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

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Post by gadders »

mekdoonggi wrote: post #216
antonymoose wrote: post #166

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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.

"Why would anyone be opposed to deporting criminals" is verbatim what I've read from conservative commenters. That isn't the issue being discussed. This is illustrating that armed, masked goons as a political weapon is a pandora's box that will get turned against everyone, regardless of status. Some people just don't care about the violence in Minnesota because it isn't happening to them.

Obama managed to deport more illegal immigrants than Trump. The difference is the local cities and states were working with ICE, rather than weaponising it to try and get a Democrat president.

Obama even gave Tom Homan a medal for his work.

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Post by sejje »

crawfordcomeaux wrote: post #296
sejje wrote: post #259

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You aren't seeing them because you aren't looking for them. And you're making excuses for the ones you see. Go find them. Do searches.

Sorry, just rattle off a couple names of ICE executions, and I'll go do research on them.

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Post by Aurornis »

insane_dreamer wrote: post #236
Aurornis wrote: post #97

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I think you’re greatly overestimating the number of people who only use one social media platform and never check any other news source at all. TikTok users are also known for being experts at evading filters and censors. Remember the rising popularity of “unalived” when talk of suicide was filtered out on the platform? I’m not saying this ICE censorship is good, because it’s not! I’m saying it’s ridiculous to claim…

> I think you’re greatly overestimating the number of people who only use one social media platform and never check any other news source at all. When it comes to the _younger generation_, I don't think it's an over-estimation; they don't read news sites at all.

I was responding to a claim about people who use only one social media platform.

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Post by thewebguyd »

lingrush4 wrote: post #197
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.

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> believe the government has no right to deport convicted criminals who are in the country illegally.

You mean execute American citizens in broad daylight in the middle of the street? Because that's what they are doing. Or tell me, what crimes did the 5 year old they kidnapped commit?

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Post by davidmurdoch »

lolc wrote: post #168
davidmurdoch wrote: post #132

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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?

Because this exact conspiracy has been going on since the elections for 2020. And it's well known and documented. Are you essentially asking me why I wouldn't encouFrage a conspiracy theory based on the anecdote of someone who says they hardly use the platform they are suggesting is forcing propaganda/censorship on them?

There are polarizing events getting more coverage right now, by far, than anything else in the USA, and HN user infecto is subscribing to the idea that the algorithm isn't going to try to check if these important ongoing events interest them.

It's very unlikely that "this time might be different"; the far more likely answer is that this is run-of-the-mill algorithm exploration injection.

Infecto replied me I said "you are wrong". I didn't. My original comment was assuring, in good faith, made to let them know that TikTok changing theit FYP feed is normal. They hadn't yet mentioned they already knew about algo resets and that they were leaning in to the conspiracies. Their reply to me was not in good faith, and did not respond to the strongest possible interpretation of what I originally commented.

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Post by duskdozer »

seanieb wrote: post #120
duskdozer wrote: post #62

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>This author has chosen to make their posts visible only to people who are signed in. Welp, guess I didn't want to learn about that anyway

Sorry. Thats fixed now.

The audio is really strange, have people tested it with similar sounding videos without ungoodthink?

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Post by financetechbro »

jnovacho wrote: post #306

How is TikTok able to screen this en masse? Are they going after tags? Political issues aside, I am really interested in the technical background in this.

The only thing I could come up with, assuming this isn’t a technical glitch, is that TikTok already had the infra to silence anything they want on the platform and as soon as the keys were handed over they turned that filter up to 100%

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Post by davidmurdoch »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #309
lolc wrote: post #168

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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?

"I said you were right" is not doubling down, and looks like an accurate description of the conversation to me. OP got hostile for no good reason. If it's different, they can talk about how it's different instead of going on the attack against someone that listened and tried to provide information.

Thanks. Though I do admit that my swipe back at them about "touching grass" was out of line.

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Post by _vqpz »

therobots927 wrote: post #217

And HN users can’t upload anti-ICE articles or discuss politics without getting flagged and downvoted. So I guess HN was just ahead of the curve.

>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This has not changed in over ten years https://web.archive.org/web/20140702092610/https://news.ycom...

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Post by sejje »

qeternity wrote: post #264
sejje wrote: post #249

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> In every state of the US (and most countries), people disobeying law enforcement will die. If you want to live, you comply, and you fight in court. This is one of the worst takes I have ever seen, to the point that you must just be trolling. Disobeying law enforcement is not a death sentence. It is often not even illegal. Just because LEO shouts "I am giving you a lawful order" does not in fact make it a lawful ord…

If it's not a lawful order, you fight that in court. It's almost a free pass to get out of whatever you did.

But what she was given was a lawful order. That's the one I'm talking about.

I'm not a trump voter.

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