Mitt Romney Admits Push to Ban TikTok Is Aimed at Censoring the Palestinian Genocide.

This is the real reason for the ban.

"National security" just translates to "public opinion of the war(s)"

Its more simplified to "lack of ability to control the narrative" and also "My billionaire masters cant turn a profit from it"
- It has diverted traffic and money away from sites such as Twitter, FB and Amazon after TT videos called them out and offered alternatives or avoiding completely/anticonsumerism perspectives.
And yet they were trying to ban it years before any of that happened...
- There are boatloads of wars usa tries to hide all the time
- The last time the US was not involved in a war was 1998

Mitt Romney might just be the only member of the GOP with at least a single honest bone in his body.

So that's who the democrats will run in 2028
- Irritatingly plausible. I'm going to be stoked if we get another election at all though.
- Well we'll have an actual primary if there's an election so if he gets through a democratic primary, that's on democrat voters. I also don't think he wants to run.
Still an evil fuck.
- Yeah, its just nice when they're honest about it.
  US republicans will be like: "8 men should own this country and everyone else can die in the gutter". US democrats will be like: "We need to reframe the conversation about the lived experiences of so many of our constituents, and reach solutions that include these realities [policies not different from those above]".
- The least evil fuck is still an evil fuck.
This isn’t a statement rooted in honesty or morality. This is saying the quiet part out loud.

I guess I am going to give my kids access to my VPN I don't trust the government at all any more

You should absolutely have your kids use a VPN.
- Yeah I have it set up on the home network I just never set it up on their cells

Palestinians getting to broadcast the horrors visited upon them by zionists is bad. /s

So let me get this straight....

The Tiktok ban, that was first proposed in Jan 2020, and was banned from government devices in Dec 2022, was getting first drafts for laws banned in Dec 2022, another law was proposed to block in nationwide in Jan 2023, was further restricted in March of 2023, and was signed into law to banned Tiktok nation wide on April 2023 (to be completely removed by Jan 2025) is solely being done to censor information about a conflict that started in Oct 2023...

Yeah, check outs. 👍

If you make the point simpler it works. "We are banning tiktok because it is a social media platform we have no ability to censor" with this in mind it makes sense to say "its because of isreal-palastine" because that is just a facet of not having control over platform censorship.
If you really believe that when they say they are getting rid of tiktok it is for national security you're a fucking rube, they have been taking away our freedoms for decades under the guise of national security, they sure as fuck dont consider it any sort of threat that any of the American social media platform would sell your data do a hostile foreign power. They want it gone because A) they cannot control what spreads on it, and B) their rich owners arnt profiting from it.
If you want to argue that any social media platform dying is a good thing, then i can at least sympathize (thought id argue this isnt a step in the direction of getting rid of social media in general), but if you think banning tiktok is about anything more than corruption you're a rube.
- If you make the point simpler it works. "We are banning tiktok because it is a social media platform we have no ability to censor"
  I won't argue against that.
  with this in mind it makes sense to say "its because of isreal-palastine" because that is just a facet of not having control over platform censorship.
  This part is illogical though. Claiming that due to a future event, we went back in time to block/and-or control a message makes no sense. This was my entire point. They are blocking it for many reasons and have been for years, but claiming the whole reason they spent years attempting to block it because of a single event that happened years later makes no sense.
The law was April 2024, so you know, after October 2023. The sudden political push to get that done instead of stall out line 2020-2023 is what's being talking about.
- Sorry, I confused it with to the RESTRICT act (Mar 2023), which is similar to the 2024 law.
The real reason is the American Oligarchs don't like foreign competition to their data collection.

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

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

- 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
- 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"

What a shitty government you have if the truth puts it on danger. I see why Russia and China appeal to this information (and misinformation) war, seems like the US people has grown to be very gullible, so whoever controls the narrative, controls them. And totally self inflicted, your own government did this to you so they could control you better.

And Amerikkka plays the information war too. I’m remembering a CIA operation to spread vaccine misinformation in the Philippines.
If China and Russia are “bad” because of the information war, Amerikkka is at the very least just as guilty. At the very least.
- It's just another cold war, being fight with bots and social engineering. I wonder how future historians are going to call this period, as also involves trading supply chains.

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.

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."
Because our empire is collapsing
- Entropy will not be denied.
  Rome always falls to the corruption of its elite run amuck.
- You guys are actively collapsing it.
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!"
did you miss the red scare? it's always been this way
You're moving out of golden age and into the 'find out' stage.
We used to look down on Soviet propaganda and book burning; congratulating ourselves on our free speech.
pssst
those were lies too
I’m British, we recently had Brexit. It will be “we have book burning but it’s different to that book burning”, or something like that anyway.
I.m.o. US media has watered down revolution and resistance to injustice into purely a matter of aesthetics. Our movies, shows, and books constantly recast events to gut the actual historical context. Its why MAGA people can imagine themselves as a sort of resistance, because they are so used to identifying the aesthetics and not the substance of political movements.

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.

Yes because nobody is talking about the Palestine/Israel situation on any other social media platforms. /s
But are they?
I know they are on Fediverse sites, but is it really being discussed on Twitter and Facebook?
- Reddit, twitter, Facebook, Twitch, YouTube, tiktok and now Lemmy. I can't think of a single social media site I've used in the last year that didn't have people talking about Palestine in one way or another.
  It's why I doubt the claim that the US government is specifically trying to ban tiktok because of the Palestine/Israel situation. They wanted TikTok gone before the October 7th 2023 attack.
  I believe it's more likely a nation security issue being owned by a Chinese company than anything to do with Palestine whatsoever.
- The /s at the end means he was being sarcastic.
  But truthfully, there are some places (such as isolated bubbles on Facebook, I would expect) where people honestly believe that opposition to Israel is based on antisemitism, being unaware of the genocide.
I maybe see it on threads but nothing on YouTube shorts. Like nothing whatsoever, reels is the only other place I see them. If you look at what has been popular especially what was popular in tags in December 2023, Free Palestine tags got hundreds of millions of views and likes while pro israeli tag got 2.5m. The Palestinian genocide js 100% why they’re banning it.
It's based in China, not Taiwan. (They are different countries, IMO.)
- 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.
Real 'chicken or egg' vibes with that one

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