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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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Post by saubeidl »

joe_mamba wrote: post #45
saubeidl wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shooting somebody that is already constrained is an execution, not an accident. It's what fascist regimes do to anyone they deem noncompliant.

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Nobody assaulted anyone. Shooting somebody that is already on the ground in the back of their head is not self defence. ICE is not law enforcement.

Impressively, you managed to misrepresent a fact with every single word in your sentence.

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

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Post by tanganik »

ilogik wrote: post #15
oefrha wrote: post #11

This is quite out of character for a lawn mower; lawn mowers shouldn't care.

for those curious about the lawn mower: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2312s

More context: the video speaks about Oracle and TikTok has been bought by an investor group headed by Oracle's Larry Ellison (which the article also references).

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Post by docdeek »

That’s not a very convincing article. One person leaving TikTok claiming she was silenced, and another where a claim of silencing is made but, within 24 hours, the ‘silenced’ video "has more than 220,000 views and over 70,000 likes”. Perhaps there is some silencing going on, but it doesn’t appear that there is much evidence of it in this particular article.

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Post by 0x3f »

keybored wrote: post #42
0x3f wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

This was the logic the West used throughout the life of the Soviet Union but for [Cc]ommunism.

Arguably people still do this with 'socialism'. Calling everything communism is now a bit _too_ cliche.

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Post by Alifatisk »

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm wrote: post #41
Alifatisk wrote: post #22

Is the country falling apart? So many extreme events is happening over there.

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Doesn’t more and more countries fall into the enemies category as Trump is ruining international relationships?

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Post by SilverElfin »

iinnPP wrote: post #18

This isn't very compelling. It's 2 anecdotes and a pretty damning final paragraph. Is there any more reliable data?

Data? No. None of these companies are making their data freely available for analysis or being transparent about how their algorithms work. People have complained for a while that Twitter / X seems to suppress the visibility and reach of profiles or posts that disagree with Musk’s views. The recent open sourcing of their algorithm is meaningless since there’s no evidence of what they actually have in production or what data / configuration is used with it.

So the best we can do is anecdotal examples. And it’s also obvious that Trump avoided banning TikTok for months, illegally, because he wanted to have another platform serve as a mouthpiece. He now has that by forcing a sale of TikTok to his friend, Larry Ellison.

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Post by saubeidl »

joe_mamba wrote: post #47
saagarjha wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe we shouldn’t have a system where these happen.

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You think the appropriate punishment for interfering with a simple administrative act is gunshots to the back of the head? Are you even reading what you're saying???

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Post by 0x3f »

joe_mamba wrote: post #34
0x3f wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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Possibly the police will come bother you, but you're not being convicted.
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