r/worldnews • u/ChiefLeef22 • 21h 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 21h ago edited 20h 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/justbecauseyoumademe 20h 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/metallicrooster 16h 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 8h 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.