American gamers who spam Taiwan/Tiananmen square in chat are in shambles
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2026
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TBH the only surprising thing here is that outside the USA users can still search it. Apparently the "US-based" TikTok doesn't need to follow their own rules outside the USA, almost like ByteDance is still the majority owner and the algorithm is still in Beijing.
Why are you still using Tik-Tok.
You know it's compromised, yet still try to make it work.
Who are you talking too? Not likely to find many here.
not our users, but our families do. Luckily, my wife realized it was finally serious.
They knew it was a Chinese info-stealing tool before and didn't care. But they weren't afraid of the Chinese administration coming to their house to threaten them.
Well sure, you didn't think Trump "saved" it did you. He bought it.
he didn't buy anything, he stole it :)
Suicide didn't Epstein himself.
God, you Yankees are sure winning at everything
Hang on, TikTok is Chinese and controlled by the CCP and PLA. That's why I do not use the crap.
They transferred control to the US.
Starting to think centralizing the internet into platforms owned by far-right billionaires might have been a bad idea.
Bring back usenet.
ByteDance is still the majority owner, btw. Beijing server is still online, as well.
Haha next you'll be telling me that allowing broadband cartels in the US to collude and conspire against consumers was a bad idea
Absolutely. Especially when it comes to social media.
"We have to fight with the weapons that apply to the battlefields in which we’re engaged. And the most important ones are on social media. And the most important purchase that is going on right now is TikTok. Number one. Number one." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in September.
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So the reason why Tik Tok was not allowed to run as a Chinese company, was not to prevent Chinese propaganda but to allow for US propaganda
Yes, that is literally the point.
Same reason grok is allowed to generate CSAM but not unflattering images of Trump.
There is an old joke about how incredibly good American propaganda was. What we are seeing now is more of a ~~breakdown~~ shift in the propaganda machine. It is becoming less about forming a universal belief. They have realized this is no longer possible. So, it's not about hiding the lies. It's about preventing the most people from seeing the truth.
Anyway, here is the joke.
A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet up in a bar for a friendly drink
"I have to admit, I'm always so impressed by Soviet propaganda.
You really know how to get people worked up," the CIA agent says.
"Thank you," the KGB says. "We do our best but truly, it's nothing compared to American propaganda.
Your people believe everything your state media tells them."
The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. "Thank you friend, but you must be confused...
There's no propaganda in America."
Yes, they literally explicitly said this. There also wasnt even "Chinese propaganda", the just didn't care to censor pro-palestine content and that's unacceptable to the US.
There absolutely was loads of Chinese propaganda. That you think there wasn't is evidence that it worked too. Tiktok was a major win for China in PR and soft power.
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I have had every single comment of these two photos removed and threatened with a ban. They are actively trying to suppress this.
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If you haven't deleted your tiktok account by now, then I don't know what to tell you.
Good thing I never had a TikTok account.
Same
I downloaded tiktok when it first came out scrolled through it for a while. Realized there was no porn on it and then uninstalled it.
Porn is life and life is porn. Seriously. Your conception was an act of pornography and some people find giving birth to be a turn on.
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Epstein+Trump... just checking something
Doesn't look like anything to me.
Of course not, the CCP does not want to stir up their population.
Can't say I'm sympathetic to anyone who uses TikTok, that platform has been a vacuum of people's intelligence and attention span for years. You reap what you sow.
Unfortunately everyone else also reaps in this case.
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How is this NOT government censorship? How is this NOT a direct violation of everyone's freedom of speech rights???
edit: yes I Know tikkk tokkk is a private company, but they are doing the censorship at the direction of, and for the benefit of the white house.
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Who saw that coming
Newest inductee to the Dead App Club.
The fascists will descend upon it. It will turn to garbage. The only value in staying will be to study what incels are like close up.
As an older millennial who was around when all this social media bullshit started, I've accepted that attending app funerals is a normal part of life and there's always a new app to move on to. Not a big deal.
I spit on TikToks grave. It lived as a weapon and will die as one, rightfully so it should die young.
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On the positive side, the fediverse has just been given a new use case for a lot of disaffected TikTok users.
On the negative side...
People who have lived half a decade on algorithm-fed short-form video feeds are not looking to replace it with text message boards and still image memes.
They're going to stay exactly where they are and just have the nutrient mix of the IV adjusted.
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