#tik tok Ban

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

The fact that Tiktok is already calling him "President Trump" even though he hasn't been fucking inaugurated yet has made clear who its new owners are and what agenda they'll be pushing even though he spearheaded the fucking ban in the first place.

Anyway get prepared for Tiktok to veer VERY far right into Trump cultism. Hopefully we'll find a tiktok clone that isn't official state media, be it American or Chinese.

[x-cottage-goblin-x]

[abigmessofablog]

so tiktok is cracking down on left wing content and putting warnings like this up now

I hate it here

(edit: @ the people telling me to just delete it, i did almost as soon as I posted this)

[skellypolitics]

okay so i know im going to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but genuinely the propaganda in the tiktok pop-ups is baffling and the amount of people who don't see it is terrifying. this man wanted the app banned and now suddenly he is its savior? and the app is calling him "president trump" before he's even been sworn in? and theres commercials about it being back up? (commercial ads take more than a day to create and set up to run). along with this, there's the fact it's "back up" but you can't find it on the app store. at least when I searched it up, the first thing to come up was an ad for trump's cryptocurrency.

trump also admitted to cheating the election (or more so having musk do it).

I'm fully convinced they're gonna buy the app and slip in more propaganda disguised as TikTok videos. while I dislike him with a burning passion, musk is not a dumb man, and trump is very good at manipulation.

edit: I'm terrible at switching accounts when commenting but @greyysklls is my main blog.

[liminal-disaster]

it's what I'VE BEEN SAYING

“tik tok is brainrot I’m glad it’s getting deleted” YOU are ignoring an early warning sign of fascism bc silly dances and asmr annoys u. tik tok ban is a part of a MUCH bigger bill that indicates any foreign app, if deemed a threat, can be banned if the owner does not sell it. aka the government is mad bc they cannot censor & their capitalist puppet masters are mad they aren’t making money from it. and if ur ok w that……hm

[kid-blinks-eyepatch]

Take a quick break to look at some little goats:

okay you can continue now

[cellspex]

[ineffablecabbage]

#IF I SEE UNALIVE ON THIS WEBSITE SO HELP ME

tiktok refugees i believe you are few but it is VITAL that you know on tumblr you can speak freely. kill. die. sex. fuck. you can say things here

[irl]

Making my own post, but, can we also talk about these very weird and xenophobic ads that were rolling out in the last week(s) on TikTok when everyone was switching to The Little Red Book?

[im-jesus]

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[edsheerankinnie]

reminder for xiaohongshu/rednote users YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO PROPAGANDA!!! as awesome as this crossing of cultural divides is, the folks there are still made to believe false things about their country. yes, there is still sweatshop labor over there, and yes there is still an ongoing (silent) Uyghur genocide over there, and if folks tell u otherwise, you are witnessing propaganda in action. Remember that China does not have free speech like the US.

Anyhow, have fun if u use the app, just be mindful <3

[iimoontreesii]

i love my lack of algorithm so much. it is so much more rewarding to stumble upon something beautiful than have a curated experience made up of things other people think i like and want me to engage with. it's like going to a plant store and not a forrest. both can be good but i prefer regularly strolling through one far more than the other.

"lol tiktok users would rather learn mandarin than come to tumblr" yeah man that's crazy. who would have thought that people from the video-based dopamine-machine app wouldn't decide to join the text- and image- based no-algorithm website?

[imeverycliche]

3 separate notification for 1 video.

This is fucking disgusting and WORSE than tik tok being banned.

[the-fandom-crossroads]

As tiktok starts banning words based on pro left wing topics I feel like it's important to tell people this is not a new feature. Tiktok always had this code you just didn't notice it before. You know, the whole K1ll thing users do.

The no results found blacklist is standard code in all social apps in China. You can not have a chat feature without having a blacklist that blocks certain political words. That blacklist gets new words added to it by the Chinese Government and all apps update to ban the new words from search results. TikTok is the western version but it's code skeleton is from the Chinese version.

Remember the Winnie the Pooh is banned in China meme? It is because on Chinese Social media you cannot say Xi JinPing. But a picture comparing Barack Obama and Xi JinPing to a picture of Tigger and Winnie the Pooh started going around. So Chinese citizens critical about Xi JinPing started using the name Winnie the Pooh to mean Xi.

Winnie the Pooh was not banned in all of China you can still buy plushies and you won't like be arrested for owning it. But the characters that spell out Winnie the Pooh will show up with zero results found on social media sites.

Anyone playing on Rednote let me know if the ban is still in place. I'm actually curious since it's been a decade.

But yeah Tiktok either to kiss up to Trump or as part of the deal to get back online added a bunch of Leftist terms to their blacklist code. I am certain as the months go on new terms will be added.

At this point I do not recommend returning to TikTok if you found an alternative during the ban. It's about to be as right leaning as TruthSocial or Elon's side of Twitter. Anything critical of the now current administration will be silenced and removed from the platform.

[brinedpickle]

idk man, it just seems like a no-brainer that the easiest solution to combat 'propaganda' lies in education, in media literacy. being able to identify propaganda and understand how it is used, where to find it, what its goals are, whether it's good or bad isn't even difficult with just a little bit of emphasis and focus on it in education.

so it would seem, the simplest solution and the most long-lasting and effective tool to fight 'foreign propaganda' is to educate citizens, to have an informed public, and to allow consistent (and free!!) access to information while doing so.

but of course if us americans finally figured out how to recognize propaganda in their silly social media apps, the us government would have a real problem on their hands wouldn't they?

and this goes beyond party lines btw. everyone does this shit and we would all be better off if everyone knew how to recognize it when it happened