🤨
I had no problem following what was going on in Gaza despite never having touched TikTok. Of course if people relied on it for everything then that's how they would get news. That does not mean there is any inherent value or no alternatives to what it provided
What else can he do, if he wants to have any chance of opening the doors again to our American friends? The real test is if TT resists sale to Musk, Zuckerberg, The Execrable Beast, or any other narcissistic oligarch.
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On the other, I can see TikTok going the route of Twitter under Musk, very easily
It's not a surprise that a corporation does something shitty on itself despite what people in the platform can accomplish