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 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.
Remember how they forced
And that’s when I stopped caring about your opinion. How can they force anything? Anyone can choose not to do so.
Oh, wait. I forgot about that time my RSS client held a gun to my head and forced me to shampoo with pudding.
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.
Fuck Israel.
