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I wish but seriously the dumbest shit ever. China is not spying on your oafish american ass they literally could care less.

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[-] POKEMONGOTOTHEGULAG@hexbear.net 93 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The dems woke up and were like "The active hand in genocide isn't enough. We got to alienate even more young people."

Dems should ban kids from calling me cheugy

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 43 points 8 months ago

Dems should ban kids from calling me cheugy

This isn't as far away as you think and we're pretty much there in the UK and Germany where "Somebody called me an asshole on facebook after I announced the project start for "Turning the local skate park into a snake pit in which to throw all unruly children" has somehow become a national emergency

[-] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 40 points 8 months ago

"cheugy" will soon appear in DHS bulletins on domestic violent extremism

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[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 90 points 8 months ago

It’s not about spying it’s about corporate theft. US can’t stomach the next big growth platform being owned by a Chinese company. A TikTok ban is a gift to meta/google as it would basically force a fire sale of that division and nobody else would have the capital to buy it.

If they pass the ban the Chinese gov should buy it from douyin and shut it down. The salt would pour freely

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 89 points 8 months ago

Nah I think the best thing for the Chinese government to do would be to direct Tik Tok to leave the US market. Put it on Huawei app store or something and watch all the zoomers learn how to sideload apps.

If Tik Tok leaves the US market it'll still be a huge social media player in Europe and the rest of the world. That would be an American soft power nightmare - a global platform that Americans are blocked from influencing on by their own laws.

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 66 points 8 months ago

I hope that’s the case but I can see China allowing it to be bought by an American company and doing nothing about it.

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 44 points 8 months ago

It sucks this is what's probably going to happen because it's the worse of all options.

Damn you China for actually being level headed and thinking with long term strategies instead of doing something funny in the short term.

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[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 37 points 8 months ago

That might happen, yeah. I don't want to come off like a "trust the plan" type, but I do like the saying "Americans player checkers, Russians play chess, Chinese play Go".

Let the Yanks smile as they yell "King me!"

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[-] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 52 points 8 months ago

TikTok without Americans is a dream come true. I hope it gets banned for the sake of the rest of us lol

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 60 points 8 months ago

Chinese government should buy it and just exclude the American market.

All the kids will get vpns in 48 hours and how much America sucks ass will be the main kind of content on tik tok.

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[-] Blottergrass@hexbear.net 88 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

We should criticize israel's genocide a lot on facebook so that can be banned to. Free the boomers from mindjail.

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 90 points 8 months ago

You can't. Facebook supresses the shit out of Pro-Palestine content. And Facebook is cutting edge on AI moderation -- It's really hard to fool the automation for very long.

[-] sexywheat@hexbear.net 67 points 8 months ago

Yeah Al Jazeera actually just released a documentary on this yesterday. It is systematic.

[-] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 54 points 8 months ago

Youtube has a foreign propaganda tag on the video, lol

[-] disposable_cracker@hexbear.net 37 points 8 months ago

Artificial Intelligence Jazeera kelly

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[-] Frank@hexbear.net 65 points 8 months ago

You can never tell what the rules are, but content about palestine seems to be high risk for getting zucc'd. Plus only ancient people are on facebook.

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[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 56 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'm sure that's part of the issue here, it's way easier for the us to censor us-owned platforms

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[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 87 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Literally just banning it so now China has to pay Facebook a nominal fee for the data.

I genuinely hope this causes young people to radicalize. They've been asking for a decade for somebody to do something about them being murdered by the dozens in school and after doing nothing they're going to ban the social media site young people use after allowing Facebook to do the same thing the whole time under the guise of "protecting children".

It'd be hard to come up with a more effective way to tell them electing dems doesn't accomplish anything good.

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[-] Comp4@hexbear.net 80 points 8 months ago

I support the Zoomerian Jihad

[-] lapis@hexbear.net 40 points 8 months ago

is that a motherfucking Dune reference?

[-] HexbearGPT@hexbear.net 76 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Old people scared of china, and banning tiktok because of it, can be traced directly back to leaded gasoline brain poisoning, several studies have confirmed. brainworms

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[-] sourquincelog@hexbear.net 73 points 8 months ago

"concerned citizens are contacting their representatives to not ban tiktok. This is a clear indicator that they are addicted and being manipulated, so we must ban tiktok"

What prevents the intelligence apparatus from controlling tiktok content the same way they control ig/fb/twitter's content? It seems to me that they're very concerned with tiktok's ability to influence public opinion (ex: Gaza), which is part of why they want it banned.

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 61 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It seems to me that they’re very concerned with tiktok’s ability to influence public opinion (ex: Gaza), which is part of why they want it banned.

This. It's always about controlling the eyeballs of the chattel; and right now, the State sees a need to corral the young. Because again, yankee genociders can't compete on their own merits. It's pure protectionism and propaganda control.

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[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 53 points 8 months ago

Lmao I don't think I've seem a more radicalizing comment in a long time.

Next time somebody says if you dont like something the only acceptable form of activism is to civilly contact your representatives show them this comment which basically boils down to "we've received a bunch of comments asking us not to ban tik tok which really highlights how important it is that we abn tik tok."

What's stopping them from using the same playback in the future.

"A bunch of people called me and encouraged me to support universal Healthcare which is just proof universal Healthcare is a Chinese psyop meant to distract us from the real work of legalizing child slavery."

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[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 65 points 8 months ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68517607

The BBC coverage of this is insane. Tiktok is uniquely hypnotic and the youth of today are experiencing reefer madness from this foreign seducer:

Staffers to other lawmakers on both sides of the aisle also reported hundreds of calls to their offices, from app users young and old, who did not have a clear idea of either who or why they were calling.

A spokesperson for Dusty Johnson told the BBC his office had received calls from people who were very upset, as well as "some people who are asking kindly if TikTok is going to be banned, and some have said TikTok wouldn't let them on the app without calling their [representative]".

"I am deeply troubled by reports of young people calling Congress, threatening to commit suicide or otherwise harm themselves," Mr Torres said in a statement to the BBC.

"The iron grip that TikTok has on the minds of young people is a profound public health hazard."

Callers range from teenagers to the elderly, and most are "really confused and are calling because 'TikTok told me to'", one Republican staffer revealed.

Florida Congressman Neal Dunn's office told the BBC it has received more than 900 calls from TikTokers, "many of which were vulnerable school-aged children"

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 72 points 8 months ago

TikTok is literally forcing Americans to participate in a consultative democracy. This is the worst nightmare of any gop or dem staffer lmao.

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 60 points 8 months ago

Texarkana Congressman Chestinauld "Tater" Ford-Walmart III was set upon by a gang of youths outside his family's personal bowling alley. Once he was cornered, they opened their mouths simultaneously to emit a loud static and a disembodied voice whispering violently, "The Future Is Now, We Are The Dark Sunrise." Then they all started twerking, unamericanly, forcing the Congressman to flee for his life and hide next door in his family's personal Bible Study Hall & Golden Corral.

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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 49 points 8 months ago

Wow the evil Chinese mind virus has infected the youth

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 46 points 8 months ago

my son used to be patriotic but now he does china all day. i told him "its time to say the pledge of allegiance boy" and he called me a dang 白鬼 because tiktok told him to.

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 48 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'm on a discord group tht has a lot of zoomers and maybe a few alphas, and they're suddenly interested in how laws are passed. This is a huge opportunity to radicalize

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 46 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Tiktok is uniquely hypnotic and the youth of today are experiencing reefer madness

There needs to be a "reefer madness" phrase just for Tiktok.

[-] AutomatedPossum@hexbear.net 38 points 8 months ago

I was inclined to say "satire is dead when BBC news are like a carbon copy of a Kelly cartoon with the labels edited out", but then i remembered the labels are always the best part and that this means that actually, it's the news that are dead.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 59 points 8 months ago

It's actually illegal in China to say "Chinese Communist Party - CCP" you HAVE to say CPC otherwise a small drone will KILL you, very handy in identifying Chinese infiltrators in Burger King.

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[-] homhom9000@hexbear.net 57 points 8 months ago

It's funny because lately my tiktok feed is full of AI voice overs, people trying to sell some crap, and viewer farming channels. Every 10-15 videos I get some watchable content and maybe 1 explicit Palestine video in a 30 min session, eventhough I follow political accounts.

[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 38 points 8 months ago

I barely open TikTok anymore because my experience is the exact opposite: a whole bunch of people with Palestine takes or just recounting the latest harrowing thing happening in Gaza.

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[-] HexbearGPT@hexbear.net 55 points 8 months ago

The cold war is back baby! posadist-nuke strangelove-wow

[-] What_Religion_R_They@hexbear.net 47 points 8 months ago

it irks me that every online discussion I've seen on this forced expropriation does not mention Oracle at all. The whole charade is predicated on it being Chinese owned and run but it isn't.

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[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 46 points 8 months ago

Critical support to the geriatric US government in the fight against the internet

[-] TheDialectic@hexbear.net 44 points 8 months ago

The closest thing we have had to free speech in a while so the of course the government hates it.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 44 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Serious question - what's the dem's electoral strategy here? I just don't get it. What voting bloc is worth the loss of some really pissed off people - especially young people?

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I love the word "bloc". I'm dyslexic so a part of my brain keeps telling me it's wrong even though I know it's not.

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 53 points 8 months ago

"We're not Trump."

That's it. That's the strategy.

The Dems probably care less about losing than they let on. Two wings of the same party and all that. Do lawmakers make less money (including corrupt money) if they're in opposition rather than in govt?

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[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 40 points 8 months ago

The dems electoral strategy is to lose, "concede defeat with dignity" and then get to fund raise offf of pretending they wouldn't be doing the exact same thing as republicans if they were in power.

Losing elections is dems preferred state of being, they get to claim the moral high ground and insist they're just powerless to do the good things people want and fundraise by promising to do those good things if you give them enough money. Again.

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[-] Finger@hexbear.net 40 points 8 months ago

no more half measures walter

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