TikTok ban?

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 They want to ban TikTok because the western media can not control it. TikTok is one of the few places the youth can get a pro climate, anti-corporate, anti-military industrial complex, reform or anti-capitalist messages. While you might not agree with these things they are all covered by free speech but western media has left virtual no spaces for these topics.

 This is the real reason why they want to ban TikTok.

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They want to ban TikTok because the western media can not control it. TikTok is one of the few places the youth can get a pro climate, anti-corporate, anti-military industrial complex, reform or anti-capitalist message. While you might not agree with these things they are all covered by free speech but western media has left virtual no spaces for these topics.

 This is the real reason why they want to ban TikTok.

All that sh-t can be, and is, posted everywhere. For the moment, it seems that the Chinese are more interested in collecting information than they are deliberately controlling the narrative on TikTok outside of boosting generally divisive and controversial material, which is why certain information that otherwise goes against China's interests is allowed on the platform.

 It isn't though and American social media platforms have been caught shadow-banning and demonetizing or outright banning accounts solely on the basis of not following the corporate agenda.

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They want to ban TikTok because the western media can not control it. TikTok is one of the few places the youth can get a pro climate, anti-corporate, anti-military industrial complex, reform or anti-capitalist message. While you might not agree with these things they are all covered by free speech but western media has left virtual no spaces for these topics.

 This is the real reason why they want to ban TikTok.

All that sh-t can be, and is, posted everywhere. For the moment, it seems that the Chinese are more interested in collecting information than they are deliberately controlling the narrative on TikTok outside of boosting generally divisive and controversial material, which is why certain information that otherwise goes against China's interests is allowed on the platform.

 It isn't though and American social media platforms have been caught shadow-banning and demonetizing or outright banning accounts solely on the basis of not following the corporate agenda.

I don't believe it.

Facebook purges left-wing pages and individuals


Free speech ‘absolutist’ Elon Musk personally ordered the Twitter suspension of left-wing activist, report claims

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"Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are shady and untrustworthy individuals" is not exactly an argument for "The Chinese Communist Party is reliable and can be trusted fine"

 Nobody said they are or can be trusted. The CCP does have an interest in letting Americans criticize the worst aspects of American life. Just because they provide the platform for this, doesn't mean the messages people are sharing are not valid.

 

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We are allowed to criticize China on all our social media platforms, why do you think that is?

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Facebook purges left-wing pages and individuals

ho hooo man.  I was expecting this link to be to some dumb s--t, but I was expecting, like, The Intercept or something.

I was not expecting World Socialist Web Site -- online newspaper of the international Trotskyist movement.

https://newpol.org/on-gutter-journalism-and-purported-anti-imperialism/

One example of pro-Putin, pro-Assad “left-wing” propaganda combined with gutter journalism is the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS), run by a “Trotskyist” cult led by a political sicko named David North, which perpetuates a long worn-out tradition of inter-Trotskyist sectarian quarrels in fulfilling its role as apologist for Putin, Assad, and their friends. Another example is Grayzone, a website founded by a particularly versatile character named Max Blumenthal.

These websites have in common the habit of demonizing all left-wing critics of Putin and the likes of Assad by describing them as “agents of imperialism” or some equivalent. The main “target market” assigned to them is naturally the left-wing readership. This implies that they must strive not only to convince their readers of the virtues of Moscow and its clients by a resort to fake “left-wing” and “anti-imperialist” arguments, but also and most importantly to discredit their left-wing critics. In doing so, they resort to the oldest trick of the slandering profession: outright lies.

where the hell you gettin your information man

 This was reported at other sites as well. Also Facebook never explained why it banned these accounts and only started to restore them when it was reported by leftwing bloggers.

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They want to ban TikTok because the western media can not control it. TikTok is one of the few places the youth can get a pro climate, anti-corporate, anti-military industrial complex, reform or anti-capitalist messages. While you might not agree with these things they are all covered by free speech but western media has left virtual no spaces for these topics.

Does the entire World Wide Web, with the exception of this forum, just not exist to you?

 This just isn't true and also misses the points, a mass distribution platform can not be compared to some niche forum that almost nobody in America knows about. I was previously in favor of banning TikTok but seeing how they have left a space for all the above I mentioned, it can't do much more harm than our own media which has become horribly concentrated and corporate owned and hardly gives a platform to anything that doesn't fit the corporate agenda.

 Yes the Chinese are probably spying on you if you use TikTok but so is Meta, Google, and Twitter. You should know that before using any of these platforms.

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