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US TikTok ban linked to pro-Palestine content rather than China threat, insiders reveal
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Lol, this comment was legitimately censored for making the joke "Jews... are controlling the media?"
Edit: I thought about it more, then did some quick searching and it actually shouldn't be a joke.
Didn't take long at all to find these articles of people being punished in Hollywood for calling out Israel's genocide of Palestinians.
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/hollywood-israel-palestine-criticism-melissa-barrera-scream-jenna-ortega-susan-sarandon-maha-dakhil-1234896903/
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/12/7/hollywoods-israel-problem
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/hollywood-israel-palestine-susan-sarandon-roger-waters-1236208303/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/hollywood-needs-reckoning-pro-israel-cancel-culture
It's sad that we're not even allowed to mention how they censor us without being censored. That's how bad it's gotten.
Do not use anti-zionism (OK) as a guise for your antisemitism (bad)
This comment was censored for saying "You're right. Zionists are controlling the media."
Yes, antisemitism will be removed even when it’s a “joke.”
What shouldn’t be a joke?
We know where “ironic” bigotry tends to lead: to an online space becoming a Nazi bar.
It's not censorship; it's content moderation — how hard is it to not make racist jokes on an ostensibly ML forum‽
It is 100% censorship when what I'm saying accurately describes reality.
We're literally not allowed to say the truth because of censorship.