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TikTok Says It’s Not Censoring ‘Free Palestine’ Comments. Users See Something Different
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It's no secret that Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL was recorded and heard by many saying "We don't have a left / right problem. We have a young / old problem. We have a TikTok problem" It's pretty clear that TikTok finally caved in to the ADL's demands, just like other centralized social media companies.
I don't think Jonathon Greenblatt feeling that TikTok is anti-semitic means that it is, or forms the basis for the US government wanting to ban it.
You do have a point that this could be a brand new development, to curry favor with Trump, as basically every other big media platform is doing at the same time.
He and others in the ADL weaponized accusations of antisemitism to shut down pro Palestine speech as much as they possibly could. I live a town away from Harvard University and he was seen meeting with Harvard administration often and preceding every act of repression against student activists including immediately before they shut down their encampment and prevented student activists from graduating instead of listening to them.
When a lobbiest says they want a platform shut down and then it eventually gets shut down it's hard for me to dismiss that as mere coincidence. Given their influence on platforms like Meta, who wants to avoid an FTC investigation, I'm just not surprised. Any corporate platform's primary goal is profit.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/antisemitism-conspiracy-theories-tiktok/678088/
It's behind a paywall so I can't read it. I never said "the Jews" were taking it away. I mentioned one group that is a known lobbiest group with examples. I love Jewish people and the ADL and does not speak for all of them in any way. This is the "weaponization" I'm referring to . You are free to disagree but it's just lazy logic to call it a "conspiracy theory" just because you do.
Okay. It is far better researched and more well-spoken than I feel like being, to address what you are saying.
And so on.
One thing I can agree, the censorship and repression has nothing to do with China. The article erroneously uses the term "Semitic" btw and many of the students I was referring to are Jewish. This says nothing new. Just opinions, which are not facts. It's no conspiracty theory that Meta's board has many former Israeli intelligence agents on it since you've mentioned them. Perhaps you should do a bit more research. And so on.
It's not just Greenblatt. It's also Mitt Romney and lots of other ~~people~~ politicians.
https://newrepublic.com/post/181327/mitt-romney-congress-ban-tiktok-israel-gaza