At first I was surprised that the LA Times had the balls to publish something like this. Then I reread the url.
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If a full Apple modal dialog screen thanking Trump pre-emptively isn't enough to convince you TikTok is bootlicking, I don't know what to tell you.
Something that occurred to me this morning is that its a bit worse than just them sucking up to Trump with that to get unbanned; to my understanding, he's just stated he wont enforce the ban law, so if he was to change his mind, he wouldnt need congress to pass another I dont think? He'd just need to start enforcing the existing one. That means that TikTok has a strong incentive to continue sucking up to him throughout his whole term, to stay on his good side. But it goes further, because it also creates an incentive for other corporate social medias that compete with TikTok to do the same (though admittedly, their owners seem to want to anyway), in the hopes that they can convince him to enforce the ban again and remove some of their competition.
Yep, he's got all the big social networks under his control now, basically. Tie that to the cowardice of the mainstream media, and he's got an opportunity to manufacture consent on pretty much anything he wants. And Democrats helped him do it because they didn't want to be criticised over Gaza on tiktok.
he’s got all the big social networks under his control now, basically. Tie that to the cowardice of the mainstream media, and he’s got an opportunity to manufacture consent on pretty much anything
You just described 1930s Germany and the aggregation of Hitler's power.
It can happen anywhere. And now it's happening here.
Yep, totally agree.
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Mark my words.
TikTok will become another right wing cesspool. Just like Facebook. Just like X/Twitter.
Time to swap to another app. It's not that hard. It really isn't. We're pretty much all on Lemmy because we got tired of Reddit. Just. Swap. Apps.
Can anyone trust tiktok to not share your information with the Trump administration now?
Whitehouse.gov was scrubbed yesterday too. I tried to search Biden’s protections on drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and got the 404 not found error and redirected “home” to a video of the helicopter landing and Trump getting out on the Whitehouse lawn.
Pathetic.
All that should be preserved and should be easily accessible by the public. Links for past governance should never be removed.
bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov
Does this not work? I'm not sure to what extent it is archived.
This is going to be an era where people will have to move around on social media. I hope some decent alternative can happen for people to dip out.
Maybe people can give up social media. I won't hold my breath though. People are fuckin addicted.
Everyone has their vices. I replaced fb with reddit over a decade ago. Never bothered with the rest of sm because it was mostly acquaintances posting boring shit and I had group chats with friends.
Now I've replaced 99% of my reddit usage with lemmy / hackernews, and lost half my friends due to the fascist propaganda sphere (anti-vaxer/sjw/trans dumb shit). It'd be really hard to abandon them entirely because I avoid most MSM (due to the overt corporate propaganda / censorship) and curating an rss feed is a-lot more effort. Dropping everything would result in becoming completely ignorant of the world.
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It would have been better for it to just have been banned and be done with it. Move on. Now, we will have the same issue we have with Twitter. People refuse to move on despite how terrible the platform is because they are addicted to it.
If it had been banned, it would have, likely, opened the door for a new social media landscape to take shape. Sure, banning isn't good, but turning into what it's becoming is, arguably, worse.
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I don't have TikTok. Anyone here have it and can confirm this themselves?
It's specifically the rigged election conspiracy. I have TikTok and have seen several anti Trump videos just today.
I saw this post a few days ago, and the person shared screenshots. https://midwest.social/post/22024411
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Everywhere except Bluesky seems to be.
Mastodon? Lemmy? Etc.
My tinfoil hat is definitely in between this and Facebook/instagram doing the exact same thing at the exact same time.
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Gosh, imagine that.
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