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TikTok is offline in the U.S. after Supreme Court upholds ban (www.npr.org)

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And they're already kissing Trump's ass

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (11 children)

I wish people knew that TikTok being banned was more about it not suppressing posts about Palestine than national security or whatever else they say. Antony Blinken and Mitt Romney outright said last year it was about stopping people from seeing the truth about Israel committing genocide. If the government actually cared about foreign influence operations they'd regulate data privacy and social media algorithms in some way (idk how, but I'm sure you could) but they obviously won't because US companies manipulating people and stealing their data is totally fine.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Blinken and Romney. name a more trustworthy duo!

ironic you talk about manipulating people in a comment that's goal is to...manipulate people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I don't trust either of them, but why would they lie about wanting to suppress support for Palestine? And if you don't believe me, the State Department has them on record saying as much: https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-at-mccain-institutes-2024-sedona-forum-keynote-conversation-with-senator-mitt-romney/

SENATOR ROMNEY: A small parenthetical point, which is some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down potentially TikTok or other entities of that nature. If you look at the postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians relative to other social media sites, it’s overwhelmingly so among TikTok broadcasts. So I’d note that’s of real interest, and the President will get the chance to make action in that regard.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

if your only evidence is two liars that are on the record lying about anything, anything in the record from them can never be considered the truth.

liars lie, regardless of if they tell the truth or not.

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