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[-] josefo@leminal.space 7 points 15 hours ago

What a shitty government you have if the truth puts it on danger. I see why Russia and China appeal to this information (and misinformation) war, seems like the US people has grown to be very gullible, so whoever controls the narrative, controls them. And totally self inflicted, your own government did this to you so they could control you better.

[-] Crikeste@lemm.ee 8 points 15 hours ago

And Amerikkka plays the information war too. I’m remembering a CIA operation to spread vaccine misinformation in the Philippines.

If China and Russia are “bad” because of the information war, Amerikkka is at the very least just as guilty. At the very least.

[-] josefo@leminal.space 4 points 13 hours ago

It's just another cold war, being fight with bots and social engineering. I wonder how future historians are going to call this period, as also involves trading supply chains.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 19 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Everyone moving to The Little Red Book (or "RedNote") is creating some very funny interactions, lmao. Super cute honestly

[-] Xatolos@reddthat.com 23 points 1 day ago

So let me get this straight....

The Tiktok ban, that was first proposed in Jan 2020, and was banned from government devices in Dec 2022, was getting first drafts for laws banned in Dec 2022, another law was proposed to block in nationwide in Jan 2023, was further restricted in March of 2023, and was signed into law to banned Tiktok nation wide on April 2023 (to be completely removed by Jan 2025) is solely being done to censor information about a conflict that started in Oct 2023...

Yeah, check outs. 👍

[-] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 12 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

If you make the point simpler it works. "We are banning tiktok because it is a social media platform we have no ability to censor" with this in mind it makes sense to say "its because of isreal-palastine" because that is just a facet of not having control over platform censorship.

If you really believe that when they say they are getting rid of tiktok it is for national security you're a fucking rube, they have been taking away our freedoms for decades under the guise of national security, they sure as fuck dont consider it any sort of threat that any of the American social media platform would sell your data do a hostile foreign power. They want it gone because A) they cannot control what spreads on it, and B) their rich owners arnt profiting from it.

If you want to argue that any social media platform dying is a good thing, then i can at least sympathize (thought id argue this isnt a step in the direction of getting rid of social media in general), but if you think banning tiktok is about anything more than corruption you're a rube.

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[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 12 points 18 hours ago

The law was April 2024, so you know, after October 2023. The sudden political push to get that done instead of stall out line 2020-2023 is what's being talking about.

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[-] normanwall@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I don't think it's the reason

The Israelis have effectively been committing genocide in slow motion for decades

[-] demizerone@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

The real reason is the American Oligarchs don't like foreign competition to their data collection.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago

The second someone starts showing American war crimes they are a security risk. But Americans somehow still believe in free speech.

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[-] psyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.com 109 points 1 day ago

This is the real reason for the ban.

"National security" just translates to "public opinion of the war(s)"

[-] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 9 points 17 hours ago

Its more simplified to "lack of ability to control the narrative" and also "My billionaire masters cant turn a profit from it"

[-] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 2 points 13 hours ago

It has diverted traffic and money away from sites such as Twitter, FB and Amazon after TT videos called them out and offered alternatives or avoiding completely/anticonsumerism perspectives.

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[-] Trilobite@lemm.ee 40 points 1 day ago

I guess I am going to give my kids access to my VPN I don't trust the government at all any more

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

You should absolutely have your kids use a VPN.

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[-] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 44 points 1 day ago

Mitt Romney might just be the only member of the GOP with at least a single honest bone in his body.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 59 points 1 day ago

So that's who the democrats will run in 2028

[-] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 day ago

Irritatingly plausible. I'm going to be stoked if we get another election at all though.

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

We will. A free and fair one, though? Outlook not so good.

[-] sleeplessone@lemmy.ml 1 points 16 hours ago

If it makes you feel any better, the US has never had a free or fair election.

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 3 points 16 hours ago

That can certainly be argued, but they at least had (incredibly shitty) rules that were followed. Now they won't even have that.

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[-] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 43 points 1 day ago
[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 day ago

Yeah, its just nice when they're honest about it.

US republicans will be like: "8 men should own this country and everyone else can die in the gutter". US democrats will be like: "We need to reframe the conversation about the lived experiences of so many of our constituents, and reach solutions that include these realities [policies not different from those above]".

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 1 day ago

Palestinians getting to broadcast the horrors visited upon them by zionists is bad. /s

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