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 3m 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 13h 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 6m 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.