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.
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.
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.
Everyone moving to The Little Red Book (or "RedNote") is creating some very funny interactions, lmao. Super cute honestly
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. 👍
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.
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.
I don't think it's the reason
The Israelis have effectively been committing genocide in slow motion for decades
The real reason is the American Oligarchs don't like foreign competition to their data collection.
The second someone starts showing American war crimes they are a security risk. But Americans somehow still believe in free speech.
This is the real reason for the ban.
"National security" just translates to "public opinion of the war(s)"
Its more simplified to "lack of ability to control the narrative" and also "My billionaire masters cant turn a profit from it"
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.
I guess I am going to give my kids access to my VPN I don't trust the government at all any more
Mitt Romney might just be the only member of the GOP with at least a single honest bone in his body.
So that's who the democrats will run in 2028
Irritatingly plausible. I'm going to be stoked if we get another election at all though.
We will. A free and fair one, though? Outlook not so good.
If it makes you feel any better, the US has never had a free or fair election.
That can certainly be argued, but they at least had (incredibly shitty) rules that were followed. Now they won't even have that.
Still an evil fuck.
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]".
Palestinians getting to broadcast the horrors visited upon them by zionists is bad. /s
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