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TikTok is not much different than Instagram and Youtube Shorts in the western world. That it is heavily moderated in China would not surprise me either. But i w

TikTok is not much different than Instagram and Youtube Shorts in the western world. That it is heavily moderated in China would not surprise me either. But i wouldn't call that an "agenda"

blackhaz 3y ago
What else is it then? An instrument in the hands of a dictatorship.
- darkwater 3y ago
  Let's ban schools because they can be used by dictatorships to inoculate their propaganda?
  - edgyquant 3y ago
    Yea we should ban schools ran by foreign dictators on American soil. Any more obvious questions?
    - darkwater 3y ago
      Are you saying TikTok is inoculating Chinese propaganda in Americans' minds? Are you really saying that?
      - local_crmdgeon 3y ago
        I’ve seen it, there’s a ton of evidence of it
throwaway2990 3y ago
They are much much different. TikTok is full of anti America propaganda. It rarely gets removed. Anything anti China doesn’t last long. Instagram has hardly any anti China or anti America propaganda. And it’s certainly not recommended to you within minutes of using the app for the first time. Opened TikTok in Taiwan and almost immediately got anti America propaganda. Blaming America for covid.
- zabana 3y ago
  The opposite is absolutely true. Try and question "America's greatest ally ever" and their policies and see how long you last on these platforms. When critiquing china, remember that you're essentially looking in the mirror.
  - edgyquant 3y ago
    That’s funny because this argument has been exposed as complete bullshit in the last month. You should find a better example to try and be dishonest about nowadays. Social media is extremely anti-Israel and now everyone knows it
    - zabana 3y ago
      > Social media is extremely anti-Israel and now everyone knows it People generally don't hold ethnic cleansing in high esteem.
      - throwaway2990 3y ago
        There’s no ethic cleansing unless you follow the propaganda that Palestine has existed for 1000s of years and Israel stole all the land and has been attacking everyone around it.
- PurpleRamen 3y ago
  First weeks I used TikTok, I got all kind of anti-anything, from the local right to local left, from global KKK to whatever global hippies are called today. Any propaganda to burn whichever evil empires in the creators corner of the world exist. Guess it had some hard time to find my political niche and started with too little information about me. On Instagram on the other side, I've never seen any serious amount of political messages, but they all want to sell me merch, cat-toys and nerd-toys from any point of the spectrum. Likely be because they have more information about me. And these days, TikTok is pretty much like Instagram, all cats and nerds and the occasional call for blood from those plebs who break their spaghetti. So I don't think it's that any platform is full of this or that, but it very much depends on what the platforms think what might be interesting for you, and the rest you just don't see until it really floods the platform hard.

TikTok is not much different than Instagram and Youtube Shorts in the western world. That it is heavily moderated in China would not surprise me either. But i wouldn't call that an "agenda"

blackhaz 3y ago

What else is it then? An instrument in the hands of a dictatorship.

darkwater 3y ago
Let's ban schools because they can be used by dictatorships to inoculate their propaganda?
- edgyquant 3y ago
  Yea we should ban schools ran by foreign dictators on American soil. Any more obvious questions?
  - darkwater 3y ago
    Are you saying TikTok is inoculating Chinese propaganda in Americans' minds? Are you really saying that?
    - local_crmdgeon 3y ago
      I’ve seen it, there’s a ton of evidence of it

throwaway2990 3y ago

They are much much different. TikTok is full of anti America propaganda. It rarely gets removed. Anything anti China doesn’t last long. Instagram has hardly any anti China or anti America propaganda. And it’s certainly not recommended to you within minutes of using the app for the first time. Opened TikTok in Taiwan and almost immediately got anti America propaganda. Blaming America for covid.

zabana 3y ago
The opposite is absolutely true. Try and question "America's greatest ally ever" and their policies and see how long you last on these platforms. When critiquing china, remember that you're essentially looking in the mirror.
- edgyquant 3y ago
  That’s funny because this argument has been exposed as complete bullshit in the last month. You should find a better example to try and be dishonest about nowadays. Social media is extremely anti-Israel and now everyone knows it
  - zabana 3y ago
    > Social media is extremely anti-Israel and now everyone knows it People generally don't hold ethnic cleansing in high esteem.
    - throwaway2990 3y ago
      There’s no ethic cleansing unless you follow the propaganda that Palestine has existed for 1000s of years and Israel stole all the land and has been attacking everyone around it.
PurpleRamen 3y ago
First weeks I used TikTok, I got all kind of anti-anything, from the local right to local left, from global KKK to whatever global hippies are called today. Any propaganda to burn whichever evil empires in the creators corner of the world exist. Guess it had some hard time to find my political niche and started with too little information about me. On Instagram on the other side, I've never seen any serious amount of political messages, but they all want to sell me merch, cat-toys and nerd-toys from any point of the spectrum. Likely be because they have more information about me. And these days, TikTok is pretty much like Instagram, all cats and nerds and the occasional call for blood from those plebs who break their spaghetti. So I don't think it's that any platform is full of this or that, but it very much depends on what the platforms think what might be interesting for you, and the rest you just don't see until it really floods the platform hard.