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Not rightwing. Israeli. Larry Ellison is the biggest donor to the IDF. Tiktok was banned in the US when the youth started to turn against Israel. This has everything to do with propping up Israel's cratering reputation with the youth.

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The vote to ban Tiktok (for spurious "Chinese data theft" reasons) was pretty much the only bill to have bipartisan support in the last decade. Goes to show how deeply the lobbying influence is in US politics.

Have you read TikTok's ToS? The claims are not spurious. The amount of data collected for each user is extraordinary. It is enlightening that we are still even talking about it.

The TT "ban" went into effect in January, and wasn't enforced. Their data practices don't seem all that dangerous if they've been able to continue them unemcumbered for more than a year after the bill went to a vote.

The great western data collection business VS the ebil chinese spying machine

I mean the reality is that going forward it simply won't be permissable to let foreign governments freely influence your youth with whatever content algorithm they please. It's even open knowledge that China itself doesn't allow TikTok to influence their own children like they allow it to influence American ones. As influencing physchology and personal Ai algorithms get more advanced you simply can't let it be controlled by foreign, hostile powers. This was inevitable, lobbying aside, as long as TikTok has suge huge market share especially with children.

It'll only be permissible for foreign governments to influence your media moguls to influence your youth on their behalf?

Netanyahu is bragging about how they bought TikTok lol. This isn't about China, and it definitely isn't about keeping foreign governments from influencing our youth. Its the opposite! China was the pretext to get you to swallow another foreign government controlling TikTok.

Meta, speaking about censoring anti-zionist content: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2209316259518773&vanity=Mi...

https://www.facebook.com/reel/66556493302222

Benjamin Netanyahu was a speaker at this conference too: https://youtu.be/lPueSBhoryc

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