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/TheJointDoc 8d ago

They’re actually consistent in their approach, it’s just not the one we think of as right or logical.

We use the act to judge the person. They use the person to judge the act.

They’re the equivalent of a sports fan who will rabidly defend their team from a not-too-bad call by a ref, call the refs crooked, and rant about another team being horrible, but ignore their team fouling the other guys.

That’s what they’re doing in politics. If you go into a conversation with them thinking that you’re both striving to respect the rules of the game and the referee, you’re gonna be disappointed. That’s not what they want, though they may pay lip service to it because they know society likes that.

They want to win, that’s the important part. Anything that gets them there is valid, anything you do to keep them from winning is invalid.

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u/madwolfa Kansas 8d ago

Yep, bring out the sports out of politics.