Comment on "It's Silencing" - Albania Shuts Down TikTok.

• huppakee@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I don’t think you understand the quote you use. What is in the article and in your quote of the article is thataccording to the opposition (and others) the current government is banning TikTok to silence critics and manipulate the upcoming elections.

  Then you mention how TikTok is being used to manipulatie elections … on a global scale. I don’t disagree with what you’re saying, but in this case the banning of a social media platform is similar to how governments suppress newspapers and tv-channels because they are a threat to the ruling party.

  This is not about foreign agents influencing elections, this is about a local power suppressing their people.

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I understand that their motivation is to suppress opposition. What im saying is that banning tiktok wont have that effect, but the opposite. Im saying the opposition will actually benefit from moving to a different, more neutral platform in response to this ban.

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