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

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Post by Forgeties79 »

Aurornis wrote: post #152
Forgeties79 wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am not getting that from your previous comment but I’ll just assume I’m misreading it.

This entire comment thread was me responding to someone claiming that people “in other countries” have easy access to information. Given the downvotes and angry responses I think a lot of people misinterpreted it as something else. I should learn to avoid comment sections about politics.

I don’t think that’s the lesson here if you’re looking for one. I think it’s just a clarity/phrasing issue. If that’s not what you meant then that’s fine, no harm no foul as far as I’m concerned. I was just going off how I read it.

If you’re looking for feedback, “I’m not saying…” without saying what you are saying generally comes off as obfuscating or at best wishy washy.

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Post by culi »

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.

This is called "boomerang theory" in sociology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_boomerang

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Post by b00ty4breakfast »

even setting aside the particulars of a US-controlled tik-tok, that our entire view of the world is through these narrow balistraria controlled by a few platforms is extremely detrimental to a free society, especially one so dependent on the flow of information.

You could leave tik-tok but that's where folks are at and the average tik-tok viewer is unlikely to leave their dank maymays just because of some "alleged" (and I use that term lightly) censorship

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Post by palmotea »

fwip wrote: post #239
palmotea wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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).

Then the GP statement is still correct. "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."

> Then the GP statement is still correct.

In the most point-missing, technical kind of way.

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Post by jeffbee »

dmajor2 wrote: post #333
gizzlon wrote: post #305

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Did you just link to grokipedia?

Linking to actual sources would reveal that the keywords the IRS was looking for were politically biased, yes, but across the spectrum. The keywords included "Tea Party", "Patriot", "Progressive", and "Occupy." https://www.npr.org/2017/10/05/555975207/as-irs-targeted-tea...

"Biased but across the spectrum" is nonsense.

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Post by pjc50 »

buildbot wrote: post #226
pjc50 wrote: post #198

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

I haven’t heard anything about this but the claim appears to be mostly true - https://spectator.com/article/has-xi-jinping-fought-off-anot... The spectator is allegedly a reliable media source, I am not personally familiar.

The Spectator is 99% opinion pieces. They're not somewhere I'd go for news. It all seems a bit unconfirmed sources. Zhang being purged is confirmed on the BBC and absolutely everywhere else, along with pointing out that there's been a "clean sweep" of senior PLA staff. The street violence seems a bit less corroborated.

(by contrast, while the Daily Mail is absolutely terrible at opinion and domestic news, they seem to have some capacity left for doing overseas reporting that isn't just wire service, so if they report on overseas events you can be reasonably sure that something like that happened)

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Post by 1over137 »

lostlogin wrote: post #263
1over137 wrote: post #229

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China is not publicly espousing conquering Canada and Greenland (Europe). Who would you choose, the people threatening to invade you, or the other guys?!?!

China is threatening invade other places, which are of more value to them.

>China is threatening invade other places...

Taiwan and where else?

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Post by gadders »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #321
gadders wrote: post #311

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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.

You forget that Obama wasn’t an idiot and did everything above board. Sanctuary cities existed back then, federal agents still enforced immigration rules just without Gestapo-like sh*t stirring. Trump wanted to provoke Minneapolis with aggressive highly visible tactics, and he got what he wanted.

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Post by pjc50 »

yieldcrv wrote: post #331
SHAKEDECADE wrote: post #241

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I was able to find this pretty quickly: Zhang Youxia Arrested After Failed Coup; Gunfight Allegedly Occurred at Jingxi Hotel in Western Beijing ( https://www.peoplenewstoday.com/news/en/2026/01/25/1130776.h... )

Oh nice, what would the coup be about? Would it be for something closer to western interests or would it be about because theyre too far from marxism, like when the students at Tiananmen Square were trying to democratically vote in more marxism but the Americans only saw democratically

Reports talk about some combination of being too far from Xi and "corruption", which is the usual all-purpose charge in situations like this.

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Post by topspin »

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.

> those weapons will be used against you

On the matter of social media "moderation," this is the phase you're actually in, right now.

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