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

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Post by criddell »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #6
kotaKat wrote: post #2

well… i submitted it as https://lite.cnn.com/2026/01/26/tech/tiktok-ice-censorship-g... but i guess HN drops the lite off of it? le sigh, here’s hoping someone can frontpage one of these tiktok censorship stories today…?

Looks like this one made it to the front page. Interesting times… My mother was born just after WWII—died a few years ago. As sad as I have been (still am) when I watch the world fall apart around me I am thankful that she at least lived through perhaps the best stretch American history—does not have to see the shit I am seeing daily (she was the type that would have been unconsolably anxious about it). I feel badly,…

Based on this comment, I think we are around the same age. I'm 55 and have two kids born in the early 2000's.

I was born in Canada in 1970 to loving and extraordinarily supportive parents and moved to the US in the mid 90's. I can't imagine a better time or place to have been born. I have kids around the same age as yours and their lives are so much more difficult even though they are smarter and harder working than I ever was.

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Post by infecto »

pjc50 wrote: post #151
infecto wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t think it’s ironic and my point was not the act of labeling itself but more of how America has become a brigading culture. Free speech should be protected, even for things that we know are wrong but we have this decay of the internet and culture where you are either with someone or against them.

But that's my point: what you call "brigading" is other people using their free speech in a way you don't like.

I think we are talking past each other a bit.

I am not objecting to people expressing disagreement or labeling as an abstract exercise of free speech. I am pointing to a pattern that has become common online where disagreement quickly turns into coordinated pile-ons, identity assignment, and social signaling rather than substantive engagement with the argument itself.

Free speech protects the right to do that, but it does not mean the behavior is healthy or productive. When discourse collapses into binary alignment where nuance is treated as hostility, it discourages honest participation and pushes people toward silence or extremes.

So yes, others are exercising free speech. My concern is about the cultural outcome of how that speech is increasingly used, not whether it is permitted.

Increasingly society in America is either you are with us or not and at least for me my view of the world is more nuanced and day to day.

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Post by lingrush4 »

iugtmkbdfil834 wrote: post #126

Allow me to offer some words of wisdom. If you help building weapons to be used against $currently_designated_bad_people, you can rest assured that given enough time, those weapons will be used against you. I am watching all this with a mild sense of bemusement.

And you think they won't be used against me if I don't help build them?

Seems unlikely.

If the implication is that the tools won't exist if I don't build them, that's beyond a pipe dream. We'll never get a globe of 8 billion people to agree unanimously on anything. Let alone agreeing not to build something that gives them power over their adversaries.

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Post by lingrush4 »

xve wrote: post #128

It looks like some are moving over to upscroll, anyone know anything about upscroll? what other apps are you using? I remember when everyone migrated from MySpace to Facebook and I assumed everyone was going to just keep moving over to the next big thing every few years but that actually didn't happen. Facebook became an institution.

Nothing. These apps are mental poison. They're designed to be addictive. Healthy adults don't use TikTok or any equivalent.

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Post by antonymoose »

mekdoonggi wrote: post #138
iugtmkbdfil834 wrote: post #126

Allow me to offer some words of wisdom. If you help building weapons to be used against $currently_designated_bad_people, you can rest assured that given enough time, those weapons will be used against you. I am watching all this with a mild sense of bemusement.

A NYT columnist Jamelle Bouie suggested (in jest) that the next Democrat administration send armed IRS agents to gated communities in Florida, to "investigate tax fraud". But this is exactly why all citizens should be concerned about the infringement of rights happening in Minnesota. If it is allowed without prosecution, you are next.

Why would anyone be opposed to the IRS catching tax cheats? This seems like such a bone-headed take.

In any case it’s also historically illiterate, the IRS has long been used as a political weapon, infamously against “Tea Party” activists.

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Post by ericmay »

asveikau wrote: post #156
ericmay wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

You have easy access in that you can find things if you look for it. What that commenter means by easy access is that the information is in mainstream sources pushed to people such that you are likely to know about it without having looked. For example I made a comment here on HN recently that immigrants commit crimes at fewer rates than US born people. That sends a segment of Americans into a flying rage even though…

Mainstream sources that control narratives, and are owned by the same extremely wealthy people that we're complaining about now owning TikTok?

Sorry, this doesn't pass the smell test for me.

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Post by lolc »

davidmurdoch wrote: post #132
infecto wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s amazes how confident people will describe your lived experiences and say you are wrong. No this was entirely different and coincided in time with the complaints of censorship.

I said you were right. You might need to go touch grass man. [Edit]: I shouldn't have made the "touch grass" comment. Sorry.

From my read you said something different from what OP said. They voiced that there was a wiping of preference that was noticeable, where you said "it does this all the time." Sure both can describe the same thing, but they don't have to be. Why double down instead of accepting that this time it might be different?

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Post by fwip »

reliabilityguy wrote: post #42
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.

> 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

Do you think anti-ICE videos are being blocked in China?

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Post by smashah »

malfist wrote: post #13

Is it a technical glitch that prevents the uploads? Or is it a technical glitch that let's people know that that content is being censored

They consider free people sharing information with each other against the consent and interests of MEGAPEDOELLISON Cabal in power a "technical glitch" that they're trying hard to "patch" by slaughtering the First Amendment.
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