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

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Post by fwip »

antonymoose wrote: post #166
mekdoonggi wrote: post #138

Earlier 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.

I feel like you can both want illegal aliens to get deported, but not approve of how ICE is executing protesters in the street, entering homes without warrants, and kidnapping people in unmarked vans.

Similarly, you can think it would be good to catch tax fraud, but think that it should be handled without executing folks.

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Post by desolate_muffin »

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 am not sure. I think we're talking about the one where Trump illegally and unilaterally ignored the sale or de-list deadline passed in said bipartisan bill so he could figure out which Trump loyalists would be taking over. I'm glad they finally got it sorted out a little over a year after the January 19, 2025 deadline in the bill.

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Post by deadbabe »

pjc50 wrote: post #188
mc32 wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Care to elaborate?

Most Americans are unaware of how China is collapsing. All news is censored.

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Post by palmotea »

Cyph0n wrote: post #189
gradus_ad wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really. It was about preventing CCP control of information.

The CCP angle is the PR version. From last year: https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2024/05/06/senato... 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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Post by rtp4me »

NickC25 wrote: post #79
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 don't know. I think that over the years, bad faith actors in the world of geopolitics have taken advantage of this in a very nefarious way in order to sow chaos, bad-faith/purposefully-inaccurate "talking points" and capture the hearts and minds of the ignorant, the stupid, and the willfully delusional masses who are desperate to cling to a conspiracy if it fits their worldview which is in turn reinforced by said b…

To me, the media is/are nothing more than drug sellers at this point. They have their weapon "of truth" sold to the very people you listed above. I do my absolute best to not consume any media because I know it is twisted and often wrong (eg. AI generated content). The best I can do is simply not participate in their war. Reddit, TikTok, X, etc are definitely supplying heavy drugs to anyone who wants to be hooked.

At some point, we definitely need a cooling-off period where people from both sides refrain from inciting anger from the masses.

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Post by kortilla »

conception wrote: post #32
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.

But the thing is people aren’t having “their say”. Social media companies are amplifying voices and viewpoints. They are not acting as “common carriers” letting quality sift to the top. It is curated and crafted.

“Letting quality sift to the top” implies that there is a way for this to happen without curation.

Pure user vote driven things like Reddit are a failure (echo chambers, emotional appeals, bot rings, etc). So I’m curious what you think would let that happen?

Even HN is heavily moderated to maintain topics.

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Post by pjc50 »

deadbabe wrote: post #193
pjc50 wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Care to elaborate?

Most Americans are unaware of how China is collapsing. All news is censored.

You must have heard about it from somewhere? Some reliable third party intermediary that is neither US nor China?

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Post by mc32 »

deadbabe wrote: post #193
pjc50 wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Care to elaborate?

Most Americans are unaware of how China is collapsing. All news is censored.

To be fair, I don’t think it’s as much collapsing as it’s having an internal party power struggle where the more authoritarian faction seems to have violently quelled a rebellion by one or two other factions.
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