In burger corp (USA) the internet is censored to keep the people uninformed about different world events.

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

TikTok has literally nothing to do with informing tho... it's literally the opposite.

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
It's literally the main reason people found out there was a genocide happening in Gaza.
- Who?
- That's simply not true, you just spend too much time on TikTok
- Not really. There are plenty of social media apps and services that aren't toeing the line. TikTok is being targeted because of their relatioship with China.
- I could be wrong, but I believe they TikTok ban stuff was in motion before Oct. 7 (assuming that's what you're referring to). Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
All news agencies in my country have a tik tok account and regularly use it to publish exactly the same news as they do on their newspapers or on TV. I don't see how watching that news on tik tok is any different that turning on the TV and watching it there.
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.
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.

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.

Remember Vine? I miss Vine.
- I didn't use it explicitly but the memes that filtered out of it into other platforms were great. Tiktok and it's initial music focus ruined short form video memes in my opinion

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...

Welcome to America, where you are free to fuck off and die. Here's your bill.

Tick tock was a bioweapon.

Bad take. We're in the modern world of information warfare: expecting every citizen to be immune to psychological trickery from a nation spending tens of billions to research and test ways to trick them is unrealistic and unreasonable. There's people with PhDs in human psychology spending their entire time and untold amounts of compute power trying to stoke the flames of division and push misinformation and you think we should allow it?

But enough about the US intelligence-industrial complex.
- The US government isn't in charge of one of the largest social media platforms in the world. US corporations are absolutely doing this as well, but that's an argument for more regulation not to grant China free reign
This is such peak western projection holy shit
expecting every citizen to be immune to psychological trickery from a nation spending tens of billions to research and test ways to trick them is unrealistic and unreasonable.
Trying to scrub all properganda from our lives is also impossible. Better to get a balanced media diet from a variety of sources.
- That's hard when people smarter than you are being paid billions to study and test exactly how to keep you addicted to their media platform. And if that doesn't work, they'll just buy your preferred media platform and devolve it themselves.

This is actually a good point. Last time I said something good about China I was attacked on lemmy for it being censored. As if that doesn’t happen here

There is no contradiction here, because the communists, with their customary candor, acknowledge the necessity of stifling speech they deem to be harmful. It is the liberals, those self-appointed guardians of unfettered discourse, who are engaging in hypocrisy. They wax lyrical about the sanctity of free expression, only to abandon their lofty principles the moment their narrative falters.
- because the communists,
  Show us on the doll where the communists touched you...

Cool. Now do Meta and Twitter.

I'm not going to pretend losing tik tok, or any social media, is some travesty. Sorry.

Are you saying next are going to be Facebook, Twitter and maybe Fox? Dont give me hope...

what world event is exclusive to tiktok?

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.

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.
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...