I’ve seen plenty of tweets reporting that even remotely using the word Epstein is enough for you flagged.
California governor Gavin Newsom accuses TikTok of suppressing content critical of the current US president Donald Trump
Submitted 2 weeks ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
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tonytins@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
That must be a real headache for anyone who knows someone with the last name Epstein, even before you get to people who have that name themselves.
RustyShackleford@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
tonytins@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
It’s royally stupid.
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s the name of a huge consulting firm that my company works with. I’ve been hearing it for years. It’s weird every time.
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Apple forced an update on iphones that auto-updated TikTok, which now has mandatory reporting of your geolocation (including SIM card and GPS info). This geolocation sharing can’t be turned off in Settings like all other apps. It is greyed out for TikTok.
You think this is all coincidental?
FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
No way, for real?
Have a link for that? That is crazy if true.
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
www.wired.com/story/tiktok-new-privacy-policy/
piunikaweb.com/…/tiktok-privacy-policy-update-jan…
tomsguide.com/…/is-tiktok-u-s-broken-or-working-a…
Side note: tomsguide is now horrifically hard to read.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How the fuck is that even legal to force opt in on location.
Google has gotten in a lot of shit for not properly letting people control that before and delete histories.
Zorque@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Legal” is now (more) dependant on political loyalty than it is actual jurisprudence.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
fReE sPeEcH dOeSnT aPpLy tO CoMpAnIeS
reddig33@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Apple”
“Forced”No, TikTok pushed out an update and you had auto updates turned on.
Go to Settings > Apps > App Store to turn this setting off.
More info here: support.apple.com/en-us/102629
There’s probably something similar on Android devices as well.
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This wasn’t on my phone. I don’t have TikTok installed on either my personal or work cell phone. It was on my wife’s phone, which always has auto-updates turned off. She hates updates and never lets them happen. She woke up one morning and TikTok was updated with no way to turn that off. Two of her friends also complained that their apps auto-updated overnight.
skaffi@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
On the one hand, I am anything but surprised by such a development. But at the same time, this also sounds like typical disinformation.
Is there someone in the US with an iPhone, who’s willing to verify? Or, with a Android phone, who’s willing to test if a similar thing is the case on that platform, too?
Novis@lemdro.id 2 weeks ago
This guy is absolutely a grifter and playing both sides so he ends up with “the winning team”, don’t fucking trust his ass.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Speaking as a Californian I assure you none of us here believe a fucking thing that guy says he is a total douche nozzle.
boaratio@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I hate to admit the following, but I used to listen to the Adam Carrola podcast, and he interviewed Gavin Newsom back when he was lieutenant governor. He was a completely spineless douche, and listed Californians biggest problem as being access to banking accounts. I’m glad he’s trolling Trump, but this guy isn’t the answer. He had a huge party at French Laundry during the COVID lock down. He’s a dick.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Gavin Newsom was enthusiastically in favor of forcing the sale of TikTok to US-aligned billionaires under Joe Biden.
Wonder what changed.
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 2 weeks ago
There’s definitely some “our team, their team” going on, but this isn’t really the same thing.
“Following TikTok’s sale to a Trump-aligned business group, our office has received reports, and independently confirmed instances, of suppressed content critical of President Trump”
This is not a criticism of the sale itself, but of reported censorship after the sale. Make no mistake, Newsom is still on the side of the billionaires. He just wants the billionaires to return to their progressive facade.
Kissaki@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure under Biden, it was a matter of Chinese control outside of US government control, not bringing it under US billionaires specifically. Now it’s a political instrument of corruption and control, which is something different.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
it was a matter of Chinese control outside of US government control
TikTok was controlled by a private company based out of Singapore, with investments from a host of international funds including both the US and China.
The “China is controlling our internet” narrative was always bullshit fear-mongering, fully disjoined from the actual business structure. What TikTok enjoyed that Facebook and YouTube and Reddit did not was a sufficient distance from US policymakers such that TikTok’s policies weren’t dictated by Western oligarchs.
not bringing it under US billionaires specifically
That’s exactly what Biden (and then Trump)'s forced sale intended. Bring the US branch of TikTok under American control by awarding it to exclusively American financial interests.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
It was the exact same motivation under Biden, they just had the self-awareness to know that they needed to pretend.
Frankddamee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
As a millionaire living my best life, I’m giving $30k to the first 20 people who message me ‘grace.’ I understand that many people are struggling with bills, and I want to help reduce that burden.
FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Likely the consortium that currently bought TikTok does not agree with his political bias, where the Biden one did.
Same with Covid shots, Biden and Kamala were essentially saying that they would not or would hesitate to take “Trump’s Covid vaccine.” Then, a month later they won, and then had no problem pushing it onto everyone because it was no longer “Trump’s Vaccine,” buy their own administration’s. I can’t be the only one that remmebers that.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I was barely paying attention back then, things didn’t seem so dire at the time.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
The reasons why are probably rather “interesting”
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
$$$
IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
I saw it once and now I can’t unsee it.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
In before he’s on another right wing podcast apologising and saying it’s false.
Hegar@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Let's just share the news please.
Gavin Newsom's presidential campaign paying to insert his name in headlines should not be shared.
teft@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
And now because trump et al have been screaming for years that other tech companies have been suppressing right wing content the conservatives will claim turnabout is fair play or some other bullshit.
Also almost 1 in 3 americans is using that brain rot? We’re fucked.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I mean what did you expect from an organization called “TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC”? It literally has “US Digital Service” in it’s name.
BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
And I’m going to bring the NEW OWNERS of the App on my Podcast to DEFEND this Situation with ZERO Pushback!
-ALSO Gavin Newsom!
jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Are someone’s TikToks not trending anymore? 😆
There, there little guy. Why don’t you stand up your own blue sky server?
Frankddamee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
As a millionaire living my best life, I’m giving $30k to the first 20 people who message me ‘grace.’ I understand that many people are struggling with bills, and I want to help reduce that burden.
Tuscy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No shit Gavin Holmes. He’s just saying this to be anti Trump hoping he will bring in more stupid people to vote for him in the next election. Trump is pedo king but this grifter corrupt af too.
itisileclerk@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No shit Genius! China is 100% more democratic country than USA right now. R.I.P. USA!
FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Okay, I get it that many people are not happy with the current administration but to claim what you just claim tells me that you know nothing of China’s actual political structure and how it relates to its citizens. The USA as a whole, is still wah better than. The CCP.
Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If only he felt the same way about Israel censoring genocide and criticism of their government’s criminal behavior in our country
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Do we have any actual evidence or is this hearsay?
mjr@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Well, why did you think they forced bytedance to sell the US arm to a joint venture controlled by his chums?