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Welcome to America, where you are free to fuck off and die. Here's your bill.
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Tick tock was a bioweapon.
Poor use of this meme template. The last sentence is not even a question!
I find it funny when people get upset that a meme template gets used in a novel way. These aren't religious texts that are immutable, memes evolve over time.
Thinking this way is how you get "and that's everybody's problem" kermit
The good news is that the main contingent of people upset about TikTok getting banned have willingly rotted away their attention spans (ironically, through TikTok) to do anything meaningful about it. The moment they realize being mad takes effort they'll find something else to do.
I dunno... TikTok is the reason I now know about:
- Rosewood Massacre
- Black Wall St
- Tulsa Massacre
- 1985 MOVE Bombing
- Indigenous Customs for my neighboring nations
- Haluci Nation (An indigenous artist)
Just to name some highlights. These really could never gain traction on FB, enough to catch my attention. And then, lo and behold, we have Black and Brown content creators putting out good knowledge for those who just didn't know...
Instagram, facebook, twitter, youtube, and reddit: all well-known for improving the mental health and attention-span of their users. /s
Literally the only "argument" you people have.
"Wah, the other ones do it too!" yeah, no shit, and they should also be regulated. I don't think anyone here believes otherwise. Maybe, just maybe, it makes sense to prioritize the one that's under the control of a foreign adversary.
And even if you don't prioritize it, this is the one that we currently have the opportunity to regulate, so why would we refuse that just because we're not doing the same thing to the other ones RIGHT NOW? Once again allowing perfect to be the enemy of good.
Do you see now how that's not a real argument?
It's like if a student got caught cheating on a test, and complains that they shouldn't get an F, because "everyone else was cheating too." Were they cheating? Maybe. Is it relevant? Not at all.
By "censorship", they meant not being able to scream the N-word at black people.
Nah. You can still do that on X (formally Twitter)
And very soon facebook as well...
You can already say other anti-black slurs on Facebook.
and very soon Facebook as well...
I'd like tiktok to fully disappear but not for the reasons governments want it to. I just miss YouTube haikus and memes without music always playing.
the tiktok ban is making them all flood youtube… it’s going to get worse
TikTok has literally nothing to do with informing tho... it's literally the opposite.
I dunno... I was informed a lot on TikTok. Like, 2020-2022 I had a whole lot of "I was X years old when I learned this..." thanks to Black and Brown creators who got a voice on TikTok that was lacking anywhere else.
It's literally the main reason people found out there was a genocide happening in Gaza.
Who?
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You just need to train your algorithm, my tik tok always show a lot of interesting educational stuff. I can't remember the last time I saw any kind of soft porn there, my Instagram on the other hand is always shoving big and hard gym booties on my face.
Then you haven’t used it. The Reddit stream of 100% hate towards TikTok without understanding it is a very bad take. It provided a ton of momentum in recent US social movements.
Ya it's literally the easiest way to get a quick video on something you wanna learn. Not to mention (unlike other platforms) you get a friendly face that teaches it to you
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