TBH the only surprising thing here is that outside the USA users can still search it. Apparently the “US-based” TikTok doesn’t need to follow their own rules outside the USA, almost like ByteDance is still the majority owner and the algorithm is still in Beijing.
American gamers who spam Taiwan/Tiananmen square in chat are in shambles
Of course not, the CCP does not want to stir up their population.
Suicide didn’t Epstein himself.
Why are you still using Tik-Tok.
You know it’s compromised, yet still try to make it work.
They knew it was a Chinese info-stealing tool before and didn’t care. But they weren’t afraid of the Chinese administration coming to their house to threaten them.
Who are you talking too? Not likely to find many here.
not our users, but our families do. Luckily, my wife realized it was finally serious.
Just write it Esptien instead.
Mandela effect that shit! Bernstein bears, not that bernstain shit.
Well sure, you didn’t think Trump “saved” it did you. He bought it.
he didn’t buy anything, he stole it :)
God, you Yankees are sure winning at everything
Hang on, TikTok is Chinese and controlled by the CCP and PLA. That’s why I do not use the crap.
They transferred control to the US.
Epstein+Trump… just checking something
Doesn’t look like anything to me.
If you haven’t deleted your tiktok account by now, then I don’t know what to tell you.
Good thing I never had a TikTok account.
Same
Starting to think centralizing the internet into platforms owned by far-right billionaires might have been a bad idea.
ByteDance is still the majority owner, btw. Beijing server is still online, as well.
Bring back usenet.
Absolutely. Especially when it comes to social media.
Haha next you’ll be telling me that allowing broadband cartels in the US to collude and conspire against consumers was a bad idea
Me reacting to that statement 30 years ago: Yeah ok it’s the Illuminati controlling the world and doing evil shit. I’ll be sure to hunt them down in the future smash hit game Deus Ex.
Me reacting to that statement 30 seconds ago: fuck
“We have to fight with the weapons that apply to the battlefields in which we’re engaged. And the most important ones are on social media. And the most important purchase that is going on right now is TikTok. Number one. Number one.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in September.
One rich asshole called Larry Ellison is a large part of the purchase. He’s a VERY close ally of Israel and his son David runs Paramount Skydance. Larry’s backing their acquisition of Warner Bros.
The Ellison family has a very big say on what media gets created and watched in the US now.
Oracle really is an acronym!
It is indeed!
I downloaded tiktok when it first came out scrolled through it for a while. Realized there was no porn on it and then uninstalled it.
Porn is life and life is porn. Seriously. Your conception was an act of pornography and some people find giving birth to be a turn on.
🤣🤣🤣
It is also ironic or coincidental. Not entirely sure but I’m getting married this weekend. So my porn consumption is at an all-time low! 🤷
Edit: I just realized that that sounds like a humble brag…
I have had every single comment of these two photos removed and threatened with a ban. They are actively trying to suppress this.
Screenshot! Going to post these around randomly
All the maga slop I drop these all over the comments
Jesus H. Christ!
So the reason why Tik Tok was not allowed to run as a Chinese company, was not to prevent Chinese propaganda but to allow for US propaganda
Oh, the moment that fucking congress was involved, I knew they were all upset that millions of people were using a communication platform that they had zero eyeballs on. Worse yet, the only party that did was a foreign superpower. All of that is very bad news for entrenched politics, with people able to collectively invent a different mindset and/or get swayed by outside interests. The only way to fix this was ban it or own it somehow: the very two options floated at the time.
Meanwhile we narrowly avoided a precedent for a great firewall of our own.
What do you think the other social networks are for?
Yes, that is literally the point.
Same reason grok is allowed to generate CSAM but not unflattering images of Trump.
There is an old joke about how incredibly good American propaganda was. What we are seeing now is more of a
breakdownshift in the propaganda machine. It is becoming less about forming a universal belief. They have realized this is no longer possible. So, it’s not about hiding the lies. It’s about preventing the most people from seeing the truth.Anyway, here is the joke.
A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet up in a bar for a friendly drink
"I have to admit, I’m always so impressed by Soviet propaganda.
You really know how to get people worked up," the CIA agent says.
“Thank you,” the KGB says. "We do our best but truly, it’s nothing compared to American propaganda.
Your people believe everything your state media tells them."
The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. "Thank you friend, but you must be confused…
There’s no propaganda in America."
Yes, they literally explicitly said this. There also wasnt even “Chinese propaganda”, the just didn’t care to censor pro-palestine content and that’s unacceptable to the US.
There absolutely was loads of Chinese propaganda. That you think there wasn’t is evidence that it worked too. Tiktok was a major win for China in PR and soft power.
I guess it might help if you clarify what sort of content was propaganda to you?
If you consider statistics as evidence then it helped Trump get reelected and made a lot of sympathizers to the Chinese among youth, as well as just general polarization/radicalization.
Personally I find the data collection a bigger violation than that. Everyone who installed and ran the app had all of their messages, contacts, and photos sent to a military base in Beijing which is still operational even now after the cloud backup went online.
Just imagine how many social security numbers, ID numbers, facial recog, bank numbers, nearby devices, and other highly private information got leaked by idiots texting grandma after watching silly clips of high schoolers dancing with a dog. Just imagine how many military secrets and infrastructure vulnerabilities were revealed.
I don’t know what the guy asking you meant exactly, but in europe tiktok has been a big reason for the rise of far right Parties all across europe. China stands to gain from a divided europe.
First part may be true, but I really don’t think you can directly blame China for that. The app itself is a tiny factor is the rise of the far right which has a lot more to do with the “in real life circumstances”.
I would also disagree that China gains much from a divided Europe. The argument could be made in theory, but it doesn’t align with what i’ve observed From Chinese foreign policy in practice.
The approach of amplifying divisions in other countries is more of a Russian tactic than anything. Russia stands to gain more from a divided Europe, and it would be in alignment with their foreign policy in practice. That said, I also think the Russian influence on these matters is a bit overstated at times, to the point where the actually issues aren’t being discussed. I notice it on the American side of things as well.
This is like when my mom (who is on a diet) complains that I don’t throw out the ice cream sandwiches in my freezer before she comes over to visit.
This is just sealioning.
It isn’t though. “Propaganda” has fluid definition, so I was hoping to get on the same page so we could continue the discussion. It’s always helpful to clarify terms before we just talk past each other.
I’m familiar with the comic, but it doesn’t represent the situation here at all. Is asking any sort of clarifying question to someone who is directly in my replies “sealioning” to you? I thought it represented an undesired and obnoxious series of questions by a third party, but I’m one of the primary participants in this conversation.
Is asking any sort of clarifying question to someone who is directly in my replies “sealioning” to you?
Not at all.
But your follow up reply definitely seals the deal.
It’s better if one of donnie’s buttboys/buttgals run every aspect of major media outlets in this country. And if they are not run directly by someone that is ideologically devoted to the felon in chief, they should at least bend the knee every once in a while and pay him tribute for their “crimes” of accurate reporting.
Also pro Palestine stuff is blocked
Ironic considering Israel was behind Epstein and Ghisline . Must be a coincidence
