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Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE

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Re: Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE

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Happening because TikTok is under US laws. Use https://www.douyin.com/ then. And if they wouldn’t, they would be blocked or prevented of doing business in the US.

US laws, hmm. Wasn't there something about an amendment to their constitution? I believe it might've even been the first? Something about freedom of speech? Maybe I'm just misremembering, but I could've sworn conservatives kept harping on about it.

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> according to TechCrunch, this language has been included in the privacy policy since Aug. 2024, and wasn’t changed in response to the Trump administration’s latest escalation of immigration enforcement, and is “primarily there to comply with state privacy laws like California’s Consumer Privacy Act.”

This is the problem with any kind of censoring media. The initial intentions of those policies might have been good, but these kind of policies can so easily be abused for malign intentions.

Re: Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE

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pretty impressive how quickly Ellisons managed to make this whole situation suck and reek badly. they'll turn down the heat & stuff the frog back in the pot, then crank the heat up a bit slower this time, but there is just going to be such endless utterly preposterous censorship and algorithmic biasing for the right wing & ultra capitalist agenda, on and on now. incredible beyond words that this was a unanimous decis…

Capitalism is when bad things happen. And the more badder they are the more capitalism it is!

Re: Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE

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Since when is speaking out against fascism virtue signalling? Like, how bad does it have to get before it's just speaking out against the attrocities happening around us and not virtue signalling? Or are celebrities just flat out not allowed to do it?

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Re: Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE

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Since when is speaking out against fascism virtue signalling? Like, how bad does it have to get before it's just speaking out against the attrocities happening around us and not virtue signalling? Or are celebrities just flat out not allowed to do it?

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You have government-backed thugs with guns running around murdering people who take photos of them.

You have something that looks worryingly like the Ceaușescu's Securitate "disappearing" citizens - including a little 5-year-old boy - off the streets.

Justify that.

Justify kidnapping a terrified little boy who should be at school with his friends, and locking him up in prison.

Go on, justify those actions. Let's see if you can.

Re: Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE

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Since when is speaking out against fascism virtue signalling? Like, how bad does it have to get before it's just speaking out against the attrocities happening around us and not virtue signalling? Or are celebrities just flat out not allowed to do it?

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Like Alex Pretti?

Re: Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE

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US laws, hmm. Wasn't there something about an amendment to their constitution? I believe it might've even been the first? Something about freedom of speech? Maybe I'm just misremembering, but I could've sworn conservatives kept harping on about it.

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Generally speaking, threats and calls to violence are legal. Only a subset are illegal.

Re: Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE

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Happening because TikTok is under US laws. Use https://www.douyin.com/ then. And if they wouldn’t, they would be blocked or prevented of doing business in the US.

US laws, hmm. Wasn't there something about an amendment to their constitution? I believe it might've even been the first? Something about freedom of speech? Maybe I'm just misremembering, but I could've sworn conservatives kept harping on about it.

Did you have the same concerns when Biden's DoJ was colluding with social media to censor narratives they didn't like politically?

https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/google-admi...

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