Kontextmaschine

26th March 2023

Post reblogged from YOU'RE ALL TRAPPED IN HERE WITH ME with 1,773 notes

Reminder that Zuckerberg actively lobbied with Republican PR firms to make TikTok illegal because he couldn’t compete with it.
Reminder that for all it’s faults TikTok has brought tons of awareness to important issues that barely got any coverage until they blew up on TikTok, and more that still barely got any mainstream coverage even after they did.
Reminder that TikTok has become the largest and easiest place for people to come together and organize, and has 150 million active users in the US.
Reminder that congress, especially conservatives, stand to gain a lot by banning it, because it means less people will hear about all the problematic (fascist) shit they’re trying to pass, such as the 300+ anti-trans bills, the bills seeking to make abortion a felony punishable by death, or how they’re trying to remove the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). They also get to ‘look tough’ against China.
Reminder that claims of concerns over data privacy are bullshit, because China could literally just buy our data if they wanted it. Tech companies just like and including Facebook collect and sell our data all the time. China wouldn’t need to build an app to get it.
Reminder that banning TikTok sets a precedent that Congress could come for literally any other social media they deem 'a threat’ and ban that too. Yes, even your personal favorite one.
Reminder that we should care about this and instead of saying “Good Riddance TikTok!” we should be actively trying to stop this violation of free speech and stop handing more power to fascists just because we personally don’t like a thing or think it’s cringe. This is bigger than your personal tastes.
Please sign this letter from the ACLU to your members of Congress and urge them to listen.
There’s also a hearing this Thursday on March 23rd at 10am EST in DC where the TikTok CEO will be testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The hearing will be open to the public and will also be live streamed online.
I don’t care if you hate TikTok or think it’s “cringe.” If you all actually hate Facebook and fascists as much as you say you do, then you won’t stand for letting them win this fight to ban it.

See this is what I was talking about re: Zoomers whining not to ban TikTok completely misreading how deep in a hole they are with everyone else.

“Fooey to your geopolitical concerns, what’s important is that the kinda snot-nosed kids who go off about 'fascism’ can use social media to bend the discourse around whatever they’re on about!”

NONE OF THE GROWN-UPS IN CHARGE OF POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE AND THE DIRECTION OF THE CULTURE UNDERSTAND THAT AS A GOOD THING

If you are the type who goes for that there is a bipartisan desire for you to go away, “this measure will also limit our ability to inject social mediated youth radicalism into the culture” is understood as a BENEFIT

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