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I have had every single comment of these two photos removed and threatened with a ban. They are actively trying to suppress this.
Starting to think centralizing the internet into platforms owned by far-right billionaires might have been a bad idea.
“We have to fight with the weapons that apply to the battlefields in which we’re engaged. And the most important ones are on social media. And the most important purchase that is going on right now is TikTok. Number one. Number one.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in September.
One rich asshole called Larry Ellison is a large part of the purchase. He’s a VERY close ally of Israel and his son David runs Paramount Skydance. Larry’s backing their acquisition of Warner Bros.
The Ellison family has a very big say on what media gets created and watched in the US now.
How is this NOT government censorship? How is this NOT a direct violation of everyone’s freedom of speech rights???
edit: yes I Know tikkk tokkk is a private company, but they are doing the censorship at the direction of, and for the benefit of the white house.
I downloaded tiktok when it first came out scrolled through it for a while. Realized there was no porn on it and then uninstalled it.
So the reason why Tik Tok was not allowed to run as a Chinese company, was not to prevent Chinese propaganda but to allow for US propaganda
