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On American TikTok users cannot seatch the phrase "Donald trump rigged election", however when using a vpn to a mexican server the search does return results.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

but guys, I've been assured by Lemmy's most vocal tiktok supporters that tiktok is the last bastion of free speech. it's a place where you're free to express yourself without restrictions.

are you telling me that tiktok lied and those poor people were just paid troll accounts?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 55 minutes ago

That was before the blackout. Now a new TikTok has taken its place and everyone is talking about it on there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

So basically a bad conspiracy theory

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 hours ago

I've seen this posted elsewhere. Apparently it also doesn't show results for "Joe Biden rigged election"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

Shocking

Well…

[–] [email protected] 80 points 9 hours ago

Heh, funny how that works

[–] [email protected] 45 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I'm suspicious that the ban would have been upheld if everyone jumped over to Twitter. But the scam failed when everyone went to red note.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I guarantee people are right back on tiktok now that it's back up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Plan b extort TikTok to do propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 29 minutes ago

Plan A is do propaganda.

The apps are chapters on that plan. Meta will follow, bluesky might when somehow it's threatened with a ban.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 hours ago

Imagine that.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 hours ago

I mean that is a pretty shit conspiracy theory.

Searching "Trump Election Lie" does return results. So I don't think they're actually censoring so much as stopping real misinformation.

Link

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

That's disfavorable of Trump? I thought it was one of his main talking points.

I guess it would be disfavorable if it referred to 2024 rather than 2020, but claiming 2024 was rigged doesn't seem to be a big thing so I expect that most of the search results would have been about 2020.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

There is speculation that the 2024 election was rigged and it was the most recent election so I would expect that there would be more recent posts about it than the 2020 election.

Example: https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/85d8ac97-7ebe-48ba-8582-a1078511594f.png

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Why would Trump say that!? I think it's just him being incoherent, but it would be a confession from anyone who isn't regularly so incoherent.

Edit: Maybe Trump meant to say that he won because Musk protected the machines from tampering?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

He knows that even if the election was confirmed to be rigged, there’s nothing that will be done about it at this point.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Second image failed to load for me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Im on mobile I'll try and re post it when I get home

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I think it's because you uploaded (or at least formatted) it as an inline image so when you changed the title the url was replaced.

Edit: lose the leading "!" if you want a clickable link with your chosen text, or leave it there and remove anything between "(" and ")" to have the image appear in your comment directly. In both cases you want the url between "[" and "]"

!()[url of image you want to appear directly in your comment]

or

!(text you want)[url of image or anything you want to link to]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I edited the post, hopefully its visible now. Here it is just in case:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Thanks! It's fixed for me too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

That works!

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

I'll stay on Rednote until our "free" country bans that too to maintain capitalist control of the narrative.

We can talk about Luigi without our "free" country censoring us on our billionaire fascist owned social media, too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

you literally just invoked his name. without restrictions. no retribution.

you are either the best useful idiot, or the worst troll.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Dare you to talk about Taiwan see what happens. Fuck off with this "free" shit.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

They don't ironically gush about being the free speech people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Yeah that makes moral sense. It's fine to commit genocide as long as you don't deny it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

You think we're still capitalist? Im not sure what to call the economy of this protofascist state but it isn't capitalist with the amount the new administration is backing specific businesses.

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

That's still capitalism. I believe that might fall under cronyism? That, or simply oligarchy would work. But it's still capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

In capitalism the state is expressly not interfering on behalf of one business versus another. This would be like a communist state that had a stock market. It fundamentally goes against acore principle of the philosophy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Then, the US hasn't been capitalist in a long time. Probably never was. The government has always interfered in the interest of one group or another. Sometimes, that group is (was) the public at large when it comes to labor or environmental rights. Sometimes, it's in favor of big business. Oftentimes, it is. Interfering on behalf of one specific big business over another is just the latest step in the road of corruption that has been brazen since Citizens United was passed.

The invisible hand of the free market has never existed. The rich have always been kept in check by government interference.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

East India Company?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago

Is the insanely slow loading speed from midwest.social part of the censorship?