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TikTok faces calls for ban amid claims of anti-Israel ‘indoctrination’ (www.aljazeera.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Wanderer@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (16 children)

Trump tried to ban Tiktok because it was Chinese owned and it got rejected. But now it's getting banned, why?

Is it actually because it is showing bad things Israel has done or has something else happened? I'm genuinely out of the loop and confused.

[–] echo64@lemmy.world 35 points 8 months ago (9 children)

it's not owned and controlled by Americans. This makes American billionaires unhappy, and the liked of Zuckerberg would be very happy for the removal of comepetiton.
America has a sinophobia problem, I know a lot of Americans here don't see it, and get mad if you bring it up, but from the outside looking in, it's very obvious.
Policy makers in America seem scared of young people being politically motivated, and a lot of that is happening via tiktok. It stopped the red wave, it's now impacting democratic polling, they're losing control.

[–] ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

These points are all absolutely correct, and generally follow a trend of protectionism sweeping across the globe, but there’s also a genuine concern about how Tiktok shapes public POV based on CCP decisions(for example, suppressing content about the excessive Covid lockdown, the Uyghur and Tibetan genocide, and suppression of Hui Muslims, Hong Kong and other minorities in China).

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

And now it will only be US state department approved propaganda from now on. Losing TikTok isn’t going to be a win I think many people think it will be. It could be, but the policies that will enable it are made with bad intentions in mind so it won’t be.

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 6 points 8 months ago

That content doesn't seem suppressed, I've seen most of those things on TikTok. Some people were actively trying to see if that was true, and while it's hard to know if it's being penalised by the algorithm or not, it seemed fine.

If anything I report stuff all the time and it's just like Facebook and other social media, the reports basically go to /dev/null. Like, legitimate banworthy content like Elon Musk crypto scams and porn, both examples of things to report when you go to the reporting page.

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