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Mitt Romney Admits Push to Ban TikTok Is Aimed at Censoring the Palestinian Genocide. (www.commondreams.org)

submitted 11 months ago by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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[–] psyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.com 91 points 11 months ago (3 children)

This is the real reason for the ban.

"National security" just translates to "public opinion of the war(s)"

[–] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Its more simplified to "lack of ability to control the narrative" and also "My billionaire masters cant turn a profit from it"

[–] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

It has diverted traffic and money away from sites such as Twitter, FB and Amazon after TT videos called them out and offered alternatives or avoiding completely/anticonsumerism perspectives.

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world -4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And yet they were trying to ban it years before any of that happened...

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

The last time the US was not involved in a war was 1998