Hiring a terrorist instructor as it’s hate speech manager will surely go well
TikTok appoints ex-IDF solider as its 'hate speech manager'
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
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Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
She is not a terrorist as national militaries do not commit acts of terrorism. National militaries commit war crimes thus she is a war criminal not a terrorist. Terrorists might have some degree of legitimacy behind their actions which war criminals do not have.
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
If “national militaries do not commit acts of terrorism” (source?), the IDF, by that definition, is not a national military. There is no definition of terrorism that excludes the IDF’s actions during the last 75 years
TheBat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hate speech manager
Manager to increase hate speech?
SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
To ensure the correct kind of hate speech is allowed.
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
brb gonna sign up on TikTok and do a “TikTok ban any%” speedrun by posting “free Palestine” and “Israel is committing genocide” vids
jawa21@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
This headline seems disingenuous in a way, since IDF service is mandatory. It could be any Israeli, with any set of beliefs. I haven't read enough about this person ro know what their stance on things actually is, but this really seems like a bad faith headline.
Soup@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Later in the article it says that Tiktok has complied with 94% of the Israeli government takedown requests and it’s also been blocking pro-Palestine content. So it’s not even a slight reach to assume that they’re gunna hire someone with similar views.
jawa21@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
This is very fair. I still think that the headline is predominantly click bait, though.
Jarix@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
She was an instructor, that fits beyond mandatory service
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
This is the natural progression.
They started hiring a bunch of natsec ghouls when Trump tried to ban them in 2020, and increased it under Biden when the dems jumped on the “tiktik is spying on you! Evil CCP is turning the youth into communists!” Bandwagon, and started algo boosting right-wing content under Trumo II.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
when the dems jumped on the “tiktik is spying on you! Evil CCP is turning the youth into communists!”
TikTok IS spying on you.
But it’s true that the evil CCP is no longer communist: just totalitarian crony capitalist.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
TikTok IS spying on you.
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No more so than any other social media app, and as someone who lived in America at the time, China having my data was far less threatening than America having my data.
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Tiktok duplicated their server infrastructure just for America so no American data would leave the country.
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They hired a bunch of natsec ghouls and boosted what they wanted boosted and censored what they told them to censor since 2020. Tiktok isn’t Chinese propaganda, it’s American propaganda.
But it’s true that the evil CCP is no longer communist: just totalitarian crony capitalist.
The CPC’s tendency to favor the working class over capital suggests otherwise; they’ve raised a billion people out of poverty, while India is a net exporter of food but still has children dying of hunger-related diseases. When a baby formula factory in China killed or sickened a dozen babies due to greed and gross negligence, they took the executives out back and shot them, and opened the market up to foreign imports. When the same thing happened in the US, nobody went to jail and the US didn’t even approve EU imports of formula because that would hurt the profits of the company that had just murdered literal babies.
I would never call China a utopia, but you have to actually understand a thing if you want to make meaningful criticisms of it.
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skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
JFC, it’s as though they were going out of their way to hire the most inappropriate person possible for the role.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Israel has mandatory service.
They could have just said “Israeli” but that wouldn’t get as many clicks.
Jarix@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
She was an instructor of the Armored Corps
Yes they have mandatory service, but she was a lot extra
Taalnazi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And?
She could always reject as a conscientious objector. Fuck genocide!
possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Any speech not in favor of Tik Tok will be considered anti-semitic. You’re either with the Tide pod challenge or you’re racist!
WaffleWarrior@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
OK this is kind of stupid. I am pretty sure all people in Israel are requires to serve in the Military for a couple years. Her real crime is simply being born Israeli. If that’s your problem…say that.
Damage@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
And they get to become instructors in such short time?
Taalnazi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not all are. If you are clergy, often Ultra-Orthodox, you get exempted.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The Nazis had a draft… With damn near 100% draft rate
Do you think that made it ok because under German law they had to?
Because during much of the war, if they objected they were just shot.
So surely, if jail is an excuse, your logic dictates that you also excuse every Nazi from what we did and you don’t judge any of them…
Unless there’s an inconsistency with your logic for some reason
Most people tho, think jail for a couple months is better than participating in a genocide. But everyone’s personal values are different.
unconsequential@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Well, that explains my ban
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
no longer will there be rampant, disorganized hate speech, instead there will be structured, well trained hate speech