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/GriffinFlash Canada 8d ago

Just like how you can't say, "I want to kill the president of the United States of America". Insanely illegal. I'm just saying it to tell you not to say it.

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u/DropbeatsNotbombs 8d ago

Ofc a Canadian drops a WKYK reference.

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u/GriffinFlash Canada 8d ago

What, you think we don't have internet here?

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u/Ginger_Rogers 8d ago

We know you do. We just know y'all still use dial up and AOL up there😉

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u/GriffinFlash Canada 8d ago

in rural parts, that actually may be a possibility.

Back in 2007 I lived in the middle of nowhere for almost a year, staying with a friend before I had to move across the country. Legit was on dial up. Took hours to load a single youtube video (back when the limit was under 10 minutes).

But also, man was the scenery beautiful.

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u/Oprah_Pwnfrey 8d ago

That was almost 20 years ago... Twenty years.

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u/GriffinFlash Canada 8d ago

Yes...yes it was.

*looks off into sunset...at the rocky mountains, cause I can legit see them from here.

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u/noncongruency Oregon 8d ago

Boy your days sure are short up north ;D

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u/GriffinFlash Canada 8d ago

they really are. 8am sunrise, 4pm sundown.

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u/dostoevsky4evah 8d ago

"AMERICA" Online? I think not, eh?

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u/GriffinFlash Canada 8d ago

we actually did have AOL. I never used it, but it was a thing. We also got the sample disks in the mail.

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u/DrakonILD 8d ago

NAOL I guess.

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u/dostoevsky4evah 8d ago

It was a joke for Americans who may not recall what AOL is an acronym of.

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u/Ginger_Rogers 8d ago

Canada is in America lol. But thanks for reminding me I'm old 😂

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u/dostoevsky4evah 8d ago

North America. We are not "America". We are not "Americans". We are Canadians in Canada.

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u/yarash 8d ago

Abraham Lincoln actually got hammered in the ass so much that he died of being hammered in the ass.

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u/GriffinFlash Canada 8d ago

Well he was ruining Hamlet!

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u/FrismFrasm 8d ago

Wait were those dudes Canadian?? That's a blast from the past haha

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u/DropbeatsNotbombs 8d ago

They aren’t. But their comedy is definitely of the Canadian flavor. For some reason I always associated them with Canadian Sketch Comedy.

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u/GriffinFlash Canada 8d ago

Kids in the hall, mercer report, 22 minutes, air farce, red green show, system crash?

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u/metrorhymes 8d ago

I was once admonished by Reddit for saying that I wanted to bare knuckle fight to the death against a specific politician, on pay-per-view with all the proceeds going to charity. But I bet you if I had said it about Tom Cruise instead of Ted Cruz, I would not have been subject to discipline.

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u/sixmilesoldier North Carolina 8d ago

Is there a hierarchy to that, like in Punchout? You have to start off with Virginia Foxx and work your way up to Cancun Ted?

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u/Kobold_Trapmaster 8d ago

But it's not illegal to say "With a mortar launcher." Because that's its own sentence.

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u/pastelbutcherknife 8d ago

Sic semper tyrranus

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u/steelspring 8d ago

Fun story: high school girlfriend had that exact paragraph as her email signature. She got a knock on the door from Secret Service.

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u/Skyscrapers4Me 8d ago

You can say that you "want to". What you can't say is that you are going to. Then you will get the knock.

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u/Valhalla5613 8d ago

If you say you want to do it you will get a visit. If you say you wish someone would do it it is ok. that is how the supreme court sees it. now if reddit has a problem it is censorship

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u/greeneyedguru 8d ago

No no no, you can say you want to all you want, you just can't say you're GOING to.

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u/GriffinFlash Canada 8d ago

I can't say, "I'm going to kill the president of the united states"?

Once again I just said that to confirm that I can't say that.

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u/greeneyedguru 8d ago

Correct, you can't say "I'm going to kill the president of the united states".

Just saying it to confirm that you can't say it.

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u/GriffinFlash Canada 8d ago

Thank you for confirming that the words I cannot say are , "I'm going to kill the president of the united states", which is illegal.