▲ | roncesvalles 2 months ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sweet summer child, do you think TikTok would've been banned if it didn't come into focus as a hotbed for pro-Palestinian content? "The issue in the United States for support of Israel is not left and right. It is young and old. And the numbers of young people who think that Hamas' massacre was justified is shockingly and terrifyingly odd. And so we really have a TikTok problem." "[TikTok] is like Al Jazeera on steroids." - Jonathan Gleenblat, ADL. https://www.reddit.com/r/IsraelCrimes/comments/1i3vwll/we_ha... Something very appalling has just taken place in the USA. Old people have muzzled the free speech of young people. Americans spend more hours on TikTok than on television (but it mostly skews to young people), and now it's been taken away. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | soerxpso 2 months ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
If TikTok were sold to an American company, as the new law demands, why would that change anything about the amount of pro-Palestinian content? Just because the ADL said they don't like TikTok does not mean that's the motivation for the bill. You're still allowed to criticize Israel as much as you were a decade ago (which is to say, less than you're allowed to criticize the US, for some reason ;) but still). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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▲ | daedrdev 2 months ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TikTok was specifically banned because of one main reason. When it was being discussed in congress, they told their users to complain to their congresspeople, and posted their congresspersons number. Then when a bunch of unhinged teens called threatening to kill themselves, congress members rightfully went "What the fuck" and the bill gained enormous support | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | HDThoreaun 2 months ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tik tok was banned because it tried to use children to start a political movement. Unfortunately for them children can not vote so the movement did nothing other than scare adults. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | zahlman 2 months ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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