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> Content about Tiananmen Square and Tibet gets filtered out. Content about the United States government rolling through protesters in armored vehicles, killing
by elektronika 9mo ago
> Content about Tiananmen Square and Tibet gets filtered out. Content about the United States government rolling through protesters in armored vehicles, killing people in Venezuela with bombs, and threatening Greenland, straight to top of feed.
There's also the degree of relevance. Tiananmen was over a quarter of a century ago. The USA is killing protestors, bombing Venezuela, threatening Greenland now.
- kurthr 9mo agoThe persecution of Uighurs continues apace. Even if it is not allowed to be called genocide on TikTok. The political elements to this are pretty obvious, but conflating two terrible Minneapolis ICE killings in 3 weeks to the horror that occurred in Xinjiang is beyond the pale. While we may go down the authoritarian path with a Clown King, we're still at least 10-15 years behind China. https://www.rfa.org/english/uyghur/2024/11/05/uyghur-tiktok-censors-abroad/ https://www.rfa.org/english/uyghur/2024/11/05/uyghur-tiktok-...
- elektronika 9mo agoRadio Free Asia is USA funded propaganda.
- atomic_reed 9mo ago[dead]
- kurthr 9mo agoBut since that's all been defunded by DOGE then by your own argument, it doesn't count any more. Ignoring history is a good way to repeat it, just because it didn't happen this year. Do you remember the last Vietnam War? Oh no, not the one you're thinking of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War Several hundred thousand Chinese troops invaded Vietnam with 500 tanks in 1979.
- urmackchually2 9mo agoIn response to Vietnam invading Cambodia... Yeah... That's not exactly imperialist aggression is it?
- UltraSane 9mo agoVietnam invaded Cambodia in December 1978 primarily to stop relentless border incursions, attacks on villages, and massacres of Vietnamese civilians by the Khmer Rouge regime. This led to the end of Khmer Rouge, which was a VERY GOOD THING. China was HELPING the Khmer Rouge, so yes, it actually was rather "imperialist aggressiony". I haven't encountered a Khmer Rouge apologist in a long time.
- direwolf20 9mo agoInterestingly the same excuse Russia used for invading Donetsk and Lunhansk
- UltraSane 9mo agoThe thing about Russia is they lie ALL THE TIME. The Khmer Rouge was actively conducting cross-border raids into Vietnam killing civilians. Ukraine was not attacking Russian territory. The Khmer Rouge killed 1.5-2 million Cambodians (roughly 25% of the population) in a well-documented genocide. Vietnam ended a genocide and withdrew most forces within a decade. Russia annexed territory and continues occupation. The situations are not comparable at all.
- kurthr 9mo agoThat's not how the Vietnamese see it.
- inetknght 9mo agoThat doesn't mean it should be ignored. That doesn't make it normal.
- kurthr 9mo agoNo, it is not normal, but conflating the detention and forced sterilization of millions for over a decade to the current administration's violently unconstitutional over reach is still a bit much. Though, neither are really served by TikTok.
- tamarinddreams 9mo agoChina had the less sophisticated tools of groups like the Stasi in that era.. 3 weeks of terror was not much more in retrospect. Americans who are currently protesting should consider if the apparatus will be subtly manipulating their environment not just in the next months or years but from now on with high quality data it will have perfectly categorized mined and will re-mine.