Comment on More than a dozen states in the US have sued TikTok, accusing the social media platform of helping to drive a mental health crisis among teenagers

• SoupBrick@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The opposite, actually.

  hrw.org/…/systemic-censorship-palestine-content-i…

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  • tardigrada@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @SoupBrick

    And why is TikTok (and all other non-Chinese social media) banned in China then? Non-Western.narraties? Palestine? Other reasons?

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    • SoupBrick@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My friend, do you think China does not benefit from the destabilization caused by putting the USA’s blatant support of the ongoing genocide in Gaza?

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      • tardigrada@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Why is TikTok banned in China, my friend?

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• SattaRIP@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’re not trying to ban them though. And fines are nothing to a multibillion dollar company.

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The federal ban is for ByteDance not TickTok. And that’s separate from the states law suit. They’re unrelated.

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