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[–] 114 points 10 months ago

I don't know who needs to see this but stop using TikTok!

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  • [–] 85 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    They redacted the fucking bullet point? lmao

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  • [–] 156 points 10 months ago (13 children)

    Why do you think Chump forced ByteDance to sell to his US buddy? See above.

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Oh, yeah, I called it on day one. They were only pushing the ban because they wanted to capture it. Of course the new owner would be MAGA.

    Wait until they start demanding that AMERICAN companies be sold to a buyer of their choice.

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    The server move hasn't happened yet. This is TikTok doing what TikTok does because they, the Chinese Dictatorship, have always and will always support the Trump regime.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    They don't need to move the server to change the algorithm or make auto filters. Do you think this requires physical access to servers or something?

    If Chinese dictators supported trump they wouldn't have been blasting Israels atrocities for all to see. China benefits from showing the world US is failing. You know his son in law has deep ties with Israel, right?

    But yeah, always blame the boogeyman, even when your own fascists edgelords are beating the living shit out your country right in front of you. 👌

    Now, make up some strawman.

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  • [–] 51 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Yeah and EA is blocking saying Epstein, but you can say trump and Biden but not Epstein. A lot of companies are protecting the pedos.

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  • [+] -32 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    If I ran a game company I'd block this shit as well. Morons need to turn literally every platform into some political squabble, and I wouldn't tolerate it.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    You shouldnt have to turn every talk into a political one. If anyone would actually do anything about all the injustice, there would be less injustice to speak of. You remember when you were little and you discussed the hells of nuclear warfare with your other 10 year old friends on minecraft? No? Maybe thats because there wasnt an active nuclear war going on, perhaps? One that people like you enable by turning a blind eye?

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  • [–] -3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    It's been a hundred years and we're still making WWII movies. You think living through it is going to be any less worthy of attention?

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  • [+] -34 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Listen dummy, I know this is very hard for you to understand because you're passionate about some political things, but you're proving my point, people play games to get away from this shit.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago

    Sounds like you're playing the wrong games then. Ever heard of Breath of the Wild? Stardew Valley is supposed to be pretty chill. Or you can always turn off your mic. Or mute specific players. Or play multiplayer games that don't have voice chat. The possibilities are practically endless. But nah, mass censorship is the better option!

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    i dont know what games you're playing but you seemed to be getting way to upset over it for no reason you might need to seek help if your games is making this angry for you to PROJECT your problems like that. by the way most games are going to be political anyways.

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  • [–] 44 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Hate to ask this way but is that text real?

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  • [–] 27 points 10 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Is there a name for the document? Or a ID?

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  • [–] 74 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

    Which document is this? I wanna look it up. EDIT: I found them! It looks like they really are just pulling documents that implicate Trump as they get discovered, and redacting them.

    Partially Redacted (Page 4)

    Unredacted (Page 303)

    These are the worst Fascists ever. Completely incompetent at spinning political narratives.

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  • [+] -6 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Technically, the Chinese dictatorship claims to be the communist flavor of autocracy.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    What? Huh? Whuh? I think you got your posts mixed up, guy.

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    You said

    These are the worst Fascists ever.

    But very technically speaking fascism is a right wing autocracy while (supposed) communism such as the ones who made and operate TikTok claim to be "left-wing" autocracy.

    Its purely semantics and a difference without distinction, but I wanted to make sure we weren't absolving the CCP of this crime because a lot of comments on this post are attempting to do exactly that and shift blame to the new owners who don't actually have the algorithm yet.

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  • [–] 63 points 10 months ago

    And you're.... Surprised?

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  • [–] 30 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    Still not worth anything to install that spyware on my phone, got it.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    That's the problem with the problem with social media.

    It isn't the apps.

    It's they people are so fucking stupid and addicted they're going to keep feeding it.

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  • [–] -4 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    But Facebook messenger is cool amirite

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    I was being sarcastic. So many people I know say TikTok bad mmkay but insist on using FB messenger for personal comms.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    The sarcasm was clear to me at least. 😔

    I refuse TikTok, and I would refuse Messenger too if I didn't have a whole bunch of people I talk to that refuse to leave Facebook.

    I am however thinking about uninstalling Messenger so that communication with me will be hampered by those who don't switch to something more reasonable. No instant connection e.g. Replies will be delayed, and so on.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, id lose a ton of communication if I stopped messenger and my friends would just call me the crazy conspiracy guy. "We dont care if they steal our data and spy, we are being spied on anyways, why do you care?" They say.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I hate this argument. It's like when I tell my kids not to spill on their clothes and my wife is like "their clothes are already dirty, go easy". I'm like that's not the point. The point is to teach them to not spill. Not to try and avoid sullying an already sullied shirt. ffs, this concept flies above some people's heads sometimes.

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Of course, they just sold to Ellison and friends. It's now just another mouthpiece for the Conservative Propaganda Machine.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    is the netflix WB/ paramount purchase still going on, ellison is trying to get that because of CCN as well.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Netflix is buying Warner. When Ellison heard about it, he tried to step in and steal the sale, but he was rejected.

    That seems to indicate that Ellison is going to go after any media property he can get his hands on. Normally, regulatory agencies would prevent him from owning too much, but none of that will apply these days. He's already part of the TikTok deal.

    IF Democrats regain power, it will be necessary to look at media ownership, and make adjustments if necessary. Trump forced the sale of TikTok to a conservative ownership, the Dems should feel comfortable doing the same thing in reverse, forcing divestiture where necessary.

    Let'em cry about it like the little treasonous little PedoCon bitches they are.

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  • [–] 47 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Went from Chinese censorship to American censorship LOL

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago

    If you upload an all-black image does it get flagged?

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  • [–] 47 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Trump already said that the new deal was going to make TikTok 100% MAGA.

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  • [–] 44 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

    I see one rich asshole named called larry ellison has begun to fulfill his purpose.

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    It's supposed to be (O)ne (R)ich (A)sshole (C)alled (L)arry (E)llison. Saying named throws the whole oracle thing out and then you might as well use more fun names like decrepit ass-goblin, or world champion cum wrangler to describe him

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Continuing to fulfill his purpose. Was pretty disappointing seeing CBS News pushing that sane-washing town hall with Erika Kirk with a temporary hard link on its navbar, but the Larry->David->Bari chain is complete and paying off there too.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago

    Try posting a fully redacted page, let's see if that gets removed too

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    TikToks level of censorship SUCKS its the reason we have those dumb "algorithm-friendly" alternatives for serious topics. Can't say people were KILLED so you gotta say they're UNALIVE.

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  • [–] 31 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Somewhat related note / PSA to all:

    When typing on Android 16 using Gboard (with permissions and custom dictionary turned off), the words "pedophile," "pedophilia," and "pedophilic" do not show up in the suggested set of words or autocorrections. It doesn't say these are spelled wrong after you complete the word though. It simply offers no suggestions after "pedoph-" is typed and shows literally nothing when you put the cursor on the completed word, unlike any other word.

    Out of curiosity, I tried a bunch of swear words and slurs. Gboard will gladly show the N word if typed correctly for example, but not pedophile. ("Cocksucker" is the only other word I can find that has this seeming lack of dictionary presence.)

    The fuck?

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    It's likely only showing autocomplete for commonly used works, or maybe words that are statistically likely to be next, otherwise the list would be enourmous. There is a setting to not show offensive words, disabling that make is show pedophile as an option.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Good call on the offensive words being disabled as suggestions. I definitely thought I had offensive word suggestions enabled, considering "cunt" and "dickwad" and all sorts of other stuff showed up (stuff I don't recall typing before anyway) when I wasn't enabling it.

    Just to confirm, I have offensive words enabled now and yes, pedophile and its relatives do show up. So it's just ... The hierarchy of offensiveness seems weird, eh.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The hierarchy of offensiveness seems weird

    I was initially of the same opinion, but actually, which of those would you be most offended to be called? I wonder if that's the scale they're using?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    I absolutely get where you're coming from, in the sense that being called a pedophile is way more damningly offensive than simply being a cunty cocksucker, for example.

    It does seem like a derived scale though if that's the intent, like they're ranking the actionability or capacity of the word to offend rather than the "how bad is this to say on network TV" level of offensiveness I'd expect.

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  • [–] 30 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    tiktok is owned by maga, isn't it?

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    Yes, trying to forcibly give ownership of it to one of his lackies.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Everyone needs to be boycotting TikTok hard. Bring more people to Lemmy, Bluesky, Mastodon, PeerTube and other more ethical alternatives.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    So that's why they insisted on selling it to Americans?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Freedom of expression was a great moto to grab power. Now: censorship of material already censored. I think most people slowly realize what's going on thanks to moves like this. Do they?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Hard to say. Even when elections happen it will be hard to say if those elections represented the views of the people.

    EDIT: To clarify, I think it's important that all of us vote with no exception and that democracy is the only answer, but even if people are learning the next US election might be so unfair that it doesn't show in the results.

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  • [+] -11 points 10 months ago

    Oh no! Anyway

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