Occupy Wall Street and Opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) genuinely scared the shit out of them.
I had so much hope for the Internet at that time. But since then it’s turned to horseshit.
Comment on TikTok faces calls for ban amid claims of anti-Israel ‘indoctrination’
echo64@lemmy.world 8 months ago- it’s not owned and controlled by Americans. This makes American billionaires unhappy, and the liked of Zuckerberg would be very happy for the removal of comepetiton.
- America has a sinophobia problem, I know a lot of Americans here don’t see it, and get mad if you bring it up, but from the outside looking in, it’s very obvious.
- Policy makers in America seem scared of young people being politically motivated, and a lot of that is happening via tiktok. It stopped the red wave, it’s now impacting democratic polling, they’re losing control.
Wanderer@lemm.ee 8 months ago
FunkPhenomenon@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
that 2nd point… I think it really depends on where you live in America. the west coast states are heavily asian influenced - Chinese expats or people of Chinese descent are a significant population percentage.
echo64@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And thr sinophobia is sadly just as strong there, maybe worse. Stop Asian hate is a campaign for a reason.
FunkPhenomenon@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
eh… its mostly african americans vs asians in my neck of the woods.
echo64@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This has big “oh no no, there’s no racism in my community, I would know” vibes.
ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee 8 months ago
These points are all absolutely correct, and generally follow a trend of protectionism sweeping across the globe, but there’s also a genuine concern about how Tiktok shapes public POV based on CCP decisions(for example, suppressing content about the excessive Covid lockdown, the Uyghur and Tibetan genocide, and suppression of Hui Muslims, Hong Kong and other minorities in China).
assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And now it will only be US state department approved propaganda from now on. Losing TikTok isn’t going to be a win I think many people think it will be. It could be, but the policies that will enable it are made with bad intentions in mind so it won’t be.
Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 8 months ago
That content doesn’t seem suppressed, I’ve seen most of those things on TikTok. Some people were actively trying to see if that was true, and while it’s hard to know if it’s being penalised by the algorithm or not, it seemed fine.
If anything I report stuff all the time and it’s just like Facebook and other social media, the reports basically go to
/dev/null. Like, legitimate banworthy content like Elon Musk crypto scams and porn, both examples of things to report when you go to the reporting page.