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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

It's literally the main reason people found out there was a genocide happening in Gaza.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

That's simply not true, you just spend too much time on TikTok

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I'm simply engaging with reality. The funny part that this is openly admitted, but here we have you pretending it's not the case. https://www.commondreams.org/news/mitt-romney-tiktok

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

This doesn't prove your point at all, there are plenty of other media outlets that were and still are reporting on Gaza. If you spent time outside of the brain rot app maybe you'd know this.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

How do you even learn something in 1 minute? I call bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Right! I don’t get the hate

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not a fan of TikTok, but they did this because they weren't towing the line on the master race's genocide as an example to others who would dare defy the racial hierarchy of the West. That seems DEEPLY problematic on EVERY level.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mitt Romney explicitly admitted that the ban was due to TikTok not toeing the line on Palestine.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Lol, you're suggesting he was lying about that? Antony Blinken was right next to him nodding along, is he also in on this lie?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago