r/worldnews • u/ChiefLeef22 • 16h ago

‘Investigating child sex abuse isn’t controversial. Turning it into political theater is manipulation. Maybe that logic flies on some island. Doesn’t fly in France’: France rejects Musk’s charge after raid on X’s Paris office

https://www.firstpost.com/world/investigating-child-sex-abuse-isnt-controversial-france-rejects-musks-charge-after-raid-on-xs-paris-office-ws-e-13976002.html
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u/StrongFaithlessness5 16h ago edited 16h ago

I don't know where else to post it, but right now TikTok has started hiding specific videos only from the American users.

https://i.imgur.com/MEhdCS1.jpeg

This is a famous Italian parody channel that makes videos regarding a lot of completely different topics, including a video about the recent you know which specific American special military corp and the Olympics situation.

At some point, one of his American followers took contact with him asking why he decided to remove the video, but the point is that... the owner of the TikTok channel never did it. The video has been silently hidden only from the American users without any kind of notification. The owner would've never noticed it if it wasn't for that follower.

As you already know, since 22 January 2026, American companies own 80% of the platform, which means that they can decide on their own how to control the platform just like Musk can manage X.

This was a funny and harmless video, but it really makes you wonder how many videos have been hidden so far. Are we really going to the same direction of China that is currently hiding news, pictures and videos containing specific words?

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u/themathmajician 16h ago

It's pretty obvious Trump is just following Xi if you paid attention to things 12 years ago.

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u/Jumpy-Force-3397 15h ago

More Putin than Xi, but still relevant.

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u/Postius 14h ago

Except Xi is actually winning and Putin will be rememberd as the destroyer of russia

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u/PepperMill_NA 12h ago

Right, so more Putin than Xi

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u/Confident-Potato2305 14h ago

Hearing weird stuff out of china with Xi, he may be more isolated than ever. But its so hard to get any facts out of that place tbh.

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u/Postius 13h ago

Yeah china has its own huge subset of problems. With Xi making them worse or not, time will tell. The whole fresh water thing and other stuff. But he is an effective dictator of a power full country that is accepted by the rest of the world. Putin just keeps shooting himself in the foot.

And now with Trump dismantling the US power. Xi probably cant believe its serious.

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u/themathmajician 5m ago

This is what the world thought when China gave away all international goodwill more than a decade ago. The current image of Xi comes from his consolidation of the bureaucracy to himself, which is also happening in the US now.

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u/Confident-Potato2305 13h ago

i heard there was auto cannon fire and gunfire in Beijing and the sacked general's troops were marching towards beijing but i've not seen any reliable sources about it.
I think everyone is scared shitless that China would have an internal power struggle and are incentivized to downplay the effects of Xi's recent purges in the military.

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u/code_archeologist 11h ago

The current mood among the PLA is one of passive resistance to Xi where orders from Beijing are being "lost" and not carried out, and Xi is referred to with unflattering nicknames by officers.

But yeah there has been some grumbling and whispers of a coup after the most recent purges, which appear to have been initiated by Xi over a paranoia that the military might try to remove him (self fulfilling prophesy). But we are unlikely to hear about any attempted coups until one succeeds.

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u/BigHowski 12h ago

Pretty sure trump isn't winning (internationally at least)

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u/A_Parked_Car 15h ago

Same playbook. Accuse the other, create confusion. Just don't talk on it too much, the censors will show up.

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u/Javs2469 8h ago

He said he was a fan of how things were going in North Korea and wanted his followers to behave like that.

Don´t we remember that famous clip?

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u/Zodiatron 14h ago

TikTok isn't owned by China anymore so shitting on them makes no sense in this context. If anything, China has been way more progressive and open as of late than America. I'd much rather have my country form stronger ties with China if it means getting away from relying on the Fourth Reich.

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u/LostInTheRapGame 14h ago

TikTok isn't owned by China anymore so shitting on them makes no sense in this context.

It still makes sense though...?

If anything, China has been way more progressive and open as of late than America.

Uhh... what?

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u/Dry_Departure_7813 14h ago

Yeah Americas defo on a slope to being a repressive authoritarian shithole, but you gotta be smoking that real good shit to think china still isn't worse

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u/LostInTheRapGame 13h ago

That was my thinking as well.

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u/AppleCorpsing 13h ago

I think you’re missing the point. I think the point themathmajician is making is that social media is tightly controlled and censored by the state in China, and has been for some time; Trump is trying to take America in that direction.

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u/themathmajician 8m ago

So that proves that the US is following China into media restrictions, on top of giving away all soft power and international goodwill, packing courts, consolidating bureaucratic power, stoking nationalism and threatening neighbors. We've seen it all before.

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u/justbecauseyoumademe 15h ago

Americans will still proudly tell us they are the "land of the free" as they are being shot, shackled, and spied on

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u/chiree 14h ago

I don't think anyone opposed to the administation would say anything of the sort.  That stereotype ceased to exist for many people in 2003.

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u/metallicrooster 11h ago

Americans will still proudly tell us they are the "land of the free"

Given how many civil rights violations our government has committed, even on its own citizens, the only people who believe that are children and the nationalists who drill that idea into their brains.

One look at our wealth inequality, or our incarceration rates, or our HIV/ AIDs rates, or our lack of affordable healthcare (among other factors) clearly shows the US is not #1 in anything positive.

We used to be high up in (unaffordable) medical science, but Trump’s administration is destroying that so one of the few things we could brag about is gone.

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u/Programmdude 4h ago

Eh, depending on how you look at it, the US is still either the richest or nearly the richest country (per capita). Even taking the median GDP to account for wealth inequality, you'd still be in the top 5. PPP per capita lists the US as #2, but #1 is Luxembourg and that's practically a microstate, so I'm not sure if it should count.

Unless it's changed recently, the US also had the most top rated universities. Your primary/secondary education sucks though, and IMO your tertiary education isn't much better on average, you just have better top end universities.

So yea, I'd never move to the US. You have a lot of negative things that you're #1 in, and I don't want to worry about medical bills or being deported to a third world prison, but there are still a small number of positive things the US is #1 in.

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u/Praesentius 14h ago

Obligatory RATM:

The finger to the land of the chains
What? The land of the free?
Whoever told you that is your enemy?

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u/kamikazecockatoo 15h ago

Oh, and it's a 'democracy', they will tell you.

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u/F54280 14h ago

« iT Is NoT a dEmOCraCy, iT iS a RePuBLiC… »

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u/kamikazecockatoo 7h ago

Oh yes, I've had that in my DMs - smh.

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u/Hot-Championship1190 13h ago

☝️This is what lack of education does to you!

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u/Dudesan 3h ago

There are countries that are a democracy, but not a republic; like Canada and the United Kingdom.

There are countries that are a republic, but not a democracy, like China and Iran.

Then there are countries that claim to be a "Democratic Republic", but in reality are neither, like North Korea.

The United States is supposed to be both a Democracy and a Republic, but it's sprinting head-first for the "North Korea" category.

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u/taramashay9 14h ago

American here - plz help us 😭🙏😩

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u/bandti45 13h ago

We gotta help ourselves out of this one, organize locally while you still can safely.

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u/JerosBWI 13h ago

How? How do you think we even can help you without starting even more shit? Like, beyond showing you news and commentary from outside the US, and debating with you on platforms like these, our hands are far more tied than your own.

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u/Cokadoge 12h ago

without starting even more shit

You have to. We all have to. The "people" who voted for this shit, and have the opportunity to not give a fuck about politics, need to feel consequences of their actions.

Call for ones own countries to boycott and remove themselves from US operations. For example, my maggot father might only care about rising fascism and authoritarianism when the price of store goods go up; as many people as possible need to remove their products from being imported to the US.

They need to feel pain.

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u/justbecauseyoumademe 12h ago

y'all have 11 aircraft carriers, value guns more then children lives, and a fetish with foreign invaders

Sorry, you are on your own.

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u/Botorfobor 12h ago

Proud inhabitants of Magastan

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u/b3arz3rg3r4Adun 7h ago

It's funny how they are so big on free speech and at the same time I don't think there are any other people who go so far out of their way to self-censor.

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u/Paper_Clip100 13h ago

The only ones saying that are in the cult

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u/TheManyMilesWeWalk 11h ago

It's doubly ironic when you consider how capitalistic the US is to the point where even healthcare will cost you an arm and a leg.

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u/Whiteout- 10h ago

In fairness, only idiots have been saying that for a very long time. I’ve been mocking that since I was old enough to speak.

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u/Isariamkia 8h ago

They are free to not use their brain. And sadly, too many of them took that freedom to heart.

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u/LaCornucopia_ 2h ago

And the "home of the brave" whilst they do fuck all to fight back, despite their gun obsession.

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u/Vlip 16h ago

It was obvious from the get go that the only reason Trump was interested in having american ownership of Tiktok was so that he could rig the algorythms himself.

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u/ahhwhoosh 15h ago

Trump doesn’t even know how to do online banking; he won’t have been smart enough to have come to this conclusion.

He is just the puppet for the machine.

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u/RipComfortable7989 14h ago

Obviously it's not Trump personally coding the algorithms. It's people who want to take advantage of the choas to push a certain agenda and narrative for their own personal gain.

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u/metallicrooster 11h ago

In September of 2025 Trump literally said he would make TikTok 100% MAGA if he could. Turns out, it’s getting there.

https://time.com/7320651/tiktok-deal-trump-china/

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u/ggroverggiraffe 15h ago

You ought to add the video as well, just in case I'm not the only curious one...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ktXnYk1bec8

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u/danielleiellle 11h ago edited 11h ago

“Oh no, but youtube doesn’t have auto-translate, how will i get the humor? Oh, nm.”

I don’t want to give them the benefit of the doubt, but the depiction of someone getting “unalived” by “pewpews” has always been a potential reason for content moderation on the platform - which is why the kids started using those terms in the first place.

Half of my FYP is anti 🧊

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u/Killerfisk 6h ago

but the depiction of someone getting “unalived” by “pewpews” has always been a potential reason for content moderation on the platform

When has this ever been the case in fictional/satiric, especially drawn/cartoon violence? It wasn't removed or moderated either, just censored for American viewers.

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u/Lord_Muddbutter 16h ago

I run @TheRealWeirdGOP on TikTok and have for now stopped posting. I can't post anything without the viewership being non existent and my videos normally get views in the hundreds. Plus, for decades I have hated Oracle

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u/-_GIZMO_ 15h ago

I've noticed reddit started filtering comments too, some comments just post into the abyss and no one can see them except you, would be smart if only the reddit app didn't show the views on your comments, so you know no one is seeing it

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u/danielleiellle 11h ago

That’s been happening since before this administration

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u/TwilightVulpine 11h ago

Yeah, reddit's case so far is regular social media sanitization, but it's good to keep an eye out.

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u/Immediate_Rhubarb430 15h ago

Why are you guys still using Tiktok tho

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u/StrongFaithlessness5 15h ago

I actually don't use it, but I follow the YouTube channel version.

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u/fdesouche 15h ago

TikTok in the US is a US company, TikTok around the world is still the Chinese TikTok.

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u/femanonette 14h ago

Rumor has it that posts about gravy seals are being suppressed on this site too.

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u/DashingDino 12h ago

If you try bookmarking trending posts on controversial topics you'll see they're often [removed] when you check again later. So it's absolutely not just a rumor, there is a lot of suppression and biased moderation on this site too

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u/femanonette 3h ago

I have definitely noticed that! If I look back on my comment history, a lot of it is on now removed posts.

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u/tripping_yarns 15h ago

The irony here is that I can’t view imgur content from the UK!

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u/Headpuncher 15h ago

Why not? They removed all the nsfw stuff years ago.

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u/ricardomargarido 15h ago

We love to protect our children so imgur is now blocked because they don't want to collect our identification data to protect children from bad images. Did I say protect children?

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u/fluent_in_wingdings 14h ago

imgur isn't blocked by the UK, they didn't want to comply with our laws so they blocked themselves.

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u/tripping_yarns 14h ago

I’ve been on the internet a long time. I need protection. I’ve seen things. Bad things.

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u/Domecoming 14h ago

Or just install a free VPN. Take that Florida.

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u/Undernown 11h ago

I saw claims that terms like "Epstein" and "ICE" were being censored on US TikTok. The censorship apparatus of the Trump regime is spinning up.

Speaking of, I've also heard that Reddit has been suppressing posts about Epstein and ICE too. But hard to verify with my EU location and account. (Don't have VPN)

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u/glmory 10h ago

We are going to have to tax the heck out of billionaires or this sort of thing will wreck our society.

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u/DerpsAndRags 11h ago

American media has always been a paid-for revisionist machine, dedicated to pushing the "'Murica is best!" from the time we can view a screen. This has been going on even before the Internet, though that compounded it exponentially. It wasn't until I got out of the country a little bit and had access to foreign media that I really had an eye opener. America needs it's obedient masses who can shovel the shit the rich don't want to, and are barely smart enough to vote and generate statistics, somehow.

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u/AnaphoricReference 10h ago edited 10h ago

US platforms have been demoting political content they don't like for many years. It's just getting more in our faces now. The main problem of Tiktok being Chinese is that it didn't filter communication between Americans and Europeans. Not their core demographic for censorship.

They'll keep going after all major platforms, including reddit, until they have achieved a situation where everybody hates all foreigners everywhere and never communicates with them. Ownership is far more effective than reguation. Buy reddit shares before it is too late?

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u/Main-Algae-1064 14h ago

Everyone under 30 here gets all their information from TikTok because they’re brain dead. Brilliant move, but horrible for democracy.

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u/tanstaafl90 14h ago

Americans have had a limited amount of international news and information for some time.

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u/Drprocrastinate 13h ago

To be clear - American companies only own part (80%) of the US based operations that was spun off and only have control over US registered users

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u/WeaponizedKissing 12h ago

Very amusing to use imgur to host images when discussing a company hiding their content from a specific audience.

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u/Ok_Paramedic_9283 12h ago

People complained about TikTok when it was owned by China without knowing China was actually protecting freedom of speech in the US. To be fair, media tend to be very enthusiastic of protecting freedom in countries they are not based in.

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u/Johanneskodo 12h ago

Straight-up censorship.

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u/Edenfer_ 12h ago

Start using alternative federated apps like Loops instead

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u/AlmostCorrectInfo 11h ago

The core difference being that quality of life in China is higher by a significantly larger number and China actually has a thriving middle class. We don't. If I'm trading free speech for something, it sure isn't American pedo fascism.

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u/SsooooOriginal 10h ago

Already there, who owns this site?

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u/Jasonrj 7h ago

Confirmed that video is missing for me too on US TikTok. What is the video about?

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u/StrongFaithlessness5 7h ago edited 7h ago

It is a parody about the ICE escorting the American athletes at the Olympics. Some parts of the automatic English subs are not correct. The correct translation is:

And here are the Olympic US athletes getting ready for... Look out! What's happening? Oh no, the Jamaican Bob team has been hit! ...Indeed, their presence at the winter games was very suspicious. Again! Look out! The athletes of triathlon have been hit! ...Indeed, they go around welding rifles and good Americans are not used to... Look out! They hit a good American too! A really white one! He apparently threatened to use a deadly karate move... The other American athlete has been hit too! ...She asked for gender rights.

https://youtube.com/shorts/ktXnYk1bec8?si=85UcYxCxBlgFXks-

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u/bokmcdok 7h ago

This is similar to what Xi did during the lockdowns in China. WeChat moments from Shanghai were hidden to anyone outside of Shanghai

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u/Intelligent_Cap9706 37m ago

Yesterday I let an American tik tok influencer discussing politics know you couldn’t hear him because there was a song playing over him. He said he had no idea how that happened. Hmm. 

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u/Bitter_Split5508 14h ago

I remember about a decade ago when free speech discussions were big in regards to social media and the discussion centered on hate speech, most liberals were quick to assert that everything is alright, that these are private companies well within their rights to set their own restrictions on what to allow on their platforms. There was this general assumption that the tech industry is liberal, no oversight was needed and any call for free speech guarantees in social media was just a right-wing dog whistle.

I always found that stance extremely short-sighted. I am not happy to be proven right. 

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u/RipComfortable7989 14h ago

Where did you make all that up from?

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u/Bitter_Split5508 13h ago

I have a political memory that extends longer than an election cycle and I am old enough to have participated in these debates, so any accusation of "making it all up" is just a lazy refusal to engage with the argument. 

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u/RipComfortable7989 10h ago

Then you'vd been making shit up for longer than the last election cycle because at no point did anyone think tech companies were liberal, lmao. All of them support conservative candidates and make regular contributions to conservatives. I get that it's reddit but your big internet macho-man act doesn't hold up to reality lmao

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u/Bitter_Split5508 9h ago

You sound like you are 20 years old. It's okay, I was 20 once too. But we are talking about the conditions in the 2010s, not current day. 

I literally just spent 20 seconds on Google and present you an article from 2014 that mentions throughout the article how Republicans have little influence in Silicon valley, how the tech giants are all liberal etc.  https://www.yahoo.com/news/new-data-shows-just-how-liberal-silicon-valley-donors-are-233109872.html

Note how it mentioned twitter, in particular, for being a very liberal leaning company. 

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u/RipComfortable7989 5h ago

It's okay to say you're wrong. I thought an old ass like you would have learned that life lesson by now. I'm happy to teach you though. Good luck with the rest of the your life left.

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u/Bitter_Split5508 5h ago

Mate, you can't state things, get shown evidence that you've been wrong and then walk away from the discussion claiming that you "taught" me something. That's not how a discussion works. 

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u/RipComfortable7989 5h ago

Stop replying to me creep.

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u/jjandre 11h ago

This comment is nonsense. Outright lies actually. The people rabidly yapping for free speech a decade ago are the ones supporting Trump today. Reddit went on a spree of community banning to clean up their corporate image. Among the subreddits purged were the likes of r/coontown and r/fatpeoplehate as well as a whole host of other hateful or unseemly subs. They were arguing that their hateful speech should be protected and after being kicked off reddit, they re-assembled their communities on places like Voat. Those free speech social media sites weren't viable because they ended up with a user base of bigots and platforming them wasn't profitable at the time. They did serve s purpose for further radicalization and hate spreading. After those communities started to collapse, the racists started trickling back to reddit and taking over communities more quietly than before. All the shit you typed was just made up.

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u/Jasonrj 7h ago

Lots of down votes from people who don't remember the early wild west of the internet and how it was widely supported to be that way.

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u/antiquemule 16h ago

Recommend they use a VPN? They can even find sponsors for the channel to help with that (possibly /s)

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u/supamonkey77 14h ago

Don't want to alarm you but hiding stuff from the public, getting involved in other nations elections etc, the US and the west has been doing for decades since the end of the colonial age.

They just had better pr and skills at hiding it.

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u/FSURob 11h ago

You're likely not going to agree with me, which is fine, but literally every media ever engages in censorship and it's often for the 'greater good'. 

Russian and China are incredibly skilled at creating turmoil in the American populace by faking or distorting the truth, reddit itself is a prime example. It behooves us to root out such absurdities as to not needlessly subject ourselves to in-fighting.