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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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[–] psyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.com 109 points 2 days 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] m532@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 day ago

There are boatloads of wars usa tries to hide all the time

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] ghost_of_faso3@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Kosovo and Iraq want a word, the US has literally never not been involved in a war in some capacity.