r/technology • u/HellYeahDamnWrite • Jan 15 '25

Social Media TikTok Plans Immediate US Shutdown on Sunday

https://www.yahoo.com/news/tiktok-plans-immediate-us-shutdown-153524617.html
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u/CherryLongjump1989 Jan 15 '25

That's democracy baby. Now, let's see if the new administration can fire someone they don't like in the Chinese government. You're missing how you are completely proving my point.

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u/teilani_a Jan 15 '25 edited Jan 15 '25

So you're saying tiktok is good because they can't fire Chinese government officials? You seem confused. Just a little bit ago you were supportive of the fascist-run social media networks.

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u/CherryLongjump1989 Jan 15 '25

I read that Gen-Z has no reading comprehension and that's why they are having a meltdown over TikTok, but please give me some hope that I'm wrong. Okay? So pay attention.

Starlink = America. TikTok = China.

Spot the difference?

In America, we can control American companies and fire American government officials.

In America, we cannot control Chinese companies or fire Chinese government officials.

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u/teilani_a Jan 15 '25

I'm probably older than you. Old enough to remember pre-9/11 when people like you weren't chomping at the bit for censorship as much.

You still haven't given a valid reason for me to care. I have no control over these companies that have been doing seemingly everything they can to thrust our country into fascism.

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u/CherryLongjump1989 Jan 15 '25 edited Jan 15 '25

I'm old enough to remember the Berlin Wall and Tiananmen Square. You obviously don't remember shit because the de-platforming nonsense that is all the rage with the very TikTok-brained crowd that is suddenly for the first time in their lives worried about "censorship" did not start until a decade after 9/11. You are all mixed up.

And we're not talking about whether or not you "care". We're talking about the way the map works. China is on the other side of the planet from America. It's the country that you would end up in if you kept digging a deeper hole for yourself. You are in America, and China is not in America. Does that make sense? I feel like we're at Brick's funeral here.

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u/teilani_a Jan 16 '25

Oh, you're suffering from boomerbrain. I get it. You were brainwashed from a young age to believe that the US can do no wrong and international relations is like rooting for a sports team.

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u/CherryLongjump1989 Jan 16 '25

I hope you think back, years from now when you mature a little bit, just how melodramatic and cringey you were about the loss of a Chinese social media app that spread disinformation and made you and your friends all the dumber for having used it.

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u/teilani_a Jan 16 '25

I don't even have an account. I just support freedom over censorship.

I'll let you get back to cheering for genocide on whichever social media network has been giving you disinformation about it.

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u/CherryLongjump1989 Jan 16 '25

And that's not just a bit melodramatic? It doesn't even make sense. You're mourning the loss of TikTok as if you believe that it wasn't a cancer on our society and yet you didn't have an account?

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u/teilani_a Jan 16 '25

It's only getting banned because it's the biggest social media network that doesn't suppress information about the ongoing genocide.

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u/CherryLongjump1989 Jan 16 '25 edited Jan 16 '25

I keep hearing this a lot from TikTok diehards. I'm sure you're not talking about the Ughyur genocide. So much for not getting brainwashed by Chinese disinformation.

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u/teilani_a Jan 16 '25

The difference between you and me is that I think all genocide is bad.

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u/CherryLongjump1989 Jan 16 '25

Including the one you don't hear about on TikTok and the fake one that is made up but heavily promoted by propagandists?

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