NO WE DON’T ALLOW SATIRE ON THE INTERNET YOUR BANNED
Plot twist: you’re dead serious
How the hell are you posting I banned you. HACKER HACKER HACKER
(he’s better.)
The true OGs
HACK THE PLANET
While I would find an American tiktok ban funny, this satire/article gives me mixed feelings because the “tiktok ban legislation” they’re trying to pass, has some real dystopic shit hidden in it, behind the only slightly dystopic veil of “banning the Chinese”.
While China is definitely a problem to be dealt with, I think it’s become the new “Think of the children!”
As a Canadian, I’m much more concerned with America than China. You guys are much more of a problem for the average earthling.
It’s true. Our house is rotting and the Boomers won’t let anyone but fascists take over.
It was never the propagandized version of America you see in media. It’s always been the shady organization you think it is. From the genocide of the native Americans to the willingness to supply weapons of war to a country committing genocide in broad daylight, today.
“These commie Timtoks will drag the kids to hell where they’ll burn with the D&D dungeon masters and the people who hand out free hallucinogens to children!”
-Republican Suburban Hellscape
It’s not about the videos. It’s about the owners having strong ties to the government. Who wants information. If it was the videos they wouldn’t care.
If we can agree that this is a problem, then all American social media companies should be banned as well, which I’m not entirely opposed to. What people are taking issue with is that this level of logic is only applied against China, and not American companies, which are guilty of the same crimes.
Are you taking about TikTok or about X/Meta/Google?
Tbf I think those are all banned/heavily censored to some degree in China. Google maps doesn’t work in China for example.
But when the United States starts doing the same thing it does weaken the narrative that China is some authoritarian hell scape unless people are willing to accept the United States is as well.
Look at it from outside China and the US and try to find the difference.
More than that, it seems to validate the Chinese philosophy that censorship is the right way to combat foreign influence. The enforcement mechanisms are pretty obvious follow-ons of the premise, which is why we’ve mostly attempted to avoid this kind of thing. In my mind the marketplace of ideas fallout is the real problem.
genuinely believed this was real for a moment so good satire nice
The Chaser are real good at blurring the lines enough to question if it’s real.
Darg. “Excited to here…” I think someone left a voicemail on my homophone.
American (congress) will ban Tiktok # Americans will be banned from Tiktok
The title made it sound the other way around as if Tiktok is banning americans.
It’s effectively the same
They were so excited “to here” lol
Modern journalism standards
Lemmy.ml in shambles
I like my fellow American Lemmings and wouldn’t want to see you banned. Some love from Europe ♥️
I would not mind if they banned it here in Europe, too.
If it does, it’ll only get replaced with something super similar.
Tiktok got banned in India years ago. For anyone rejoicing, it doesn’t matter, many other apps full the gap unfortunately the forefront being instagram reels which basically started right after tiktok got banned here
Meta is behind the lobbying that’s going to get it banned here.
American here- I totally sympathize.
Why is this called satire?
2024 meta is the complete collapse between fiction and reality.
You need to be Usamerican to be able to believe this isn’t real.
I don’t know any social networks right now other than Lemmy, but this sounds kind of thrilling.
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