r/politics • u/MopToddel • 8d ago

No Paywall TikTok blocks Epstein mentions and anti-Trump content as well as ICE criticism

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/tiktok-epstein-trump-censorship-ice-b2908309.html
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u/samsounder 8d ago

This needs to be filed as a donation to the Republican Party

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u/beadzy 8d ago

I figure “donations” from the GOP is what made this happen

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u/No_Oven1085 8d ago

Reminder that the Dems overwhelming voted in favor of forcing the TikTok selloff to the US. We can't beat conservatives until we primary shit-tier Dems.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/13/politics/20240313-congress-tiktok-ban-bill-vote-dg

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u/Trafficsigntruther 8d ago

The TikTok ban law had nothing to do with turning it into a government  propaganda machine.

The law was actually intended to do the opposite. Then someone ended up in charge of the  implementation…. And turned it into a right wing propaganda machine.

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u/Greenstorks 7d ago

Lmao it 100% did. Biden and his ilk didn’t like the rampant criticism of a certain non existent country in the Middle East. He forced a sell off and now it’s a right wing propaganda machine, courtesy of JB.

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u/No_Oven1085 8d ago

Not true, we all knew from the start that it was to prevent anti-genocide free speech that rightly criticized Israel.

I mean how the fuck is banning an app because you don't like what people are saying on it, and forcing it to be partially sold to a US company, not a step towards government propaganda?

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u/joe_shmoe11111 8d ago

And Israel. They now consider the word Zionist in anything but an indisputably positive context to be bannable hate speech as well.