Palestinians getting to broadcast the horrors visited upon them by zionists is bad. /s
What happened to us (Americans)? We used to look down on Soviet propaganda and book burning; congratulating ourselves on our free speech. Now we’re burning books and outlawing news sources that don’t abide by the official propaganda. It’s sickening.
I’m British, we recently had Brexit. It will be “we have book burning but it’s different to that book burning”, or something like that anyway.
I guess I am going to give my kids access to my VPN I don't trust the government at all any more
Yes because nobody is talking about the Palestine/Israel situation on any other social media platforms. /s
The more likely reason is that it's a social media company that the government currently has zero control over. Being owned by a (Taiwanese?) company the US can't ask them to track data and the CIA/FBI can't fill it with propaganda or whatever else they want.
Real 'chicken or egg' vibes with that one
It's based in China, not Taiwan. (They are different countries, IMO.)
My apologies, I got the Asian countries all jumbled up in my head. The CEO of TikTok is from Singapore, but the parent company of TikTok (ByteDance) is Chinese.
So throw in a layer of national security concerns and it makes far more logical sense why they want to have China sell the US side of TikTok to an American owned company.
I still don't think the Palestine situation has much of anything to do with what's going on with the US governments distain for TikTok. They didn't like it way before the Israel/Palestine situation kicked off again.
Yes because nobody is talking about the Palestine/Israel situation on any other social media platforms. /s
But are they?
I know they are on Fediverse sites, but is it really being discussed on Twitter and Facebook?
Reddit, twitter, Facebook, Twitch, YouTube, tiktok and now Lemmy. I can't think of a single social media site I've used in the last year that didn't have people talking about Palestine in one way or another.
It's why I doubt the claim that the US government is specifically trying to ban tiktok because of the Palestine/Israel situation. They wanted TikTok gone before the October 7th 2023 attack.
I believe it's more likely a nation security issue being owned by a Chinese company than anything to do with Palestine whatsoever.
This just shows that you haven't been paying attention. Pro-palestine content is moderated off those platforms as "anti-semitic". Raise your hand below if reddit has banned you for being anti-zionist.
The /s at the end means he was being sarcastic.
But truthfully, there are some places (such as isolated bubbles on Facebook, I would expect) where people honestly believe that opposition to Israel is based on antisemitism, being unaware of the genocide.
The /s at the end means he was being sarcastic.
Right, which leads me to believe that they are implying that people are talking about the Palestine / Israel situation on other platforms.
I don't go on FB often, but when I do I never see anything on there about Israel. I never go on Twitter, but from what I've heard any mention of genocide is met with accusations of antisemitism and the conversation is shut down.
This is the real reason for the ban.
"National security" just translates to "public opinion of the war(s)"
Mitt Romney might just be the only member of the GOP with at least a single honest bone in his body.
So that's who the democrats will run in 2028
Well we'll have an actual primary if there's an election so if he gets through a democratic primary, that's on democrat voters. I also don't think he wants to run.
Irritatingly plausible. I'm going to be stoked if we get another election at all though.
This isn’t a statement rooted in honesty or morality. This is saying the quiet part out loud.
Still an evil fuck.
Yeah, its just nice when they're honest about it.
US republicans will be like: "8 men should own this country and everyone else can die in the gutter". US democrats will be like: "We need to reframe the conversation about the lived experiences of so many of our constituents, and reach solutions that include these realities [policies not different from those above]".
Democrats are evil fucks too. But not evil enough that I’m going to give Mitt Romney any credit.
The least evil fuck is still an evil fuck.