U.S. Senator just straight up revealed the real reason they are banning TikTok
U.S. Senator just straight up revealed the real reason they are banning TikTok
US Senator gives Bytedance their First Amendment case on a silver platter.
It'll be funny to see the courts try to ignore the brazen admissions like this.
real tension between corporation so all the rights and foreign so none of the rights
Honestly it would be 12x funnier if Bytedance got the WTO to declare this in violation of the charter and threatened to enforce the relevant punishments on the US if it doesn’t acquiesce.
may Allah awaken the people and help them to see the evil doings of Israel and the United States.
Same energy as John Bolton going on live television and telling everyone the reason why the US is sanctioning Venezuela is that "it's about the oil"
At work atm, so I don't have time to go find a video of it. But I distinctly remember it happened.
Yes. The US wants to take down any social media it can't control. The narrative was supposed to stay pro-Israel, and it didn't, and now Uncle Sam is PISSED.
A good rule of thumb is also to take note of what Americas puppet countries are doing.
Australia is going after Twitter at the moment, for example.
"State propaganda is losing reach."
we already knew this but it's mildly surprising they'd admit it publicly
reading this like
How can we possibly manufacture consent unless we seize the means of information distribution. Also, TikTok hurts meta and Xitter financially so really it should be nationalized (sold to another US backed corporation). Let the free market decide etcetera
every day I curse Hoover and his associative state
every day I curse Hoover and his associative state
Behold! The invisible hand!
Nice freedom of the press ya got there.
"We...worked on this story for a year...and...he just...he tweeted it out."
Doesn't most of the momentum on the tiktok ban predate oct 7th?
Facebook was behind an earlier attempt during the Trump admin.
The US will have seen warning signs before Oct 7. The point is that TikTok is popular and not under the control of the state department, the specific issue (in this case Israel-Palestine) is less relevant.
Yeah...TBH this seems more like either:
A) The thing that caused them to expedite something they already wanted to do.
B) This is less the quiet part out loud and more the thing they are allowed to say out loud in public. Like its more palatable and acceptable to call this the "end hamas grooming act" as opposed to the "Facebook and Meta relief act".
I think both are probably actual motivations that overlap.
No shit AIPAC and ADL money are one of main reasons why this was even passed so quickly.
I’m going to send these in to the vergecast hosts who dismissed the Zionist argument out of hand.
Building a PC was too hard for them.
They are so funny.
obvious motivation is obvious.
Gotta pump those numbers up
B-but CCP Xitler bad 😱😱😱😱😱😱
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Mask off moment.
Fun fact, the thumb of a senator that said this is a failson of the billionaire finance ghoul that owns the Chicago Cubs
Haven't they been talking about banning tik tok longer than the palestine/hamas issue?
Yes but the initial excuse was "China bad" which didn't have much momentum
Now that it's full of pro Palestine content and they've created excuses like "it's writhe with condoning antisemitism and terrorism". And 10 o clock news watchers lap it up.
I'm not defending tiktok btw, shits a terminally online slot machine of slop content.
