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[-] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago

im baffled by the blase response by lemmy users to government overreach

[-] brendansimms@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Same! It is definitively unconstitutional and the us gov just pushed it through anyway (with even supreme court backing it up?!) Shit is crazy, and yet I see a lot of 'no big loss' type comments on it.

[-] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

The SCOTUS decision was wild too, because it was a fucking 9-0 vote. The decision was unanimous. That’s a word that’s virtually never used to describe the SCOTUS or any kind of government vote. That unanimous decision made it perfectly clear that the government knows something we don’t, and that TikTok had them fucking terrified. My bet is on the genocide being much worse than even TikTok was showing, but TikTok was the only place you could see anything about it that didn’t have a massive “Israel is just helping them root out terrorists” spin.

[-] dx1@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That unanimous decision made it perfectly clear that the government knows something we don’t,

Yeah, they know who pays their checks.

My bet is on the genocide being much worse than even TikTok was showing,

TikTok showed them incinerating an entire civilization. Not sure what you saw on there.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

I wonder how much of all this is just the government realizing that social media is the next world-changing weapon.

Why dig out your nukes or your fighter jets to destroy the enemy when you can instead make them like you?

I didn't bother following the court case, what were they arguing, freedom of the press?

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Right? 170 million people just get censored by the government.

[-] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

170 million people

Where's that number coming from. Maybe you mean the 165 billion installs , but that's not active users and double counts people installing on multiple devices. Tik tok has 50 million dau Of those maybe 10% is actually "speaking" and creating content that the other 90% consume so around 5 million people.

And those 5 million people aren't silenced, they can still go on to one of multiple apps that provide the same service and allows them to get there message out. He'll they could come on to the fediverse and post blatant ccp propaganda and no one will do anything.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago
[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

You think silencing half the entire population of the country is boomer lib shit?

Ok, boomer.

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