I don’t buy this narrative. TikTok is facing a ban because it’s a huge loaded gun in the hand of a foreign adversary that is actively pushing the boundaries on covert cyber warfare. Remember how they forced users to call their reps before they could use the app? Imagine that capability used in tandem with a more traditional attack. And of course there’s the potential for Russian style disinformation campaigns.
Either way, I find out seriously unlikely that it has anything to do with support for Palestine. Support for Palestine is actively growing on all platforms and I seriously doubt anybody has hard evidence that tiktok is pushing that forward.
I attempted to point out the hipocracy in the US stance on TikTok and got bangers like “ohh, poor chinese companies, won’t anyone think of the chinese companies!”
There aren’t many people on Lemmee who can think much deeper than what FOX tells them. :[
Granted, TikTok is a privacy violation nightmare – if we’re going to implement rules for them, we need to implement them across the board. Personal data aggregators such as Reddit, TikTok, Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, et. al. need to have new laws created which fence off their collection of personal data, and more importantly their ability to share it without warrants to police and government.
Israel and AIPAC are getting desperate in their attempts to hide their behavior and attitudes and that censorship is not a new thing. Here’s a 2-minute clip from an interview with former President Jimmy Carter from 2007 where he describes the apartheid in Palestine/Israel and how not a single member of Congress that he’s aware of would be allowed to speak out against it. That interview from 17 years ago could be reused word-for-word today. Ironically the longest version I found was on TikTok so watch it while you can I guess because uncensored news is being legislated out of existence.
Archived version of the actual WSJ report. Still cuts off part of the article unfortunately.
After Trump’s ban attempt, TikTok set to work walling off its U.S. data, in an attempt to reassure a government panel that TikTok has been negotiating with and let it remain in the U.S. TikTok ran television ads featuring all-American themes, including veterans and American flags. When Montana tried to ban TikTok, the company won an injunction temporarily blocking the state law, with a federal judge saying it likely violated the First Amendment.
Anthony Goldbloom, a San Francisco-based data scientist and tech executive, started analyzing data TikTok published in its dashboard for ad buyers showing the number of times users watched videos with certain hashtags. He found far more views for videos with pro-Palestinian hashtags than those with pro-Israel hashtags. While the ratio fluctuated, he found that at times it ran 69 to 1 in favor of videos with pro-Palestinian hashtags.
Monaco and other Biden administration officials helped with another problem. The House China committee expected that even if the legislation passed Congress and the president signed it, TikTok would sue, arguing that it violated the First Amendment. So the committee teamed up with the Biden administration on how it could be written to best survive a legal challenge.
I'm gay and came out over 40 years ago. If someone calls me gay, I thank them for recognizing the superpower within me. Gay has been a gift from heaven above, and if we're honest human animals, all of us have a big variety of sexual thoughts and desires. It's all just sexuality, no more important than what your favorite food is, but no less important than food either.
Honestly yeah. I was once ashamed, but it’s kinda awesome. I get a ton of experiences that I’m so grateful to have had that I wouldn’t if I wasn’t gay. I wouldn’t miss them if I didn’t know about them, but I’d never knowingly trade them. This is the way I am and I’m glad I get to be me instead of being someone else.
I was lucky to have a supportive environment and parents, so I really never felt any "shame" over being gay - and I admit, it's hard for me to understand why anybody would. I do live in a very ultra conservative red state, and I get a lot of bigoted small minded comments, but to me it just reflects that person's own inner turmoil. And I really would choose being gay every time if I was given any choice of sexual orientation.
Then you haven't met my wife's extended family, LOL. A couple of them are real pieces of work. People are people after all.
That said, Sikhism as a non-proselytizing and minority religion (outside Punjab) will tend not to have as many religious zealots up in everybody's face.
I have family by marriage in the Sikh community, including my father-in-law. I have all the respect in the world for anyone who can take that level of ignorance and instead of making the decision to try to escape the situation with simple demographic facts -- a decision which is both rational for their self-preservation and vital to their self-identity -- they instead volunteer to stay in danger because standing up for the oppressed is the right thing to do. It's a very peculiar and heartbreaking burden that Sikhs have in many countries, and I've seen it taken on bravely much more often than not.
It’s always absurd when a bigot apologizes to unintended targets of their hate. “Oh no, I didn’t mean you. It’s just that I don’t know the difference between you and the people I hate. My mistake.”
You’d think that making the mistake in the first place invalidated the entire worldview and basis for hatred.
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