• potatopotato@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Don’t use TikTok, don’t really care too much either way, but watching this whole thing unfold is starting to open my eyes to the ways these companies can shape public opinion.

    They’re apparently sending notifications to people to contact their reps and it seems very likely that they’re promoting content that advocates against the ban.

    I’m not a fan of censorship or blocking internet services but TikTok really seems to trying to make a good case for it.

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      11 months ago

      This isn’t the first time a company has done that. Uber famously used pop up ads to get people to vote for a ballot proposition. Enron went so hard on PR that everyone blamed the government for people losing the pension that had already been embezzled by the executives.

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          If you’re gonna ban this speech, then you should ban all speech from foreign governments, including the propaganda Israel is filling our country with for their genocide.

          But this same congress who is so ready to silence China is unwilling to silence Israel. And Israel is not our ally. Our allies don’t try to drag us into genocides.

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        11 months ago

        Wait. Are you blaming China for the anti Israel movement in politics?

        That’s… Impressive. Hilarious too but also impressive.

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            My dude. No leftist is pro Hamas. Hamas wants to create a religious ethnostate just like Israel wants to create a religious ethnostate. We ARE pro Palestinian freedom. But Israel is the one who keeps making Hamas the dominant Palestinian political party, in order to use them as an excuse to continue their genocide.

            Stop pretending to know what the left thinks when you’ve clearly never actually spoken to their members.

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            11 months ago

            Sure and my racist uncle’s joke about drowning a random person totally isn’t just his black guy joke barely concealed.

            The narrative has for months been that anyone who is critical of Israel is Pro Hamas. And now you want us to believe that’s changed when someone is defending the most breathtakingly xenophobic bill in modern times?

            Lmao. No.