• NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
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      This is the same conclusion Second Thought came to a while back in one of his youtube videos. While I don’t disagree with the conclusion, I also wouldn’t say it’s mutually exclusive to reasoning promoted by the mainstream media of "foreign influence. " What’s really wild is the idea that the ban is also being pushed by “foreign influence.”

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        Plausible deniability, 2 birds with 1 stone. There are hundreds of companies with foreign investors and influence. TikTok has tried to work with investigators and even spent $1.5 billion on a server framework for Project Texas. If TikTok was a crappy app and wasn’t the primary source of news for young adults, the government wouldn’t care.

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        The concept that “foreign influence” can destabilize the system means the system itself is not transparent and fair enough.

        It means local influence does not work in public interest, and the problem is not abroad, it’s in your government.

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      You have got to be kidding. Did you really just link the canary? The same canary that got banned from Twitter for making antisemitic remarks.

      They also failed dozens of fact checks.

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          The ban on tiktok was going through before palestine attacked Israel. This article is just pure speculation and conspiracy theories.

          The Canary has faced criticism for claiming that Israel is an apartheid state for its occupation of the West Bank. According to the Jewish Chronicle, Kerry-Anne Mendoza, the editor-in-chief, had her Twitter account suspended when she compared Jewish Labour Supporters with South Africa’s Apartheid “Imagine if during a day of international solidarity with the oppressed of Apartheid South Africa the Labour leadership opted instead to spend the day with white supremacists. That’s what Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner are doing today.”

          What great journalists.

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        Yes. This has been ongoing since TikTok acquired musical.ly. The CFIUS didn’t care as much until it became popular. TikTok has tried to comply, so why isn’t the CFIUS and there considerations being heeded?

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        And back then the Republicans were the party screaming about banning TikTok.

        Now that israel is involved this became a lot less partisan very quickly.

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          I vote Democrat. I and everyone I’m aware of who wasn’t already addicted to TikTok supported banning it.

          Maybe if your arguments contained an iota of good faith, they’d be taken seriously

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      This move against TikTok predates the Hamas attacks and Israel’s military action. It’s insane that TikTok’s ban is because teens are more likely to be pro-palestine.