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Mitt Romney Admits Push to Ban TikTok Is Aimed at Censoring the Palestinian Genocide. (www.commondreams.org)
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[โ€“] Xatolos@reddthat.com -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you make the point simpler it works. "We are banning tiktok because it is a social media platform we have no ability to censor"

I won't argue against that.

with this in mind it makes sense to say "its because of isreal-palastine" because that is just a facet of not having control over platform censorship.

This part is illogical though. Claiming that due to a future event, we went back in time to block/and-or control a message makes no sense. This was my entire point. They are blocking it for many reasons and have been for years, but claiming the whole reason they spent years attempting to block it because of a single event that happened years later makes no sense.

[โ€“] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

single event that happened years later makes no sense.

The genocide of palestinians didn't begin in 2022. And the above commenter is correct, the US wants full control of its social media in order to spread pro-US foreign policy views, and tiktok is a threat to that.