• Facebones@reddthat.com
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    6 months ago

    A federal tiktok ban is a desperate attempt to keep young people from discussing Joes pet genocide where they can’t be censored by the us govt.

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      Except even if they ban TikTok, that won’t work. Because there’s always the fediverse and nostr. If somebody wants to talk about something on social media, they will talk about it, and they will talk about it on services that cannot and or will not ban them. So good luck with that.

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        The fediverse has less than 10M users. Tiktok has a billion. It doesnt compare. Its like saying we should allow banning newspapers or radio because people will still share information over phone calls

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            No they wont theyll go to instagram reels since it already is a tiktok clone on an app they already use and already has an algorithm and an infrastructure and is easy to use. Theyll just be fed alt right and anti vax propaganda now instead of all the leftist in depth videos with sources on tiktok that consistently go viral

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              This. People who believe the reasoning behind this need to understand that the same arguments were made last year and the idea was laughed at.

              What’s different is Biden took on another proxy war on the side of genocide and tiktok is the only platform they can’t prevent using the word “genocide”