Trump is probably going to remove the TikTok ban shortly after his inauguration and secure a chunk of the youth vote.
Lol…literally lmao. Enjoy the propaganda👍
Saved this from a different post, it belongs here.
Hey, just so we’re clear, the reason the ban went 9-0 in the Supreme Court is because of serious espionage risks based on the Chinese government REQUIRING every company based there to provide ANY information gathered about users at ANY time with NO need for probable cause or search warrants. You can read it in the opinion.
You know how when you find out an American company just hands over shit to the cops without a warrant? And you get really pissed off because that’s bullshit and goes against the rule of law and the whole point of things like probable cause and search warrants and the fourth amendment?
Yeah, The Chinese government doesn’t fucking care about any of that ever for anyone. Even if you turn off the most egregious of the tik tok access requirements (think real hard about why an app needs the ability to see all your messages; that’s not something that you should have turn off ever because it should not exist), the Chinese government can still, at any point, get every single thing you have shared for no other reason than that they want to see it.
Because it’s a totalitarian government who doesn’t give a dry fart about your rights.
It’s not arbitrary to refuse to let a totalitarian government have easy access to millions of citizens’ information, and if you think I’m being a fear-mongering asshole, think about how RedNote is suddenly showing the Westerners all sorts of queer content when RedNote generally disallows it entirely because the Chinese government is notoriously anti-queer. It’s a fucking ploy by the government to convince Americans that the actual and real issues with them (the whole totalitarian thing with the human rights violations, rewriting of their history, and disappearing people) are all actually propaganda from their own government so they won’t trust their own government.
That is what Trump is backing. That is what the Chinese government is doing. That is what the “Oh, we’re back and isn’t it awful to stop free speech” card is taking part in. All of it is bad.
Ppl love to say “we are living in Orwell’s 1984!!!” about everything but the shift from Trump starting the idea of a tiktok ban to “Trump is saving tiktok!” is theeee most egregious example of doublethink I’ve ever seen in real life like it’s embarrassing lmao
Seeing friends and peers be like “this is the first time I’m rooting for Trump idc I just want tiktok back” makes me feel like this
NOOOOOO YOU FOOLS DON’T YOU KNOW BIG BROTHER WANTS TO MAKE THE BRAIN PERFECT BEFORE THEY BLOW IT OUT. DON’T GIVE IN PLEASE REMEMBER LITERALLY ANYTHING TRUE AND REAL
this whole tiktok thing is just the chocolate rations bit from 1984
[image description: six gifs, each a short loop featuring different Star Trek characters from various series, all played by Black actors (all playing human characters except where otherwise noted), and overlaid with parts of a quotation (by Avery Brooks, who played the role of Benjamin Sisko), as follows:
ST:TOS’s Lt. Nyota Uhura, smiling and speaking to someone out of frame; text “brown children”;
ST:TNG’s Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge and the El-Aurian Guinan seated across from one another in a booth in Ten-Forward; text “must be able”;
ST:DS9’s Capt. Benjamin Sisko, seated in the Defiant’s command chair, lacing his fingers together contemplatively; text “to participate”;
ST:VOY’s Vulcan Lt. Tuvok, looking quizzically at someone off-screen; text “in”;
ST:ENT’s Ensign Travis Mayweather, climbing upside-down along a bulkhead in zero-g; text “contemporary”;
ST:DSC’s Cmdr. Michael Burnham, smiling tearfully at something or someone behind the camera position; text “mythology”;
quotation in full reads “brown children must be able to participate in contemporary mythology”.
“I can’t tell if OP is doing a wildly bad faith reading of a sentiment I’m familiar with or if there’s a corner of this website that is completely insane in a way that I am not personally privy to” is such a classic tumblr feeling isn’t it. Like it really could be anything
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