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NightOwl@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml · 8 个月前

US TikTok ban linked to pro-Palestine content rather than China threat, insiders reveal

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US TikTok ban linked to pro-Palestine content rather than China threat, insiders reveal

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US officials and lobbyists say the push to ban the Chinese-owned application gain momentum during the war on Gaza
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  • Saleh@feddit.org
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    With all the war crimes Israeli soldiers have filmed and uploaded themselves, it is a real threat to the American narratives.

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      i hope they keep doing that after tiktok goes away.

      the videos of american troops beating & dragging people out of their homes in gaza and forced onto auschwitz style trains of full people will only surface on rednote (if anywhere at all) before it gets banned like tiktok.

      if it weren’t for the video evidence recorded by american troops during ww2; the holocaust would be little more than a consipracy theory; so these videos are important to remind ourselves that the victims of one genocide are perfectly happy committing a genocide themselves and that the same world’s super power that has enabled and committed the worst of them will keep doing it no matter how much they insist it’s “unamerican”

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      Nikki Haley, another former Republican presidential candidate who last year infamously signed an Israeli bomb meant for Gaza with “finish them”, said she believed that simply watching videos on TikTok would make a user antisemitic.

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        Again, there is a different between hatred for the Jewish people and hate/dislike for the Israeli government and/or military. If you do not believe this, you are part of the problem.

        • ᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          They know it. They deliberately conflate being against the Israeli government and being antisemitic.

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            Under this rhetoric they sweep up even the pious Jewish.

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    No shit.

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    Call me a hopeless optimist, but maybe, just maybe, the next time they start calling something a security risk, we’ll get less people parroting this same bullshit.

    What do you mean, “Deepseek”?

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      deleted by creator

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        On the one hand, yes. On the other hand, Saddam’s PS2s remain undefeated.

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    No one with a brain actually thought the ban was because of China. This makes far more sense.

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      A lot of people on these forums don’t have brains, then. Which I agree with.

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      China is pro-Palestinian, so it’s still directly related

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    aha! the thing we knew all along

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    This doesn’t surprise me tbh, tiktok has been used for protests and organizing and that always pisses off the government more than liking china.

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    Bah, could have just as easily been cause someone said something that hurt Trump/Musk’s feelings.

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    That doesn’t track with Trump unbanning it

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      Trump is a fickle king, not a rational strategist. Trump unbanned Tiktok because 1. His son Baron asked him to, 2. To make Biden look bad, 3. Because Tiktok kissed the ring and made some back room deals with Trump

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      He only did that to make himself look good. He was the one who originally popularized banning it in the first place.

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      Palestine coverage was feared to swing election or make aipac look bad.

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      It helped win him the election.

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      Lol, this comment was legitimately censored for making the joke “Jews… are controlling the media?”

      Edit: I thought about it more, then did some quick searching and it actually shouldn’t be a joke.

      Didn’t take long at all to find these articles of people being punished in Hollywood for calling out Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.

      https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/hollywood-israel-palestine-criticism-melissa-barrera-scream-jenna-ortega-susan-sarandon-maha-dakhil-1234896903/

      https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/12/7/hollywoods-israel-problem

      https://variety.com/2024/film/news/hollywood-israel-palestine-susan-sarandon-roger-waters-1236208303/

      https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/hollywood-needs-reckoning-pro-israel-cancel-culture

      It’s sad that we’re not even allowed to mention how they censor us without being censored. That’s how bad it’s gotten.

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        Do not use anti-zionism (OK) as a guise for your antisemitism (bad)

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            This comment was censored for saying “You’re right. Zionists are controlling the media.”

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        Lol, this comment was legitimately censored for making the joke “Jews… are controlling the media?”

        Yes, antisemitism will be removed even when it’s a “joke.”

        Edit: I thought about it more, then did some quick searching and it actually shouldn’t be a joke.

        What shouldn’t be a joke?

        It’s sad that we’re not even allowed to mention how they censor us without being censored.

        We know where “ironic” bigotry tends to lead: to an online space becoming a Nazi bar.

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        It’s not censorship; it’s content moderation — how hard is it to not make racist jokes on an ostensibly ML forum‽

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          It is 100% censorship when what I’m saying accurately describes reality.

          We’re literally not allowed to say the truth because of censorship.

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