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With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’
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Thats just not true, otherwise we wouldn't be welcoming a South African who illegally immigrated to the US and has some serious international conflicts-of-interests with US interests control a major social media platform.
Hardly a strawman! We have a major social media company in the US, that is controlled by a foreigner, for their own, and for foreign interests, and impacting our elections with measureable results.
So, obviously, this move wasn't done to prevent such a thing from happening, just to prevent certain countries from doing it.
Our current admin has done nothing to stop it, and therefore allowing it.
Why are all the US Gov accounts STILL on Twitter?
That aint a "gotya", that's proof it has nothing to do with preventing foreign interests from influencing anything. Because we have a foreign interest influencing it already: Musk.
So, we have other large social media networks, that are rife with foreign influence, that already influence the US's internal politics... But yet, banning tiktok was to prevent it from happening?
Its either true, or its not. And in this case, its not true. The sole reason was to keep China specifically, and it only arose because people in the US were learning about shit that US supports. Which the US doesn't want.
Except, they're not trying to stop foreign influence. They are trying to stop one country, and they only took notice because of news that is damning to the US.
And... with all your excuses... How come nothing is being done still? Its not new that Elon is a fascist. And it's not new that Elon is in bed with several foreign interests that are hostile to the US... In fact, its at least 6 years old news at this point.
But tiktok. home of the Pro-Palestinian content is what is being gone after now. Not the Fascists running Twitter, or Facebook... Wonder why that is? Could it be their political donations?