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Why does the ban on TikTok matter to so many people?
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this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2025
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It has its bads and a lot of the content is worthless trash, but it's also a really good way to see what's going on around the world from those people's perspectives. You see a lot of stuff that doesn't make it to Reddit or Twitter.
It's a lot harder to be against Ukraine when you can see the horrors minutes after a Russian strike.
The government hates it because they can't control it. They'd rather people only see what the mainstream media says, and not the fact everyone sympathizes with Luigi.
The free speech argument is genuine, despite how much I hate the shady practices of the platform.