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fin ,

TikTok isn’t your “right”, and if you say that banning tiktok is talking away your rights, TikTok’s taking away people’s lives

Adkml ,

"Can you do something so that any given incel can't shoot 30 of us while we hide under our desk." - kids

"Literally go fuck yourself also no tik tok because it could be dangerous." - government

bigfoot ,

Relax nobody is taking away your TikToks

reverendsteveii ,

it would be one thing if they were actually going to ban it, but the plan is pretty plainly for deep state establishment to seize it so that the US government can do all the awful things that they're accusing the Chinese government of doing. Remember y'all, the difference between information and propaganda is "Do I like the person who is currently speaking?" and nothing more.

raccoona_nongrata ,
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  • reverendsteveii ,

    I didn't say anything was made up or that China was doing anything good. You put the phrase "made up" in quotes. Find it in my original comment if you're quoting me.

    What I did say was that the US government is angling to steal China's propaganda apparatus to use for itself and pretending that it's protecting us.

    Read better.

    RaoulDook ,

    If it truly was a "free speech platform" the ownership wouldn't matter either way, right?

    reverendsteveii ,

    swing and a miss

    the point is that they're trying to pretend they're protecting us from propaganda by seizing the propaganda platform and operating it themselves. you don't trust the CCP and neither do I. Let's take that as read. do you trust the US government? if this is dangerous, why not shut it down? hell, why not go a step further and make it illegal for anyone to do?

    bigfoot ,

    Lemmy is mostly children isn't it

    ano_ba_to ,

    This place is not only for people wanting to get away from Reddit because of their poor policies. This apparently is also a place for people who got away from reddit because they have shitty opinions that weren't tolerated even there.

    GardenVarietyAnxiety ,

    It's because Epstein's island is a honeypot </tinfoil-hat>

    Gabu ,

    A honeypot trap that's never used as a trap is just free honey.

    Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

    Of course the island was a honeypot trap. How else did Epstein create all his compact discs with handwritten labels including: “‘Young [Name] + [Name],’

    Eyck_of_denesle ,

    American political posts and the comments never fail to disappoint me.

    TheControlled ,
    • Are different, unrelated things
    • Involve different parts of government
    • Involve different people in charge
    • Is smoothbrain understanding of criminal investigations
    • Is smoothbrain understanding of due process

    I'm starting to fly down some 'conspiracy hole' about this shit: I can't trust or even hope that the avalanche of memes like these aren't Chinese (or Russian? they love stirring our shit up for the lulz) in origin. This paranoia reinforces itself in a loop

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