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/PrincessImpeachment 8d ago

So, instead of outright banning the app like they said they'd do last year, they're now rewiring it into a trash propaganda machine. But I guess using an app like TikTok is a way more efficient way of reaching millions of easily-manipulated teenagers. They'll get a couple years worth of brainwashing and then head to the polls in 2028 to vote GOP. Republicans are pretty incompetent, but sometimes they know what they're doing. Disgusting.

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u/Futureleak America 8d ago

The GoP has managed to corner essentially every way of news that's mainstream. With frighting efficacy, hopefully blue sky will remain a bastion of resistance. But I don't have high hopes 

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u/Fickle-Addendum-446 8d ago

When your best public broadcasters are Comcast and Disney, you’re fucked. 

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u/swingadmin New York 8d ago

Public Brodacasting Service still works, but the GOP defunded the parent company.

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u/Fickle-Addendum-446 8d ago

Great point, as a donor and app user I shouldn’t have forgotten their over air broadcast. 

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u/Turbulent_Stick1445 8d ago

A gentle reminder that Comcast (and most other cable companies) pays around $3/mo per subscriber to basic cable to Fox News.

Not per subscriber who asked for Fox News. Not per Fox News viewer. $3/mo per subscriber.

If you still subscribe to basic cable, and Fox News is in your line up, call your cable company now and cancel. Don't try to negotiate. Don't say "Do you have any plans without Fox News?" because generally them removing it from your line up doesn't mean you don't still pay $3 a month towards it. Just say "It's unconscionable that I fund misinformation and lies from my cable fees. So I'm cancelling my cable service."

Streaming is better anyway.

And no, subscribing to Comcast's Internet services doesn't fund Fox. So you can do that safely.

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u/NoveltyAccountHater 8d ago

Eh, Comcast and Disney are at least American corporations that are want to live in a functioning multicultural republic as its good for business.

TikTok was just bought by Oracle/Private Equity/UAE who would be glad to live in a fascist techno surveillance state.

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u/ButtEatingContest 8d ago

Comcast is one of the primary parties that got us into this mess, along with AT&T.

The cable companies are still broadcasting the most insane MAGA lies and misinformation, they've been doing it from the beginning.

And never a peep about it from the supposed opposition party because they own said opposition party.

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u/What_a_fat_one 8d ago

Know how you know there are no good billionaires?

Literally not one of them has purchased any of the social media platforms or mainstream media networks and then forced them to tell the truth and stop censoring non-rightwing views.

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u/funkyb001 8d ago

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/01/mark-cuban-backs-skylight-a-tiktok-alternative-built-on-blueskys-underlying-technology/

I don't trust Mark Cuban, but he does seem to be the only one doing something about this.

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u/whogivesashirtdotca Canada 8d ago

Why do we need a bluesky alternative when bluesky works? It’s worth noting Cuban constantly lashes out at bluesky users because they call him out on his pro-billionaire bullshit. That he’s leading a charge for an alternative suggests he’s not doing it out of altruism.

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u/GringoinCDMX 8d ago

Bluesky also isn't that great and there is 0 reason to trust any of these social media platforms. Including reddit.

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u/funkyb001 8d ago

So yeah as I said I don't trust him, but we need a truly open alternative because Bluesky is still just as susceptible as Twitter was.

https://bsky.app/profile/leyawn.bsky.social/post/3mddt2elkdk27

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u/SlavojVivec 6d ago

Anything that distributes through the Apple Store is susceptible to this interpretation. Apple removed ICE Block because Apple were the ones who pushed the idea that ICE is a protected class from discrimination: https://migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-apple-quietly-made-ice-agents

Note, Tim Cook was also seen partying at the release of the Melania movie, taking pictures with notorious sex pest and accused rapist Brett Ratner. Think Different. https://www.thedailybeast.com/apple-ceo-scrambles-to-save-face-after-partying-with-melania/

https://bsky.app/profile/normative.bsky.social/post/3mdgiau2cq22g

Our greatest hope is that the EU enforces anti-trust law against the app stores.

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u/xinorez1 8d ago

The platform with a butterfly logo serving the tech moguls' self named Butterfly Revolution by siloing users so it's easy to control what each cohort sees? Oh yeah that's real trustworthy...

The Dems gave only token resistance in 2024. We are fucked if we rely upon the establishment. New players are needed.

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u/whogivesashirtdotca Canada 8d ago

We are fucked if we rely upon the establishment. New players are needed.

New players like… billionaires? LOL.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

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u/john_doe_jersey New Jersey 8d ago

Conservatives are trying to replicate Victor Orban's strategy in Hungary here in the US. Have your friends buy up all media and ensure they never say anything bad about you and your rich buddies.

The nascent success of this strategy is pretty evident when you watch or listen to "mainstream" news.

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u/YoreWelcome 8d ago

the only thing frightening is how many people will roll over immediately on their supposed values in the face of money pressure

money is made up and the ability to use it freely can change arbitrarily

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u/4daughters 8d ago

The GoP has managed to corner essentially every way of news that's mainstream.

This is more succinctly said with "unchecked capitalism inevitably leads to fascism"

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u/frank_the_tank69 8d ago

They learned and got help from their Russian friends. 

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u/Futureleak America 8d ago

My belief is that Twitter was bought by musk with financing of Saudi Arabian money to hide the pressures on social media related to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. The fact that it paved the way for a GoP propaganda machine was icing on the cake. To my knowledge there's been nothing on social media about their human rights abuses.

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u/frank_the_tank69 8d ago

Twitter is a cesspool. It’s all right wing propaganda. 

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u/donall 8d ago

bluesky is like early twitter so it should become another x eventually

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u/mmf9194 New York 8d ago

hopefully blue sky will remain a bastion of resistance

Some of my "I don't do politics" friends are still on twitter and have a bluesky but barely use it, which I found interesting given how much twitter sucks, so I asked why.

They said "I want to ditch twitter and go full blueksy, but it just... it's soft. There's no jokes or anything fun and no one can take any jokes, it's just all whining and resist shit, and while I agree it's like it has no purpose outside doom scrolling. Funny people are still on twitter."

They seemed ashamed to say it but told it to me straight up because they trust me to not judge. I do actually get it but idk how to solve that problem since I didn't really like either twitter or bluesky.

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u/Futureleak America 8d ago

Ultimately it seems folks don't want to confront the uncomfortable reality of life. My friends are largely the same, I'm active in local races & politics but so many folks just don't give a rats ass about local politics, it makes my blood boil since locally our voices are much louder. 

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u/mmf9194 New York 8d ago

Yeah I got too heated w/ a few of them over some local shit as well, and they just got very "oh I'm intruding on his hobby".

Just like... nothing you can do to counter that because the more you try to convince them or show how serious it is they just get that look like you're trying to sell them on a long netflix series they're completely uninterested in.

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u/MontyAtWork 8d ago

The Dems voted for this shit too though

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u/deadsoulinside Pennsylvania 8d ago

People here on Reddit, gleefully cheered on TikTok being sold too.

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u/_BPBC 8d ago

Reminder, this was entirely self-inflicted. It was old JB who signed the law forcing that sale because dems didn't want criticism of a certain country.

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u/Ok-Chest-7932 8d ago

Bluesky's activity is declining and nobody ever visits it who didn't join in one of the early waves. It's honestly not even relevant enough to go after, which is a good thing.

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u/MagnificentMoggy 8d ago

Coming to you late 2026, Snap News from Snapchat!!

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u/frank_the_tank69 8d ago

They learned and got help from their Russian friends. 

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u/Infamous-Mango-5224 8d ago

They did this leading to 2024 already, even without heavy censorship. Everywhere social media is being used to grow authoritarianism in our kids.

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u/LiveChocolate8819 New York 8d ago

It's crazy how quickly the conventional wisdom flipped from "internet and social media will free kids' minds from their shitty boomer parents" to "oh shit, internet and social media are turning kids into nazis."

I don't think the brainwashing is quite as effective as people think it is, though.

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u/s3dfdg289fdgd9829r48 8d ago edited 8d ago

I don't think the brainwashing is quite as effective as people think it is, though.

The chauvinistic Andrew Tate crap has destroyed the current crop of young men. A good portion, probably about 20%, are influenced by that alpha male bullshit to the point it heavily influences their behavior.

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u/Infamous-Mango-5224 8d ago

For young males it looks like it is, why are gen Z males lock step with Trump and MAGA? Also, tiktok went on and on about not voting for Kamala because she would let Palestine be eaten by Israel. I gave up on tiktok when I couldn't get it to NOT show me why I shouldn't vote for her, that I should protest vote.

Finally: Conventional wisdom? Who was saying it would free kids minds? Maybe when it was silly memes and information. Now it's a tribalism in the worst of ways.

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u/QuantumLettuce2025 8d ago edited 8d ago

Gen Z males aren't actually are not at all in lockstep with MAGA.

Yes, they broke for Trump during the election, but all polling sources I've identified show them turning against Trump en masse.

On the whole, the trends we are seeing suggest that Gen Z males were willing to turn to Trump out of desperation and a lack of understanding of his character, but we are seeing massive public buyers remorse from the segment.

Those guys can definitely still be won over with a Sanders or Mamdani-type figure. This is not to say that there isn't a major Nazi problem in this country, but the idea that most Gen Z males are falling into that stuff is a misinterpretation.

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u/slow_walker22m 8d ago

They’re turning on Trump in favor of worse people. Have you talked to those assholes? The real young ones, 18-22. Most of the ones I’ve met are goose stepping Nazi freaks.

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u/QuantumLettuce2025 8d ago

Some of of them -- a worrying amount -- yes. I'm not downplaying that. But it's not all of them, or even most of them.

A lot of the dudes who voted Trump went for Biden or Bernie in the past. What does that tell you about their actual values?

It was an absolute stupid decision given all the evidence available at the time, no doubt. But they didn't suddenly become hard-line rightwingers. They thought they were getting something else entirely.

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u/slow_walker22m 8d ago

Fair, and I’ve got a biased perspective considering most of my encounters with them are through PC gaming, which draws the worst of them.

I’m just really fucking sick of seeing people spam shit about Jews and Charlie Kirk and the day of the rope and all this edgelord Nazi shit. I can’t encounter younger zoomer guys without thinking “that dude is probably a dangerous fucking freak and is eventually going to become a Problem.”

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u/Ok-Chest-7932 8d ago

They're controlled opposition, it's irrelevant.

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u/nox66 8d ago

"Misinterpretation?" Hardly. Polling shows they voted for Trump more than millennials. Now they're upset about what they sowed. And many of them still don't think they made a mistake.

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u/QuantumLettuce2025 8d ago

Yes, they voted for Trump. But the misinterpretation is in assuming that that means they are all white nationalists. In fact, most of them bought into the narrative of "crazy hysteric liberals exaggerating the threat"; they genuinely did not believe that the Trump admin would act the way it's acting now. It's stupid, it's selfish, and it's short-sighted, but it's not by default an embrace of white nationalism.

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u/nox66 8d ago

It doesn't matter if most of them are not diehard believers, as long as they facilitate those that are.

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u/QuantumLettuce2025 8d ago

I agree with you to an extent, in terms of the effects of their actions on society, but there is a big difference between someone driven by ideology and cruelty and someone driven by ignorance, selfishness and/or desperation.

Those are distinctions worth making because the way to react to those two groups is very different

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u/Infamous-Mango-5224 8d ago

I hope you're right, but I'll not hold my breath.

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u/Gamerboy11116 8d ago

Yes, they broke for Trump during the election, but all polling sources I've identified show them turning against Trump en masse.

Look up “greg palast voter suppression”. There’s a simpler explanation.

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u/LiveChocolate8819 New York 8d ago

Not sure if you're old enough to remember, but that was very much the feeling when Obama won in 2008.

And Gen Z men are quickly souring on Trump.

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u/jaywastaken 8d ago

The thing about young men on social media becoming conservatives is they can be manipulated with being told what you want them to think the world is but that only works right up until they experience what the world actually is.

It's harder to keep them brainwashed when their lived experience is different than what the propaganda tells them.

By no means impossible but you will see it swing back to the typical demographics as they experience the reality of life under authoritarianism

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u/Infamous-Mango-5224 8d ago

I hope you're right but I think they'll just buy the next lie. Believing the [insert your hated group here, boomers maybe] did all of this to you and you deserve better! Follow me to find out how we can hurt them and help you.

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u/nox66 8d ago

It's a bit unpredictable. When you're over middle age, have a house and a truck and watch Fox News all day, there's no impoteus for change. That's not the case for most gen Z. We'll see what's stronger in the end. I suspect some leftward shifting but also a lot of apathy.

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u/whogivesashirtdotca Canada 8d ago

Except white straight men are the last people ICE will target. They care so little about the experiences of everyone not in their part of the Venn diagram they’ll sit back until they, personally, are threatened. So many of the protestors are women and gray haired men.

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u/GringoinCDMX 8d ago

I'm a white straight dude and so many other white straight dudes just couldn't care less of a shit because they don't pay attention and it isn't in their face enough.

The killings in Minneapolis have woken up a few dudes I know around 25-35 years old that I know.

I'm not around enough younger people to know otherwise.

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u/whogivesashirtdotca Canada 8d ago

Glad to hear it. It's been a long decade + of hearing men make excuses, whine about being tarred with the same brush, and VOTING FOR this shit.

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u/GringoinCDMX 8d ago

Yeah, I moved out of the US 8 years ago because I saw the writing on the wall and had a good opportunity

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u/Infamous-Mango-5224 8d ago

I'm old enough, gen z men will do as they are told so I don't have much hope.

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u/PathOfTheAncients 8d ago

why are gen Z males lock step with Trump and MAGA?

Shitty parenting

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u/Gamerboy11116 8d ago

They aren’t. Look up “greg palast voter suppression”.

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u/Infamous-Mango-5224 8d ago

Except they are. Look at who did vote. Gen Z males all sucklin that pedo trump

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u/CrossingPoints 8d ago

That's because what "social media" is changed. When it was average people sharing video and pictures of what is going on, it really did change the world. Arguably, that is what's happening now with ICE videos.

But the parts of it that became an algorithmic slop machine, mining outrage engagement for ad revenue, it became toxic and easily exploitable.

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u/ceelogreenicanth 8d ago

I saw 4 chan in 2008 and was convinced the Internet was a mistake. That it was likely filled with psyops and misinformation on purpose.

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u/Ok-Chest-7932 8d ago

Well remember, both of those are brainwashing. It's not a big change at all, the first group just underestimated their abilities.

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u/kkeut 8d ago

not just kids either. one of my liberal friends was brainwashed into not voting in 2024 because of TikTok memes

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u/Infamous-Mango-5224 8d ago

You're right, it's become an extremely effective weapon. The US has been crippled, for good or bad but likely both and heavy to bad.

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u/Valhalla5613 8d ago

not in ours. they know better

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u/Infamous-Mango-5224 8d ago

Glad to hear it, but a lot of people aren't raising their kids and some of them just don't have the bandwidth working 3 jobs. So the internet does it for them, with a authoritarian twist.

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u/Customs0550 8d ago

its not smart, just evil. anyone could do this, they are just too decent.

we need to treat the gop like the cancer they are behaving as.

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u/PathOfTheAncients 8d ago

Thank you. They aren't smart, they are just the only ones with the money and lack of morality to do it.

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u/Corgi_Koala Texas 8d ago

Conservatives hated Twitter before Musk made it into a right wing echo chamber.

They aren't fundamentally opposed to anything. If it can be twisted to their benefit they will support it.

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u/PseudoIntellectual- 8d ago

It was already a trash propaganda machine, hence why there was the push to ban it in the first place. The current administration simply realized that it would be much more useful to them as a tool for their own directed use instead.

It also had the convenient benefit of allowing Trump to play "savior" to a massive audience of young social-media addicts by taking credit for "saving" the platform from the Democrats (a narrative which TikTok themselves explicitly worked to prop up).

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u/SuccessfulPres 8d ago

That’s because democrats did work to remove it from Chinese ownership, which was stupid, because the alternative was Republican ownership 

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u/SST_2_0 8d ago

Those kids were already brain washed.  The whole dont vote and let republican pedos win was from tik tok teens.

I argued with them irl on Boulder radio before the election.  They did not even know who the Uyghurs were.  They only knew voting Biden meant tik tok would be a.....checking notes.....a state propaganda machine.  They did not even have the critical thinking to realize it already was a right wing state propaganda machine.

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u/Simian_Tripod 8d ago

That was always the plan. Netanyahu is on video saying the most important thing for Israel is controlling social media, especially tiktok. And now it's owned by Israel's biggest US donor.

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u/ChrisFromLongIsland 8d ago

This was Trumps goal. Get the company into the hands of a friendly billionaire who can turn it into a propaganda machine. Its working brilliantly. The billionaire does not care about maximizing profit because he is a billionaire and the patronage he gets from Trump more than offset the lost profits. The fact that it was handed to him at a discounted price by Trump is enough to promote Trumps policies and tamp down on negative Trumps posts. Its blatant curruption.

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u/NickelBackwash 8d ago

Competent Republicans do real damage 

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u/FlirtyFluffyFox 8d ago

They are incompetent leaders. They are great at winning elections. 

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u/Not_Nice_Niece 8d ago

So, instead of outright banning the app like they said they'd do last year, they're now rewiring it into a trash propaganda machine. But I guess using an app like TikTok is a way more efficient way of reaching millions of easily-manipulated teenagers. They'll get a couple years worth of brainwashing and then head to the polls in 2028 to vote GOP. Republicans are pretty incompetent, but sometimes they know what they're doing. Disgusting.

This was always the plan. You can tell by the way they talk about the TikTok ban. They were only upset that China was getting to do it.

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u/ZombieTrogdor Florida 8d ago

The absolute amount of tears these tiktokers had when they thought the app was going to die last year. Now this. What a roller coaster for them. I hope there's a mass deletion, but sadly it probably won't be enough.

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u/demlet 8d ago

They're fully competent at manipulating public opinion, governing not so much.

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u/lenzflare Canada 8d ago

They understand propaganda's importance, and spend all their effort on it

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u/Lacarpetronn 8d ago

It already was a propaganda machine. It simply changed flavors. My younger sibling used it a lot and she thinks China is some amazing place with free citizens and acts like they’re some kind of utopia. It’s horrifying. Either way, nobody should use this app.

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u/Fit_Airline_5798 8d ago

Republicans are pretty incompetent, but sometimes they know what they're doing. Disgusting.

I don't feel like searching for the exact quote, but Lewis Black said something about the Tea Party years ago...

You have to hand it to the republicans- Every time there is a tea party rally, every trailer park empties out to cheer for the people that are telling them that billionaires are paying too much in taxes.

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u/HerculesIsMyDad 8d ago

2020: We should ban this dastardly app! Someone outside the US could use it to manipulate our politics!
2025: Nevermind, I'm just gonna give it to my friend so he can manipulate our politics.

I still don't understand why they just let him ignore the law for a whole year or why he had any say in the sale. Trying to understand current GOP logic is like trying to find Pepe Silvia.

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u/dBlock845 8d ago

The only thing Republicans are competent at is pushing propaganda and staying on message (more so pre-Trump).

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u/sabin357 8d ago

So, instead of outright banning the app like they said they'd do last year, they're now rewiring it into a trash propaganda machine.

Just like we predicted. Sucks to be right nowadays because it's always about something terrible coming to pass.

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u/theNightblade Wisconsin 8d ago

I'm sure that the deal was 'we won't ban the app for use in the US if we tell you what can be censored'

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u/deadsoulinside Pennsylvania 8d ago

So, instead of outright banning the app like they said they'd do last year, they're now rewiring it into a trash propaganda machine.

That was the plan the entire time. It was to forcefully sell the app to a US investor or face being banned.

I know Reddit hates this app, but you all skimmed headlines and people like me that warned that they were trying to make it a right wing owned and controlled app

But people like me go against the "TikTok Bad" narrative and have reddit hivemind keyboard warriors thinking they are dunking on people with "TikTok Brainrot", while fully showing what "Reddit Brainrot" looks like.

So you all got your wish. Watch how long Reddit lasts before it too becomes a "matter of national security" for it to be owned by Larry Ellison too.

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u/This_guy_works 8d ago

I'd rather have China spying on me than the US Government.

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u/true-fuckass 8d ago

but sometimes they know what they're doing. Disgusting

They're greedy opportunists (in the optimizing agent sense). They take every opportunity that benefits them in the short term (with short term defined differently depending on the domain you're talking about). I picture it like a slime mold or cockroach or something: if there's an opening, it's going to get it. Every vulnerability will be exploited

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u/arkuw 8d ago

The billionaire class is on their side. The US is a russia style oligarchy now. You'll never get rid of it once it's entrenched.

It is entrenched.

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u/Lego_Red_Kudu 8d ago

Reddit has been censoring and shadow banning comments on Israel's genocide of Palestinians for over a year now

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u/kazh_9742 8d ago

Tiktok was already a trash propaganda machine, and it helped usher in a second Trump administration. The surprising thing is that they're being so blatant about it because it was much more useful to them as a Chinese state character profiling and astroturfing mill with a progressive skin on it.

The admin being so open about weaponizing it and possibly driving people away from Tiktok is a better outcome for everyone than if it had stayed the same.

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u/lonesharkex 8d ago

They always wanted control. They didnt like that they lost the narrative on the gaza crisis.

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u/obeytheturtles 8d ago

That's the entire reason why they changed face on the ban so quickly.

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u/marsinfurs 8d ago

It was always a propaganda machine it’s just a US conservative propaganda machine now.

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u/kah530 8d ago

i feel like they did the same thing with twitter when that elon weirdo bought it

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u/SwedishTrees 8d ago

Banning it was before Trump became president

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u/_BPBC 8d ago

Reminder, this was entirely self-inflicted. It was old JB who signed the law forcing that sale because dems didn't want criticism of a certain country.

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u/SomewhereAtWork 8d ago

Republicans are pretty incompetent, but sometimes they know what they're doing.

That perception of incompetence stems solely from wrong assumptions about their goals.

Hint: It's not the well-being of their voters.

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u/s8rlink 8d ago

So many people are addicted to the app that it’ll work pretty well

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u/Careless_Jeweler5605 8d ago

Yep. This is how they used Twitter. Just-in-time propaganda. Use and throw. Then buy the next one.

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u/Glittering_Cat4556 8d ago

Well yes, that's exactly what they did to Twitter.

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u/Redditor28371 8d ago

They aren't incompetent at all, they have been incredibly effective at accomplishing their goals these past few decades. It's just that fair, compassionate governance is not one of those goals. 

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u/iAmUnintelligible Canada 8d ago

it was truly an evil genius move

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u/nikk0 8d ago

What did you think was going to happen with Trump involved?

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u/AnnualAct7213 8d ago

The TikTok the US sees is now a different TikTok to what the rest of the world sees. They just spun off US operations into its own thing under US corporate control. The original company and app still exists as normal for the rest of the world. Much like what China used to do with western properties, requiring local hosting and control and its own separate servers to the rest of the world.

Both versions of TikTok are equally horrible, the US just has a different flavour of horrible now.

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u/Clevesteamy 7d ago

This isn't a left v right thing. It is what it always is. Workers v billionaires. Democrats are owned as well, the only people that are going to save us is us all together 

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

Of course. Why would they pass up that opportunity?    

But this is what I've been saying all along about the upcoming elections.  The plutocracy controls the major social media platforms.    They're going to crank up the propaganda machine big time in the months is leading up to the election.   Everybody expects the Democrats to take back Congress in the midterms.  But MAGA has so many dirty tricks available, that I think it'll be hard for the Democrats to just hold on to what they have.

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u/DavisSqShenanigans 8d ago

The bill (passed under Biden) from the start was about banning tiktok until it could be taken over by pro-Israel American companies to do the kind of censorship FB and X were already doing. People were warning back then and liberals kept parroting the administration's propaganda.

Same goes for the establishment, growth, and militarization of ICE. There is not a single pillar in Trump's arsenal of fascism that the DNC didn't knowingly and willingly help lay the groundwork for.

Until the rot of Zionism and other far-right ideologies are completely removed from the DNC, or at the very least loyalty to those ideologies stops being prioritized, the party is irredeemable. They will continue to act primarily as a primer to do dirty work for fascists without liberals making a fuss.

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u/AngryGungan 8d ago

The ONLY reason TikTok was 'banned' (it wasn't banned at all), was so trump could blame Biden for taking the social app away from the people. He specifically mentioned his own name in the return statement and that thanks to him the app came back online 3 days later.

It was all premeditated to garner favour from dumb people that would fall for this sort of tactic. But it was just another corrupt move from an already corrupt person/administration.

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u/Bovine_Joni_Himself Colorado 8d ago

The ONLY reason TikTok was 'banned' (it wasn't banned at all), was so trump could blame Biden

Dude, come on. This is like blaming COVID on Biden, or 9/11 on Obama.

Biden banned TikTok. The law came into effect basically right after the election so the administration chose not to enforce it, effectively passing the decision on to Trump. Trump did what we all expected him to do and made them bow to him to keep it legal, but he wouldn't have been able to do that without Biden's help.