I thought the nazi propaganda on the internet was annoying 20 years ago when I occasionally bumped into it. Now I’ll have to carefully curate the internet to not have to hear it constantly. Jfc.
TikTok may become more right-wing as China signals approval for US sale
Submitted 3 weeks ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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lectricleopard@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
pdxfed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Have you tried accommodation, no consequences and tolerance? Works every time toward fascists.
lectricleopard@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve personally got a lot on my plate. In trying to survive. There was a time I was more active, but its a young man’s/woman’s game.
HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
Might? It was pretty clear that the goal of buying it was to turn it in a rightwing propaganda machine
dhhyfddehhfyy4673@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
And the catalyst was clearly the nonstop exposure of Israel slaughtering innocents.
architect@thelemmy.club 1 week ago
We’d be here regardless.
suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They explicitly said that the goal of buying it was to turn it into a rightwing propaganda machine
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
its not a tiktok sale and i dont understand why media keeps repeating this. they’re licensing the algorithm to a new spun off us company silo’ed from the rest of the world.
also tiktok has been garbage slop forever anyway.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And CCP Military based in Beijing will still be maintaining it, they’re only moving it to a Cloud Server.
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think you just like saying the word ccp based military because nothing in your comment is correct. It is already hosted on Oracle cloud.
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Glad I deleted Tik Tok and all it’s bullshit
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Glad I never had tiktok and all it’s bullshit.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
its either thirst traps, or desperate people trying to get clout.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
This was the plan all along. It became enormously influential, so Trump is forcing China to sell it to MAGA and become ANOTHER mouthpiece for the Conservative Propaganda Machine. They did it to Twitter, they did it to Reddit, and now they’re going to do it to TikTok.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
i peaked over r/space, and there were people complaining about reddit deleting comments, and promoting right wing content, i was thinking your not helping by still using the platform. they were aslo discussing moving to reddit, but they claim lemmy isnt good enough for one reason or another.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I like Lemmy, I certain only am freer to speak my mind, although the mods can get pretty weird here, too. Mods are mods, whaddayagonnado?
I miss the multiple massive forums devoted to hobbies and interests. I love guitars and animals, and Lemmy doesn’t do either one very well, or any other lifestyle forums, for that matter.
I can scratch my political itch, but not much more.
keyzerSuze@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
what happened to reddit - who bought it ?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
After the Inauguration, Musk visited Spez on February, and they permabanned thousands, perhaps millions of their most active users. I had a 12 year account, nearly a million Karma, and I was permabanned for repeating an opinion that I had posted numerous times without a word from any mod. Trump gets inaugurated, and suddenly it’s enough to get me permabanned.
And there were lots of others. The purge gutted Reddit, and left it filled with nothing but bots and trolls.
egerlach@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
If China is okay with the sale that means it’s not good for the US. Danger, Will Robinson, danger!
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Because the Mainlander government see it as a useful tool for which to make the US collapse.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
its useful propaganda tool for gen-z users
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I mean it already is the biggest superspreader of far right content in Europe and I would assume in the US as well. But please don‘t come with anecdotes about your TikTok experience because it‘s the most personalized content platform so it‘s irrelevant what your feed looks like right now. I‘m saying this because often times at least one TikTok user will rush in to defend the platform with their personal experience whenever this is brought up.
bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The political part of my feed is pretty much hard left wing - but when I open the comments the top responders are the most right wing PoS’s I’ve ever seen. Which is so stupid because they’ll have max 200 thumbs up while a rational left wing respons will ratio them out of the water
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
thats astroturfing, the troll farms have thousands of bots that can do that at once.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
the thing is the gop could not control the messaging of tiktok, since it was owned by the CCP, so it was producing content against right wingers, they cant have that.
Grimy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s used to divide but I think it leans the opposite way in north America. The GOP wouldn’t have such a hate boner for it if it was pushing the same bullshit they are.
Hard to remember but I think a lot of pro Palestinian vids were on tiktok while the other social media sites were suppressing it when it all started. I only heard of this, I don’t have an account.
It’s leaning in Europe is well known though.
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They are not becoming more right-wing, they are becoming more pro-Israel.Even Netanyahu said that they are buying TikTok to brainwash the youth with Israeli propaganda.
atmorous@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Soooo any open source tiktok alternatives anyone can recommend?
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
electric_nan@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
“May”??
fort_burp@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Wait is the US more right-wing than China? Isn’t China supposed to be an authoritarian hell hole committing genocide and the USA a bastion of freedom, merely helping with a genocide?
Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No, it is always a competition on who can be worse.
fort_burp@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Yea, capitalism tends to do that :/
lemmeLurk@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Right wing and authoritarian are two different scales. China for sure is môre authoritarian (so far), but overall the us probably has always been more right than China.
sommerset@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
I don’t care about tiktok. Just don’t use ut
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah but if you live in a democracy those people with their rotten brains will have as much decision power as you do. 😔
captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 3 weeks ago
If the US becomes a democracy again, we might really have to worry about that! /s
BigTrout75@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s great for controlling the minds if millions.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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It was always Right Wing, it was controlled by CCP Military.
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It’s still controlled by the CCP Military, they’re just migrating to a cloud server that Beijing still has full access to.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 weeks ago
You think the Chinese Communist Party are right wing? Did I get that right?
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Right Wing means Conservative, and the chinese dictatorship is extremely conservative.
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SouthFresh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“The calls are coming from inside the house!”
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
they are hoping to capture the gen-z crowd into leaning right wing before they jump ship to another platform.
heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
One more platform goes to shit
Zealousideal_Fox_900@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Brother the only fucking content on that app was stupid people fighting over rights to own trends and people giving fuel to the “LGB without the T” clowns. Just a fucking shitshow of an app. I saw an 11 year old child trying to get a girlfriend on there too.
jali67@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Nah there was and is a lot of good and unique content on there. Of course, the orange cancer and his right wing billionaires taint it.
ohlaph@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The optimism of using the word might is doing some heavy lifting here.
keyzerSuze@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
May => will become more right wing. whats the alternative
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 weeks ago
Aka less obnoxiously left-wing.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
it’s almost like every person in tech is clairvoyant…
FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
May? Trump said he’s giving his son the CEO job.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
and adding 150million into his bank account/investment portfolio.