• itsPina [he/him, she/her]
    hexbear
    65
    2 months ago

    perfectly normal country where shit like this just gets tacked on to giant fopo bills

  • @freagle@lemmygrad.ml
    hexbear
    62
    2 months ago

    Weapons for Ukraine, weapons for Israel, ban tiktok, but literally let everyone domestically die of poverty, don't talk about abortion, and yell about people killing trans people and black people while increasing transfer of military weapons to police and increasing drilling for oil.

    And my lib friends still think there's a reason to hope that the Ds will make things better

  • TheModerateTankie [any]
    hexbear
    59
    2 months ago

    liberalism

    No longer will our children suffer from the evil chinese brainwashing machine!

  • BigBoyKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    54
    2 months ago

    It’s the only social media I use because the algorithm is so precise, it’s intensely trained on cat videos and possum videos. It doesn’t serve me anything else at this point, it’s a thing of beauty

    Fuck you Joe, I want cat and possum videos thurston possum-mama

    • Gorb [they/them]
      hexbear
      24
      2 months ago

      The algo is kinda insane cos it calibrates so fast and knows what i want at that point in time like it can read my fucking mind. Youtube either shows me videos that are already in my sub feed, videos I've already watched or fascist content

      • FourteenEyes [he/him]
        hexbear
        44
        2 months ago

        What it doesn't serve is right-wing garbage when you feed it literally anything, unlike YouTube and Twitter

        • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
          hexbear
          19
          2 months ago

          TikTok, this site, tumblr and a few reddit-logo subreddits are my only social media for this very reason.

          I can’t go two seconds anywhere else without getting a video saying that people like deserve to die just because it would be funny if we died. At least on these sites that number is slightly less.

          Nazis have the entire world as one big circlejerk for their ideas. All I want is one small circlejerk for my unpopular but correct ideas.

  • JayTwo [any]
    hexbear
    54
    2 months ago

    yeonmi-park
    In North Korea the media must serve the interests of the ruling class.
    If it doesn't it gets shut down under false pretenses.

  • Mokey [none/use name]
    hexbear
    37
    2 months ago

    i have never used tiktok but this is really shocking. i want to leave this country asap

  • EstraDoll [she/her]
    hexbear
    33
    2 months ago

    ah shit i knew i should have put all my money into VPN stocks

  • callTheQuestion [any]
    hexbear
    28
    2 months ago

    they don't have a problem with tik tok. the concern is the chinese ownership of tik tok. all that bad privacy stuff is no issue as long as the owners are "friends".

  • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
    hexbear
    27
    2 months ago

    Biden regime has ruled that media platform requires itself to be attached to a state apparatus for citizens to be allowed to use it.

  • @SSJ2Marx
    hexbear
    25
    2 months ago

    It's still pending legal challenge ofc, but from everything I've read they're only going to ban it from appearing on app stores, which should mean that anyone not on an Apple device can still install the app, and anyone with any device should still be able to access the website.

    So I'm expecting TikTok to continue to be very popular with Americans even after they're no longer "officially" supported.

  • Vingst [he/him]
    hexbear
    21
    2 months ago

    I think this will be overturned in the courts, but who knows what SCOTUS will decide.

    • @porcupine@lemmygrad.ml
      hexbear
      4
      2 months ago

      the funniest outcome will be SCOTUS overruling it, then upholding it when Trump bans it by executive order again