Comment by yamazakiwi
11 hours ago
To be punk rock. The main reason I see thrown around is most younger users don't care if China has their user data and understand that the government is banning it for their own selfish reasons (money).
11 hours ago
To be punk rock. The main reason I see thrown around is most younger users don't care if China has their user data and understand that the government is banning it for their own selfish reasons (money).
You state that the US gov is banning it for money as if that’s a fact. I’d love to see the evidence for that.
The irony is that China bans essentially all US social media. I guess these users don’t care a ton their selfish bans?
I read it as that's how they think of it. It doesn't actually matter if it's true or not.
OP didn't say "for money".
As per Mitt Romney, it was banned because TikTok contained too much anti-Israel content (remember, the push for the ban became really strong very soon after Oct 7 when the genocide began)
Source: https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1787288209963290753
Freedom.
Americans want freedom of speech without interference from the US government.
TikTok was banned because of sharing anti-zionist videos documenting the genocide of Palestinians.
Americans turn to a dictatorial psuedo-communist government that has direct control over this social media platform so they can get MORE freedom?
I call bullshit.
Chinese social media has pretty transparent upfront censorship regime: dont criticize CCP, adhere to One China Policy, dont push LGBTQP+ propaganda, everything else is allowed.
Americans on red book are surprised to see the actual life in China and are shocked how different it is from american MSM propaganda about China, you can find plenty of these threads on Twitter how tiktok refugees are amazed by how brainwashed they were by US mass media
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