TBH the only surprising thing here is that outside the USA users can still search it. Apparently the "US-based" TikTok doesn't need to follow their own rules outside the USA, almost like ByteDance is still the majority owner and the algorithm is still in Beijing.
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Of course not, the CCP does not want to stir up their population.
American gamers who spam Taiwan/Tiananmen square in chat are in shambles
Why are you still using Tik-Tok.
You know it's compromised, yet still try to make it work.
They knew it was a Chinese info-stealing tool before and didn't care. But they weren't afraid of the Chinese administration coming to their house to threaten them.
Who are you talking too? Not likely to find many here.
not our users, but our families do. Luckily, my wife realized it was finally serious.
Just write it Esptien instead.
Mandela effect that shit! Bernstein bears, not that bernstain shit.
Suicide didn't Epstein himself.
Well sure, you didn't think Trump "saved" it did you. He bought it.
he didn't buy anything, he stole it :)
God, you Yankees are sure winning at everything
Hang on, TikTok is Chinese and controlled by the CCP and PLA. That's why I do not use the crap.
They transferred control to the US.
Epstein+Trump... just checking something
Doesn't look like anything to me.
If you haven't deleted your tiktok account by now, then I don't know what to tell you.
Good thing I never had a TikTok account.
Same
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.
Porn is life and life is porn. Seriously. Your conception was an act of pornography and some people find giving birth to be a turn on.
🤣🤣🤣
It is also ironic or coincidental. Not entirely sure but I'm getting married this weekend. So my porn consumption is at an all-time low! 🤷
Edit: I just realized that that sounds like a humble brag...
Starting to think centralizing the internet into platforms owned by far-right billionaires might have been a bad idea.
ByteDance is still the majority owner, btw. Beijing server is still online, as well.
Absolutely. Especially when it comes to social media.
Haha next you'll be telling me that allowing broadband cartels in the US to collude and conspire against consumers was a bad idea
Me reacting to that statement 30 years ago: Yeah ok it's the Illuminati controlling the world and doing evil shit. I'll be sure to hunt them down in the future smash hit game Deus Ex.
Me reacting to that statement 30 seconds ago: fuck
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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.
Screenshot! Going to post these around randomly
All the maga slop I drop these all over the comments
Jesus H. Christ!
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
Oh, the moment that fucking congress was involved, I knew they were all upset that millions of people were using a communication platform that they had zero eyeballs on. Worse yet, the only party that did was a foreign superpower. All of that is very bad news for entrenched politics, with people able to collectively invent a different mindset and/or get swayed by outside interests. The only way to fix this was ban it or own it somehow: the very two options floated at the time.
Meanwhile we narrowly avoided a precedent for a great firewall of our own.
What do you think the other social networks are for?
Yes, that is literally the point.
Save reason grok is allowed to generate CSAM but not unflattering images of Trump.
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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.
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