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by sneak 534 days ago
TikTok is indeed laden with pro-China propaganda. It also censors, outright or algorithmic demotion, content critical of the CCP. It also censors tons of other stuff unrelated to the CCP.

It doesn’t even need to be ideologically aligned; simple pursuit of engagement is sufficient motive for the observed behavior.
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seanmcdirmid 534 days ago
So are youtube shorts and facebook reels (mainly because tiktok content is copied to these platforms). Falun Dafa is also on tiktok, which is very very very Anti CCP, I'm sure the CCP is playing a long game here by allowing them to put their short videos on the platform (see https://www.tiktok.com/discover/the-persecution-of-falun-gon...).
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scarface_74 534 days ago
And Twitter is laden with pro-Trump propaganda. It also censors and at least promotes what its CEO and owner wants to be seen and demotes what it doesn’t want to be seen.

It’s CEO is going to have a lot more influence on policy and be a large part of the Trump administration and have an appointed position without divesting his ownership of Twitter.

You should be much more concerned about Twitter than TikTok. I wouldn’t even care about Twitter if Musk wasn’t going to become an official member of government post 1/20.

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cdme 534 days ago
Truth Social and Gab are quite similar, but smaller still. The intent here is clearly to punish foreign influence, not domestic and that's the first amendment carve out being used to push this through.

X, Truth Social and Gab are all malign (and arguably little better than 4chan or 8chan as homes for civil discussion) but are domestic in origin.

I'd rather wade into the ocean than join any of the above, but they aren't subject to the same legal carve out.

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scarface_74 534 days ago
I agree. But Musk either should have to sell Twitter or not be allowed to have an official role in the US government going forward
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cdme 534 days ago
Oh certainly. He has no interest in governing, he's interested in preserving (and assuredly) increasing the handouts subsidizing his businesses.

X is a political project being run at a loss. It's his blog, the remaining users are commenters.

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sneak 534 days ago
I think this is whataboutism, but regardless, I have been vocally critical of Twitter’s censorship for about half a decade, as well:

https://sneak.berlin/20201031/goodbye-twitter/

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