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To be punk rock. The main reason I see thrown around is most younger users don't care if China has their user data and understand that the government is banning it for their own selfish reasons (money).

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azinman2 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You state that the US gov is banning it for money as if that’s a fact. I’d love to see the evidence for that.

The irony is that China bans essentially all US social media. I guess these users don’t care a ton their selfish bans?

	▲	johnny22 10 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I read it as that's how they think of it. It doesn't actually matter if it's true or not.
	▲	hobo_in_library 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		OP didn't say "for money". As per Mitt Romney, it was banned because TikTok contained too much anti-Israel content (remember, the push for the ban became really strong very soon after Oct 7 when the genocide began) Source: https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1787288209963290753

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slt2021 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Freedom.

Americans want freedom of speech without interference from the US government.

TikTok was banned because of sharing anti-zionist videos documenting the genocide of Palestinians.

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switchbak 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Americans turn to a dictatorial psuedo-communist government that has direct control over this social media platform so they can get MORE freedom?

I call bullshit.

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slt2021 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Chinese social media has pretty transparent upfront censorship regime: dont criticize CCP, adhere to One China Policy, dont push LGBTQP+ propaganda, everything else is allowed.

Americans on red book are surprised to see the actual life in China and are shocked how different it is from american MSM propaganda about China, you can find plenty of these threads on Twitter how tiktok refugees are amazed by how brainwashed they were by US mass media

	▲	IAmGraydon 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Please give us some examples of MSM propaganda about China.
	▲	switchbak 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Ok, so besides not being able to talk about these immediate 3 third rails, we're completely free to talk about anything. What a perfect platform for free speech idealists to flock to. What in the actual hell, why wouldn't they go to one of the various other free sites that isn't controlled by such an obvious bad actor? Unless of course they don't care at all about that and they're really being quite dumb. And yes, of course real life in China is different than that displayed in corporate US media. Real life in France, Australia, Nigeria and Svalbard are all different than what is displayed there too. None of that makes it a good idea to be so outrageously stupid as to adopt such a platform.