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Mitt Romney Admits Push to Ban TikTok Is Aimed at Censoring the Palestinian Genocide. (www.commondreams.org)

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is the real reason for the ban.

"National security" just translates to "public opinion of the war(s)"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Its more simplified to "lack of ability to control the narrative" and also "My billionaire masters cant turn a profit from it"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

It has diverted traffic and money away from sites such as Twitter, FB and Amazon after TT videos called them out and offered alternatives or avoiding completely/anticonsumerism perspectives.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And yet they were trying to ban it years before any of that happened...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The last time the US was not involved in a war was 1998

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

Kosovo and Iraq want a word, the US has literally never not been involved in a war in some capacity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

There are boatloads of wars usa tries to hide all the time