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

devfuuu@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  i’d be more worried about the citizen journalism exposing much of what is happening on the ground that governments don’t want you to see (aka gaza, for example)

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  • Bohurt@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’d be more worried if there wasn’t any other platforms where media can be posted to broader audience

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  • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There is no shortage of platforms that allow for that. Lemmy, reddit, blue sky, etc. it is not hard to adapt

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    • Ashiette@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yet TikTok is where the people are. Lemmy is Mostly empty :)

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      • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        People will move around. There’ll always be a replacement

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  • joel_feila@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    yeah but for every bad things social media uncovers we have a longer list of bad things it causes. It helps uncover gaza but look at the lists of ethnic cleansing and genocides facebook helped.

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• Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Influencers make money from the platform and in most peoples’ capitalism-riddled brain, “the government is ripping up your paycheck” is more alarming than “the government is silencing its people”.

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