• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Everyone moving to The Little Red Book (or “RedNote”) is creating some very funny interactions, lmao. Super cute honestly

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    Yes because nobody is talking about the Palestine/Israel situation on any other social media platforms. /s

    The more likely reason is that it’s a social media company that the government currently has zero control over. Being owned by a (Taiwanese?) company the US can’t ask them to track data and the CIA/FBI can’t fill it with propaganda or whatever else they want.

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        My apologies, I got the Asian countries all jumbled up in my head. The CEO of TikTok is from Singapore, but the parent company of TikTok (ByteDance) is Chinese.

        So throw in a layer of national security concerns and it makes far more logical sense why they want to have China sell the US side of TikTok to an American owned company.

        I still don’t think the Palestine situation has much of anything to do with what’s going on with the US governments distain for TikTok. They didn’t like it way before the Israel/Palestine situation kicked off again.

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    The second someone starts showing American war crimes they are a security risk. But Americans somehow still believe in free speech.

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      The second someone starts showing American war crimes they are a security risk. But Americans somehow still believe in free speech.

      What country are you from? I’d love to know where a government exists that doesn’t lie to its people/hide its own crimes.

      And for the record, no Americans under the age of 60 I know actually believe the shit we’re fed. If anything, we’re just becoming more and more apathetic towards the truth and the lies. Even if we know the truth and scream it from the rooftops, it does nothing. They’ve polluted the truth so much it’s become too much of a burden for many to want to deal with.

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        no Americans under the age of 60 I know actually believe the shit we’re fed

        “No one is immune to propaganda” means you too buddy

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        Even if we know the truth and scream it from the rooftops, it does nothing. They’ve polluted the truth so much it’s become too much of a burden for many to want to deal with.

        If you havent, you should watch an Adam Curtis documentary called “The Power Of Nightmares

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    What happened to us (Americans)? We used to look down on Soviet propaganda and book burning; congratulating ourselves on our free speech. Now we’re burning books and outlawing news sources that don’t abide by the official propaganda. It’s sickening.

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      The US has always had propaganda and book burning, it’s just really good at projection. Hell, even D&D was attacked for being “satanic.”

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      Lol, classic American. Sees Americans doing bad things in America in a way that America has always done: “what are we, a bunch of Russians!”

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      We used to look down on Soviet propaganda and book burning; congratulating ourselves on our free speech.

      pssst

      those were lies too

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    so is tiktok the main place for Palestinian content these days? it seems to have chilled out everywhere else now the election is over