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[–] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 69 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Great Firewall of Burgerland

Internet border wall

[–] BrezhnevsEyebrows@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago

:squidward-window:

[–] itsPina@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago

perfectly normal country where shit like this just gets tacked on to giant fopo bills

[–] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

liberalism

No longer will our children suffer from the evil chinese brainwashing machine!

[–] BigBoyKarlLiebknecht@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It’s the only social media I use because the algorithm is so precise, it’s intensely trained on cat videos and possum videos. It doesn’t serve me anything else at this point, it’s a thing of beauty

Fuck you Joe, I want cat and possum videos thurston possum-mama

[–] Gorb@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

The algo is kinda insane cos it calibrates so fast and knows what i want at that point in time like it can read my fucking mind. Youtube either shows me videos that are already in my sub feed, videos I've already watched or fascist content

[–] JCreazy@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm sure it serves you ads

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What it doesn't serve is right-wing garbage when you feed it literally anything, unlike YouTube and Twitter

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

TikTok, this site, tumblr and a few reddit-logo subreddits are my only social media for this very reason.

I can’t go two seconds anywhere else without getting a video saying that people like deserve to die just because it would be funny if we died. At least on these sites that number is slightly less.

Nazis have the entire world as one big circlejerk for their ideas. All I want is one small circlejerk for my unpopular but correct ideas.

tiktok vanced think-mark

[–] JayTwo@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago

yeonmi-park
In North Korea the media must serve the interests of the ruling class.
If it doesn't it gets shut down under false pretenses.

[–] Mokey@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

i have never used tiktok but this is really shocking. i want to leave this country asap

[–] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

US invades US after US announces nationalization of key industry

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

ah shit i knew i should have put all my money into VPN stocks

[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

Biden regime has ruled that media platform requires itself to be attached to a state apparatus for citizens to be allowed to use it.

[–] callTheQuestion@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

they don't have a problem with tik tok. the concern is the chinese ownership of tik tok. all that bad privacy stuff is no issue as long as the owners are "friends".

[–] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

It's still pending legal challenge ofc, but from everything I've read they're only going to ban it from appearing on app stores, which should mean that anyone not on an Apple device can still install the app, and anyone with any device should still be able to access the website.

So I'm expecting TikTok to continue to be very popular with Americans even after they're no longer "officially" supported.

[–] Vingst@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

I think this will be overturned in the courts, but who knows what SCOTUS will decide.

[–] Dickey_Butts@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Do twitter next

[–] BakedBeanEnjoyer@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Stopped clock etc etc.

[–] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

And yet truth social is still up and running. If trump is double TrumPutLer, I don't see why his media platform should be allowed to continue.