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

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This is the real reason for the ban.

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 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"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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