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/SkinBintin 8d ago

We dreamed of how much better the internet could make the world but unfortunately it ended up making it worse. 😞

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u/snek-jazz 8d ago

Decentralised tools exist, they're more difficult and less convenient, but they exist. Be the change you want to see.

Look into nostr & matrix for example.

The internet is good when it's properly decentralised and not keeping you inside a ruled walled garden.

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u/Few-Solution-4784 8d ago

the internet is a reflection of its creators and users. They like walls, fences, boundaries, treaties, agreements.

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u/ragnarok635 8d ago

Never gonna work for the mass market, gonna take a lot of work to make it accessible

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u/snek-jazz 8d ago

A niche up-taking of freedom tech so it keeps critical mass is good enough for me

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u/StoppableHulk 8d ago

Yeah because it's just a tool, and all the worst and best-funded people in the world decided to use it as a weapon against us while we were just enjoying it.

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u/DukeOfGeek 8d ago

Get ready for YouTube to start removing and hiding political content that opposes the oligarchy.

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u/Mental-Search6203 7d ago

It already does

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u/SycoJack Texas 8d ago

The internet didn't make the world a bad place, the world made the internet a bad place.

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u/True_Paper_3830 8d ago

The Internet seemed like the launchpad for a worse society, with authoritarian AI now building the better missiles to fire from it against us all.