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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.
Zero disagreement. Rules of engagement should be clear to everyone. How can you possibly play the game if the rules keep changing based on political expediency. And we all know.. that that kind of a game is rigged from the start. That said, I was thinking more about people all of us building tools that got us into the situation we are in now.
TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues
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#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
And ICE says they only go after illegals.
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#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy
> Conservatives claimed that they were specifically targeted by the IRS, but an exhaustive report released by the Treasury Department's Inspector General in 2017 found that from 2004 to 2013, the IRS used both conservative and liberal keywords to choose targets for further scrutiny.
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#184The 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 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. No, at least during the Biden administration when the law was passed, it wasn't. This shit is a lot more complicated that a hot take based on today's news.
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#185The 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
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> 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?
Of course not, but other stuff is.
Interestingly, my understanding is government pressure forces Douyin to be more "positive" and "encouraging" than Tiktok (i.e. outrage is an easy way drive engagement with obvious negative externalities, and that path is blocked).
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#187It’s crazy to think that Instagram Reels, owned by Meta, is preferable to TikTok now. At least Reels now is at least competitive in terms of content - unlike two years ago when people were worried about TikTok being banned and Reels was not a good alternative.
Isn't Reels content more right-wing, while TikTok has lots of both left-leaning and right-leaning content.
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#188The 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 wonder where all the TikTok videos are about all the tanks and hotel shoot outs in Beijing over the last week or so are… where various party factions fought it out over control of the central committee and you have the disappearance of various generals in the PLA.
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#189The 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.
Not really. It was about preventing CCP control of information.
Note that there have been multiple instances over the past two years of high level ex/current officials repeating the same general point.
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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.
Right now the Ellison family owns both CBS and the US version of TikTok, so sometimes the connection is kind of literal. But this complaint is pretty old, I think of Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent. (Setting aside his Epstein connections for a moment) The way we do censorship is much less the methods of a traditional totalitarian state and more like the private sector policing what is acceptable discourse.