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

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Post by seanmcdirmid » Tue, Jan 27, 2026, 5:00 PM UTC

gadders wrote: post #368

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #321

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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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That is ridiculous, Republicans are sending in poorly trained masked federal agents "en masse" into liberal, being as rough and visible as possible. That is the very definition of sh*t stirring. This is just what MAGA wanted: to beat up and shoot some libs.

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

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Post by direwolf20 » Tue, Jan 27, 2026, 5:00 PM UTC

mekdoonggi wrote: post #138

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.

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.

A democratic administration would be extremely unlikely to do that, I think. Democrats are usually middle–of–the–road, don't–upset–anyone types. Radical centrists, if you will. That's why the elections of people like Mamdani are so shocking.

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

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Post by beepbooptheory » Tue, Jan 27, 2026, 5:00 PM UTC

jmyeet wrote: post #240

MattDaEskimo wrote: post #137

It feels like federated networks with open-sourced feed algorithms are the best path forward. If AI removes any technical limitations, and automates content management, what's stopping a content creator from owning what they create and distributing it themselves? How can centralization continue to survive?

Why do so many tech people push this "federation is a panacea" idea despite all evidence to the contrary? I don't get it. First, the obvious: if federation was clearly superior, it would've won. No medium since email has been federated and even that's dominated by a handful of players. Running your own email server is... nontrivial. Second, users don't care abou tthis. Like at all. Third, supposedly tech-savvy people…

If the better, truly good thing was always also the winning, "superior" thing, we would live in a very different world.

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Post by woooooo » Tue, Jan 27, 2026, 5:00 PM UTC

curt15 wrote: post #404

woooooo wrote: post #279

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You're saying Chinese people are less informed than Americans about China?

Compare what is required to learn about the Tiananmen Square massacre from inside and outside the Great Firewall.

Ni juede zhongguoren bu zhidao tiananmen square 1989 de shihou zuole shenme?

That's HSK2 being generous, if you had to plug it into Google Translate, how can you say you know more than the people who speak the language and live there?

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Post by iamnothere » Tue, Jan 27, 2026, 5:00 PM UTC

mistercheph wrote: post #254

pydry wrote: post #205

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If a large outside power is intent on screwing with your populace I think the only way to really stop it is with diplomacy or a crackdown on free speech. Authoritarianism has been starting to become normalized because China and Russia are increasingly able to mess with our society in the same way our leaders always messed with theirs.

True, true, so true. Actually when a large outside power is screwing with your populace you gotta crackdown on the whole constitution. Yep, that's the only solution i think, sign of the times, I guess!

Unfortunately so. Niceties like civil rights and free elections were great before the rise of mortal enemies like Russia and China. Now we have to curtail those for a time to protect our democracy.

Don’t worry, everything will return to normal one day. Pinky swear.

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Post by Tiktaalik » Tue, Jan 27, 2026, 5:00 PM UTC

kenjackson wrote: post #30

It’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.

Reels is just AI and engagement slop

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Post by lostlogin » Tue, Jan 27, 2026, 5:00 PM UTC

1over137 wrote: post #367

lostlogin wrote: post #263

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

>China is threatening invade other places... Taiwan and where else?

India, Bhutan. South China Sea. East China Sea/Japan.

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Post by testing22321 » Tue, Jan 27, 2026, 5:01 PM UTC

jnovacho wrote: post #375

financetechbro wrote: post #317

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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%

Sure, but are they running audio recognition and image recognition models on each upload just to classify it?

Surely they do that to filter out Tiannamen Square content already…. Now they’re good to go for any authoritarian gov who wants to restrict what their citizens can see their own government doing.

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Post by direwolf20 » Tue, Jan 27, 2026, 5:01 PM UTC

hsuduebc2 wrote: post #181

iugtmkbdfil834 wrote: post #149

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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.

People rarely recognize that force can be turned on them until it happens. If one side uses force and the other refuses to, you cannot expect the first to grasp that force is always a two way street, because for them it is not real until they feel it.

Force can be turned on even if there was no force before. Biden didn't have anything like the current ICE, but Trump just made one out of thin air and then turned it on people.

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Post by direwolf20 » Tue, Jan 27, 2026, 5:01 PM UTC

guywithahat wrote: post #250

mekdoonggi wrote: post #138

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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.

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My favorite was the one where Florida Republicans made it legal to deny medical treatment based on religious or moral belief, and a surgeon stopped administering anesthetic to Republicans.