The pressure campaign worked and TikTok has been neutered ever since.

They appointed an exIDF instructor to determine what's hate speech...

Suddenly it wasn't a problem anymore

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So many people swallowed the Democrat lie that it was Chinese surveillance even though the ADL were screaming about Gen Z's pro Palestine views.

We are now facing a time where democracy is in critical condition, but a dragnet of surveillance and suppression has already closed around young activists, an entire movement has been intimidated into silence, and the social media networks appear to be pandering to the federal government. To adopt the logic of information-nationalism is to commit to a course of action that is at odds with democracy. Now, the things that we need the most in this moment are things we have already given away.

We have always been at war with TikTok. We have never been at war with TikTok. And if we are lucky, one day, we can all look back and be able to tell the truth about ourselves — how we imprisoned our children, dismantled our universities, and tried to ban a scrolling video app, all because we could not admit that we were wrong about Palestine.

This article reads like a college term paper.

It feels like they value clever wordsmithing over making a clear point.

Edit: accidentally a word

Great article

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