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In principle I agree with you, in practice it seems the only reason TikTok legislation is passing the House is because Israel thinks everyone on TikTok hates th

by r00fus 3y ago

In principle I agree with you, in practice it seems the only reason TikTok legislation is passing the House is because Israel thinks everyone on TikTok hates them (reality - most people in the US disagree with genocide).

alephnerd 3y ago
TikTok's change in ownership has been discussed for years. The current action occured when TikTok pushed users to call Congressional Members through anti-patterns within the app [0] Not everything is about Israel-Palestine smh. [0] - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/business/tiktok-phone-calls-congress.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/business/tiktok-phone-cal...
- cj 3y ago
  The TikTok ban issue dates back to at least 2020. I vividly recall because I owned a ton of Fastly stock which cratered when the former administration was trying to ban TikTok, leading ByteDance to move away from Fastly as their CDN. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bytedance-pulls-most-tiktok-traffic-214127487.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bytedance-pulls-most-tiktok-t...
  - alephnerd 3y ago
    Yep. There are a lot of low effort commenters on HN now. If you take a look at most of the commenters talking about Israel or Palestine on this thread, their creation date appears to be around 2020-2022.
    - op00to 3y ago
      unfortunately this particular commenter seems to have joined in 2011. not saying you're wrong about low effort commenters.
      - alephnerd 3y ago
        Haha yea. Tbh I've grown tired of yelling to the wind. Every single time I mention this change I get downvoted to oblivion, yet it is very clearly happening.
        op00to 3y ago
        It happens everywhere. So many of my homes on the internet have turned to poop. Oh well, maybe I’ll read a book.
kikokikokiko 3y ago
To be fair, most of the world (and not only most of Americans) want both sides to lose. Israel is just an invader nation that used power and money to take ownership of land that belonged to another group of people, less than 80 years ago. And now, 3 generations later, the former owners of this land have so much anger and resentment towards the acts of violence and tyranny they suffered on the hands of those invaders, that they themselves became a group of despicable psychopaths. Gen Z simply has new avenues to get informed and to form their own opinion than the legacy media of the 20th century, and now it's hard to impose a narrative that dismisses how much blame does Israel deserves on this subject.
Longlius 3y ago
>reality - most people in the US disagree with genocide I'd like to see some sources for a majority of Americans even agreeing that it's a genocide in the first place.

by r00fus 3y ago

alephnerd 3y ago

TikTok's change in ownership has been discussed for years. The current action occured when TikTok pushed users to call Congressional Members through anti-patterns within the app [0] Not everything is about Israel-Palestine smh. [0] - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/business/tiktok-phone-calls-congress.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/business/tiktok-phone-cal...

cj 3y ago
The TikTok ban issue dates back to at least 2020. I vividly recall because I owned a ton of Fastly stock which cratered when the former administration was trying to ban TikTok, leading ByteDance to move away from Fastly as their CDN. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bytedance-pulls-most-tiktok-traffic-214127487.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bytedance-pulls-most-tiktok-t...
- alephnerd 3y ago
  Yep. There are a lot of low effort commenters on HN now. If you take a look at most of the commenters talking about Israel or Palestine on this thread, their creation date appears to be around 2020-2022.
  - op00to 3y ago
    unfortunately this particular commenter seems to have joined in 2011. not saying you're wrong about low effort commenters.
    - alephnerd 3y ago
      Haha yea. Tbh I've grown tired of yelling to the wind. Every single time I mention this change I get downvoted to oblivion, yet it is very clearly happening.
      - op00to 3y ago
        It happens everywhere. So many of my homes on the internet have turned to poop. Oh well, maybe I’ll read a book.

kikokikokiko 3y ago

To be fair, most of the world (and not only most of Americans) want both sides to lose. Israel is just an invader nation that used power and money to take ownership of land that belonged to another group of people, less than 80 years ago. And now, 3 generations later, the former owners of this land have so much anger and resentment towards the acts of violence and tyranny they suffered on the hands of those invaders, that they themselves became a group of despicable psychopaths. Gen Z simply has new avenues to get informed and to form their own opinion than the legacy media of the 20th century, and now it's hard to impose a narrative that dismisses how much blame does Israel deserves on this subject.

Longlius 3y ago

>reality - most people in the US disagree with genocide I'd like to see some sources for a majority of Americans even agreeing that it's a genocide in the first place.