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TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues

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Re: TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues

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Post by lyu07282 »

infecto wrote: post #35
nomilk wrote: post #7

I hope for the good of mankind, all sides of politics unite against deplatforming and oppressing opposing viewpoints. It's sad that certain topics (anti-ICE, Epstein) neutered on a social media platform, but this went on for years when the politics were reversed. Let everyone have their say, I say.

I am not sure why this was flagged but I don’t think it’s wrong. I am not sure if it’s a uniquely American thing but the internet has caused an unfortunate case of brigading for almost anything. I like to think I sit fairly middle in a lot of American topics I lean left on some items, taxes, healthcare, free school lunches and right on others but I remember how easy it was a number of years ago to be labeled a racist…

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Re: TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues

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Post by netsharc »

sosomoxie wrote: post #36
inetknght wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> but not that fast Why not? All the tech was already put in place by China. All that the U.S. had to do was change the filtered words.

What words were China filtering? I've never seen reports of censorship like this on TikTok before Ellison bought it.

On WeChat lots of things are censored, almost keyword based. E.g. a building collapses, you want to talk about it to your friends, your message can't be sent because it'll be deemed to be trying to cause social unrest..

Duoyin (Chinese version of TikTok) would definitely not be different..

Re: TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues

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Post by gruez »

throwforfeds wrote: post #33
gruez wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>is all about hiding information from the US public that most people in the rest of the world have easy access to. Are we talking about the Trump administration or the Biden administration? The current ban was passed under Biden with supermajorities in both houses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efforts_to_ban_TikTok_in_the_U... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_Americans_from_Fore...

Both. I'm not sure why the meme on the right is that the left wants to protect Biden or anyone else. Who cares, they all can come crashing down.

>I'm not sure why the meme on the right is that the left wants to protect Biden or anyone else.

No, the point isn't "protecting Biden", it's pure self interest. Tiktok is a social media platform that's very popular with Democrat's electorate and is already left leaning. Why risk it falling into the other party's control (especially near the end of Biden's term), just so you can maybe push more left leaning talking points?

Re: TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues

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Post by justonceokay »

gruez wrote: post #25
mark_l_watson wrote: post #4

The forced US hosted tik-tok sale is all about hiding information from the US public that most people in the rest of the world have easy access to.

>is all about hiding information from the US public that most people in the rest of the world have easy access to. Are we talking about the Trump administration or the Biden administration? The current ban was passed under Biden with supermajorities in both houses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efforts_to_ban_TikTok_in_the_U... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_Americans_from_Fore...

Why is it always a blame game? What dos that accomplish? There’s no “good guy” administrations. There’s just realpolitik. The current iteration of ICE is an outgrowth of the Obama admin, as is the problem with billionaires in politics. Biden put a target on Maduro's head before leaving office (continuing to fill a multi-administration powder keg re: Venezuela). Trump just had the panache to brazenly do the deed instead of waiting for the next guy to do it. Horrible? yes. Unprecedented? Hardly.

Now I’m not saying things are inevitable. Trump has a bull-in-china-shop mentality. But he is only being manipulated to set the same agenda, just faster than any president in living memory.

Re: TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues

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Post by [deleted] »

sosomoxie wrote: post #36
inetknght wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> but not that fast Why not? All the tech was already put in place by China. All that the U.S. had to do was change the filtered words.

What words were China filtering? I've never seen reports of censorship like this on TikTok before Ellison bought it.

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Re: TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues

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Post by pjc50 »

infecto wrote: post #35
nomilk wrote: post #7

I hope for the good of mankind, all sides of politics unite against deplatforming and oppressing opposing viewpoints. It's sad that certain topics (anti-ICE, Epstein) neutered on a social media platform, but this went on for years when the politics were reversed. Let everyone have their say, I say.

I am not sure why this was flagged but I don’t think it’s wrong. I am not sure if it’s a uniquely American thing but the internet has caused an unfortunate case of brigading for almost anything. I like to think I sit fairly middle in a lot of American topics I lean left on some items, taxes, healthcare, free school lunches and right on others but I remember how easy it was a number of years ago to be labeled a racist…

Ironically, "labelling" someone else is an act of free speech as much as anything else.

Re: TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues

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Post by Swoerd123 »

LauraMedia wrote: post #50
reliabilityguy wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the rest of the world have easy access to. Except for China, where TikTok is nothing like the TikTok for the rest of the world

Which is basically what the US also wants.

except with a different brand of fascism.

Re: TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues

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Post by andsoitis »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #4

The forced US hosted tik-tok sale is all about hiding information from the US public that most people in the rest of the world have easy access to.

> hiding information from the US public

It is literally on the front page of news papers....

Also, you can see it on Instagram, X, etc.

Even a cursory search on TikTok reveals anti-ICE content...

Re: TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues

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Post by ericmay »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #4

The forced US hosted tik-tok sale is all about hiding information from the US public that most people in the rest of the world have easy access to.

I've never in my life used TikTok. Can you please point to a specific article, news source, journal, any piece of information that is legal in the United States that I don't have easy access to so I can see what I'm missing?

Re: TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues

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Post by duskdozer »

gruez wrote: post #25
mark_l_watson wrote: post #4

The forced US hosted tik-tok sale is all about hiding information from the US public that most people in the rest of the world have easy access to.

>is all about hiding information from the US public that most people in the rest of the world have easy access to. Are we talking about the Trump administration or the Biden administration? The current ban was passed under Biden with supermajorities in both houses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efforts_to_ban_TikTok_in_the_U... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_Americans_from_Fore...

I think you'll find that pro-privacy, anti-right-wing people often don't have the highest opinion of "their" guy
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