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

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Post by asadotzler »

wat10000 wrote: post #63
gruez wrote: post #25

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>is all about hiding information from the US public that most people in the rest of the world have easy access to. Are we talking about the Trump administration or the Biden administration? The current ban was passed under Biden with supermajorities in both houses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efforts_to_ban_TikTok_in_the_U... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_Americans_from_Fore...

The current nonsense has been enabled by decades of overreach. A small minority kept saying, this stuff is going to be really bad if a bad guy takes power. Well, guess what happened.

The bad guys would have done it anyway. That's the important part. "Good guys shouldn't make tools because bad guys might (or will) use them" isn't how we should operate. No more should we say "the [internet|source code|pen testing tools|etc] could be used by bad guys so good guys shouldn't have it."

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Post by jacquesm »

babypuncher wrote: post #592
AIorNot wrote: post #563

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Lets remember that tech bros have been explicitly funding the oppression 25 Million donation to MAGA from Brockman alone! I suspect he is a single issue donor (AI infra above all) https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/867947/o... Its insane how immoral people can be - anyone can see Trump is a conman

These "single issue donors" are the most morally corrupt. I can understand someone who genuinely believes in the cause, even if that cause is disgusting. But this guy...this guy knows that the things happening are wrong, and he doesn't care as long as he gets what he wants from this administration. These people should be made social pariahs.

You can pretty much lump all of the billionaire bootlickers in the same category. Almost none of them have any ethics, whilst of course proclaiming the opposite.

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Post by SilverBirch »

_DeadFred_ wrote: post #374
SilverBirch wrote: post #336

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No, they also access information through Facebook owned by Trump ally Zuckerberg, X owned by Trump doner and DOGE former official Musk, or via media organisations like CBS who have recently had their editorial standards changed to be more friendly to the regime. It's fine though people can here about the regime through neutral pundits like Jimmy Kimmel, who definitely hasn't come under any pressure to comply with the…

We were so naive in the 2000s. 'Tech will democratize everything' forgetting they will just flood us with bullshit so that nothing means anything.

Well isn't it interesting that at the same time that these social media platforms were getting off the ground, the VC class decided founder control was super important and now essentially all of the biggest companies in the world are in the sole control of men who do questionable activies on islands in the Caribbean.

Now you wonder what these companies are doing to shape events, and the answer is that Tim Cook is attending a private showing of a PR project for the wife of the president premiering on a competing streaming network whilst people hold vigils for the people that the regime has murdered.

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Post by somenameforme »

TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #342
lostlogin wrote: post #263

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

It would not surprise me in the least to discover that China is the true source of the current internal attack on the US, and Russia is a cut out. It would be efficient for China to have Russia undermine the US while Russia also weakens itself. China has made huge inroads in Africa, which gives it access to essential metals and other raw materials, and also puts it in a strong position diplomatically.

America's history is basically one long story of internal divisions, briefly overcome primarily during economic booms. The last economic boom, the computing/internet boom, was particularly long lived and helped create the longest window of internal stability we've had. That boom's coming to an end, and the era of stability it brought probably isn't that far behind. And this is before you even stop to consider things like social media which helps amp up and accelerate divisions by orders of magnitude.

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Post by pshirshov »

direwolf20 wrote: post #409
pshirshov wrote: post #34

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How can that be that during any single administration there always are bipartisan votes in favor of digital surveillance and censorship, oh, I mean online protection for kids and puppies? Pure coincidence I think. Boden's good, Grump's bad, simple as that. Or Grump's good, Boden's bad doesn't matter.

One is clearly worse than the other on some issues — only one of them executed US citizens in the street for protesting, during both terms.

Choose your alignment wisely! You can only serve the Good or the Evil!

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Post by staplers »

toyg wrote: post #606
animal_spirits wrote: post #523

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I do love this song and I find it resonates to read the lyrics as though revolutions are censored by media (which is true). Though I found an interview with Gil Scott-Heron about the meaning of the lyrics and I find it more interesting; The revolution will not be televised because the revolution starts in your mind, at the dinner table, or reading books in the library. It won't be captured on TV because the revolutio…

One of the joys of poetry is that it can contain multiple hard-to-describe facets of the same concept. * The revolution won't be televised because they won't show it to you. * The revolution won't be televised because it's not a passive, external experience that you just consume. * The revolution won't be televised because it starts inside yourself.

Art in general is this way. It's no wonder the more we abstract away our lives and society (through screens, deliveries, etc) the more abstract art feels more relevant to our experience.

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Post by bigfishrunning »

smw wrote: post #595
jmyeet wrote: post #240

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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…

Isn't the web federated?

Sure is! the issue is that people's attention isn't -- most people on the web stick to a few web pages; their social media of choice (facebook, tiktok, etc...) and their news provider of choice (CNN, Fox, NBC).

Putting up a website is easy, pulling traffic away from bigger sites is much more difficult

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Post by jimbokun »

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 seems to be an argument that defense spending is never legitimate?

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Post by _Donny »

A few weeks ago, I reported a compilation video of ICE officers beating people. The description included the phrase "The deportations will continue :)".

I reported it for promoting violence, but TikTok found no violation of its guidelines.

It probably didn't help that the video was posted by the official White House TikTok account..

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