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

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Post by eunos »

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.

If Dem could win big soon the lawfare against Trump business could be huge. DOGE purge alone was making a lot of bad blood.

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Post by gcanyon »

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.

The problem I was listening to a historian discuss the other day is that we're stuck in a cycle of:

   1. Republican breaks norms/laws
   2. Democrat cleans up after, but by *not* breaking norms, doesn't go far enough to actually undo all the damage
   3. We end up with a more broken governmental configuration, and head back to (1)
They said this pattern goes back to Nixon.

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Post by tech_hutch »

dataviz1000 wrote: post #253
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.

It isn't so much as the rest of the world having easy access. It is what the Chinese want the rest of the world to see. If you are in a South American country using a residential IP in new incognito session, doom scroll, after the initial disturbing content, you will start to notice videos of the United States government physically attacking people born in the country of the residential IP address. The TikTok algorit…

> the United States government rolling through protesters in armored vehicles

I'm sorry, did I miss something? Is this something that's happened (ever)?

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Post by autoexec »

thrance wrote: post #468
lenerdenator wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Case-in-point of why we shouldn't have approached China like we did over the last few decades. It normalized totalitarianism in some segments of Western society.

Why blame China? This dire situation is not on foreign nations seeking to destroy US democracy, it's entirely on domestic robber barons capturing the State for their own gains. China has very little soft power among the general population, while Musk, Ellison and the other propagandists run the show.

Our domestic robber barons are building the capacity to monitor and control Americans in ways similar to those used by China to monitor and control their population.

China isn't to blame, but they are a frightening example of where things are headed and they're giving the robber barons screwing us a blueprint to follow.

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Post by timpera »

SilverElfin wrote: post #271

Not just anti ICE videos - you can’t even mention Epstein https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/tiktok-epstein-trump-cens...

It's also blocking the word "test": https://www.theverge.com/news/868362/tiktok-epstein-ban-hoax... Looks like it's just a bug.

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Post by mvdtnz »

biophysboy wrote: post #299
PurpleRamen wrote: post #66

They are in transition, so for the moment I believe them to have technical problems, because it also matches my experience. Yesterday I encountered problems with several videos, which are working today. And not all of them were political. Going by the comments, people on TikTok seem very fast in seeing conspiracies, when many problems can be simply explained with normal problems or human failings. And it's good to be…

I am also skeptical (despite having 0 faith in the new owners). However, I am a bit confused: why would new ownership alone cause technical issues? It seems like they set new requirements that required new software. Even if the reqs are content-agnostic, I am curious what they are and how they differ from the previous tiktok.

Data migrations, new staff permissions and policies, merging AWS or other cloud accounts and their complex IAM policies, enrolling devices into new corporate networks, Okta setup, corporate firewalls. There are hundreds of reasons that moving to a new corporate ownership can cause technical problems.

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Post by JKCalhoun »

animal_spirits wrote: post #523
IIAOPSW wrote: post #439

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dare I say, the Revolution will not be Televised.

I do love this song and I find it resonates to read the lyrics as though revolutions are censored by media (which is true). Though I found an interview with Gil Scott-Heron about the meaning of the lyrics and I find it more interesting; The revolution will not be televised because the revolution starts in your mind, at the dinner table, or reading books in the library. It won't be captured on TV because the revolutio…

That's clever.

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Post by [deleted] »

tech_hutch wrote: post #543
dataviz1000 wrote: post #253

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It isn't so much as the rest of the world having easy access. It is what the Chinese want the rest of the world to see. If you are in a South American country using a residential IP in new incognito session, doom scroll, after the initial disturbing content, you will start to notice videos of the United States government physically attacking people born in the country of the residential IP address. The TikTok algorit…

> the United States government rolling through protesters in armored vehicles I'm sorry, did I miss something? Is this something that's happened (ever)?

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Post by estearum »

webdoodle wrote: post #480
estearum wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or the right wing ideologues who now allegedly control (components of) TikTok are as dumb and ideological as they appear. Note: They also are having "technical difficulties" transmitting DMs with the string "epstein" in them.

If you care to fight them directly, upload them using "Ellistein" or "Epsteen". But really you should delete the app, and find an alternative. Vote with your attention/wallet.

Yeah, agreed. I'm not a TikTok user but good advice in general
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