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by throw_m239339 2105 days ago
> There you have it. I've seen TikTok videos go viral being really critical of the US government including its foreign policy. The kind of video that would just be invisible or outright banned from Youtube or Facebook video. That's why they want to get rid of it.

Videos such as? Seems to me that the kind of videos banned on Youtube, Twitter or Facebook aren't really the ones that are really critical of the US government, especially the executive branch.
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mistermann 2105 days ago
I'm not saying this went viral, but I did encounter it while just normally browsing TikTok.

https://www.tiktok.com/@jperkinsauthor/video/686526224212490...

I think the US has more than a few skeletons in its closet that they'd prefer remain there, so having a means of exerting control over popular platforms seems like plain old common sense.

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jml7c5 2105 days ago
The same sort of content (including many re-hosted videos) is available on his Twitter page, so I'm not sure this is evidence for anything.
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mistermann 2105 days ago
The ask was:

> I've seen TikTok videos go viral being really critical of the US government including its foreign policy.

I posted an example of a video that is critical of the US government including its foreign policy. This seems like reasonable evidence that one can find videos critical of the US government including its foreign policy on the TikTok platform.

Noteworthy is that TikTok is a distinctly different platform than Twitter in many ways. One might even go so far as to say that it's possible that TikTok may even have the possibility of being a more influential platform than Twitter, particularly for certain demographics such as young people, who often have impressionable minds and openness for new ideological beliefs.

A potential example of the power of ideological beliefs might be observing that intelligent, rational people in a forum will downvote someone who literally provides an example of what someone else asked for. Imagine what sort of mass behavior modification could be achieved with an ongoing campaign designed by people who have a deep understanding of human psychology, leveraging the capabilities of a platform like TikTok that is well proven at propagating memes.

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