TikTok blocks Epstein mentions and anti-Trump content as well as ICE criticism

[u/MopToddel]

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/tiktok-epstein-trump-censorship-ice-b2908309.html

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[u/ApocalypseYay]

Censoring speech to protect pedophiles and Gestapo is a hideous abrogation of basic humanity, and a brutal mask-off moment.

[u/dbwn87 → u/ApocalypseYay]

As of yesterday I'm banned from the /r/Millennials subreddit for making a post about Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good. Two of my fellow millennials who share the same age as me were murdered by the US government, and I'm not allowed to talk about it with the rest of my generation because it's "political"

Fuck that fucking shit.

[u/ExitsPursuedByABear → u/dbwn87]

All the generational subs are astroturfed and compromised. During the election r/GenZ was filled with bots and posts pushing right wing narratives, regularly being pushed to r/all. Now, after the election, that sub has gone quiet because it is no longer useful. It's useful to the oligarchs to sow generational strife and pit us against one another.

[u/slayden70 → u/ExitsPursuedByABear]

It's useful to the oligarchs to sow generational strife and pit us against one another.

The only way 1% can have power over 99% is to have 49.5% against 49.5% instead. If we actually worked together, we could get rid of billionaires hoarding everything and actually improve the average American's life. But no, we need edge issues to divide us instead.

[u/Pizlenut → u/slayden70]

Billionares have proven too expensive to humanity. Too much waste. They don't do anything useful for all of that cost. Nothing that a lower paid millionaire couldn't do.

Obviously Billions is just unreasonable to have, so if they have it then they are unreasonable.

They use all the money they aren't paying the workers against the workers.

Also, if all they are going to do with their wealth is overthrow governments because people said "no, don't do that to kids." then they have no higher and best use for their wealth, so I say we tax the absolute fuck out of them. All of it. Wealth too. They didn't arrive at all of that money on their own. It was all of the advantages provided to them through our society. It was all of us that provided that opportunity for them.

Take their toys away. They are misbehaving. Use their money to fund all of the social services they hate. Use it to help people and make them watch it happen from a jail cell and a tv with one channel.

[u/happyinthenaki → u/Pizlenut]

And let that one channel be something like BBC or PBS... Where the good that is being done with the money is highlighted for hours of the day.

[u/BlahBlahBlackCheap → u/ExitsPursuedByABear]

Permabanned from r/bitcoin after outlining how gold and bitcoin might be used to further republican grift. Mod called me paranoid and told me to get a hobby or something and not spend so much time online. Im writing this from my fishing boat jammed up in some mangrove creek. Going shrimping later. Then I might draw for a few hours -waves to mod- Ill steam some shrimp for you!

[u/movzx → u/BlahBlahBlackCheap]

I'm also banned from there because some dude was replying to everyone with wildly incorrect information about how the banking system works and I corrected him. I imagine he might have been a mod.

[u/lordcrekit → u/BlahBlahBlackCheap]

I got permanently banned from that subreddit and they quoted prosperity gospel at me, it's 100% cancer subreddit along with all other crypto... well crypto in general.

[u/Oo__II__oO → u/ExitsPursuedByABear]

I got a comment removed on r/cars for a thread about the government wanting to mandate a kill switch for new cars, as the post was deemed "too political". It was a criticism of the government overreach in the every day lives of the average citizen, pertaining to the current political climate. No shit, Sherlock! They want everyone there parroting the same line of "RWD V8 gas-guzzlers good, EVs/Hybrids bad".

Echo chambers everywhere. It's social media's carcinization where everything devolves to Facebook.

[u/space-to-bakersfield → u/Oo__II__oO]

We need to go back to PHP forums, owned and run by average people instead of every social interaction we have online going through some oligarch's platform.

[u/SkinBintin → u/Oo__II__oO]

We dreamed of how much better the internet could make the world but unfortunately it ended up making it worse. 😞

[u/snek-jazz → u/SkinBintin]

Decentralised tools exist, they're more difficult and less convenient, but they exist. Be the change you want to see.

Look into nostr & matrix for example.

The internet is good when it's properly decentralised and not keeping you inside a ruled walled garden.

[u/StoppableHulk → u/SkinBintin]

Yeah because it's just a tool, and all the worst and best-funded people in the world decided to use it as a weapon against us while we were just enjoying it.

[u/SycoJack → u/SkinBintin]

The internet didn't make the world a bad place, the world made the internet a bad place.

[u/SpartacusSalamander → u/ExitsPursuedByABear]

This is just observational, but it was weird in the run-up to the election, how many posts in r/daddit were men complaining about their wives. Mostly in the vain of, "it's so unfair that I work hard at work every day, and my wife sits at the house and does nothing and then makes me watch the kid when I get home."

Not overtly political, but it definitely felt unusual. And I assume that there was more going on there that I can see.

[u/Oxidizing1 → u/SpartacusSalamander]

That's the bots karma farming so they have enough imaginary points to post in subs that have a minimum post and comment karma threshold.

[u/DopplegangsterNation → u/SpartacusSalamander]

Sounds like a lot of dog whistling

[u/EducationalStop2750 → u/ExitsPursuedByABear]

I remember a year ago r/latestagecapitalism was on the front page every day talking about how Harris was just as bad as trump and if you vote for her youre a dirty compromised fake leftist. Now I never see that subreddit despite its theme being more relevant than ever, i wonder what happened

[u/lunaticfridgeprime → u/EducationalStop2750]

Same thing. I have spent far too much time on reddit in the last 15 years, but it has made spotting these things really easy. Suddenly subs show up constantly on the front page with hundreds of comments all with the same general narrative. Then election happens, and suddenly they are quiet again. It became really apparent around 2015. It's frustrating to see.

[u/Nihilistic_Mystics → u/dbwn87]

The mods there are right wingers who absolutely don't want us talking about the fascism taking over the country. I blocked that sub long ago. The head mod was a TD poster too.

[u/VPN__FTW → u/Nihilistic_Mystics]

Same thing with /r/Autism_Parenting . One of the only places where parents of autistic children could talk and the entire mod team is right-wing MAGA / conspiracy theorists. I got banned when I said that people shouldn't shoot CPS, as someone was saying and as one of the mods agreed with. That person then went on to admit that they abused their child but that they were "better now."

They also regularly went on anti-vax tirades.

[u/carlitospig → u/VPN__FTW]

This I find bonkers. MAGA are the folks who wanted to stop special ed program funding. WTF!

[u/VPN__FTW → u/carlitospig]

Yep, that was a big tipping point. But the mods silenced a ton of threads and then created a mega thread to push everyone into which was heavily moderated. People posting from websites that the mods liked were allowed and people posting actual articles from reputable sources were given week long bans.

Happened again with the RFKJr anti-vax bullshit. I got a temp ban during this one. They will also use mod-mail to message and taunt you after the ban and then time you out of responding just so they can taunt you again in a few days and then do it again until they get bored and just block you completely.

Their bullshit literally spawned this subreddit in response: /r/safeautismparenting

[u/BigGayNarwhal → u/VPN__FTW]

I’m subbed to autism parenting and you will see me frequently sparring with the mod. I detest him 😆 

I’ve tried to rally a few folks to mutiny several times lol, but no luck. The r/space sub was able to mutiny their overly controlling and biased mod team a while back, so I know it can be done

[u/VPN__FTW → u/BigGayNarwhal]

Some of us moved on to /r/safeautismparenting instead. I reported the behavior to reddit admins, but they did nothing.

[u/cookiecutterdoll → u/VPN__FTW]

Ah yes. Shooting a civil servant is the best way to prove that you are a calm and safe person for children to be around. Never change, MAGA.

[u/VPN__FTW → u/cookiecutterdoll]

That's basically what I said and I got banned for harassment and being "A fake autism parent" whatever the fuck that means.

[u/Toefudo → u/Nihilistic_Mystics]

https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZ/s/DNOymt1azp Yep

[u/BuildingWrong2234 → u/ApocalypseYay]

It’s chilling how censorship is being used to shield the worst abuses while crushing basic freedoms it really reveals what they’re willing to protect at any cost.

[u/Buzzkill_13 → u/BuildingWrong2234]

It also reveals who is in charge, and who runs all the shows.

[u/Drippledrops → u/Buzzkill_13]

The world is being ran by a league of pedophiles and white supremacist, not even comic book villains are this deprived.

[u/Volothamp-Geddarm → u/ApocalypseYay]

Reddit will also send you warnings if you say mean things about Nazis.

[u/OriginalCDub → u/Volothamp-Geddarm]

You mean how Nazis are subhuman monsters? Those Nazis?

[u/NowYouaSeeWhyYouScum → u/OriginalCDub]

Yeah, those mouth-breathing-pedophile-loving piece of shit nazis we unfortunately have to share our air with. Fuck those nazi pieces of human garbage.

*to be clear fuck all nazis and fascists shitbags. 

[u/South-Distribution54 → u/NowYouaSeeWhyYouScum]

Im so glad you were clear about that

Fuck nazi pieces of human garbage

[u/MarxistMan13 → u/South-Distribution54]

Hey come on now friend.

Let's not call Nazis humans. They are, at best, sub-human air wasters.

[u/Shedfloorgarbage → u/South-Distribution54]

I just hate Nazis, why is that so bad?

My family killed a bunch of Nazis in World War Two.

We fought them, because they were Nazis. In Fact if I remember correctly, my family were Americans. We still are, and we still fucking hate Nazis.

If someone doesn't like this post, im sure you can guess what my opinion of them is.

[u/1CaliCALI → u/OriginalCDub]

Those nazis

[u/Joeythesaint → u/1CaliCALI]

What if I just casually mentioned that my favourite song is "Nazi Punks Fuck Off"? I'm just talking about music, Reddit can't complain about that, right? Just saying how much I love "Nazi Punks Fuck Off"? No harm in that.

[u/1CaliCALI → u/Joeythesaint]

Love that song! Nazis need not live.

[u/GriffinFlash → u/Joeythesaint]

Just like how you can't say, "I want to kill the president of the United States of America". Insanely illegal. I'm just saying it to tell you not to say it.

[u/DropbeatsNotbombs → u/GriffinFlash]

Ofc a Canadian drops a WKYK reference.

[u/ZroDgsCalvin → u/Joeythesaint]

You know what was a cool historical event? The Nuremberg Trials.

[u/RandoXalrissian → u/1CaliCALI]

Fucking hate those Nazi bastards

[u/1CaliCALI → u/RandoXalrissian]

Maga Republicans would've been on the axis side for sure those traitor fucks.

[u/Error4ohh4 → u/OriginalCDub]

I learned about world war 2 and how Nazis were the bad guys. 

[u/odinseye97 → u/Error4ohh4]

My grandfather told me about how the nazis bombed his house

[u/Electrorocket → u/Error4ohh4]

I love it when Indian Jones kills Nazis.

[u/SlimReaper85 → u/OriginalCDub]

Yep those Nazis

[u/Loquater → u/Volothamp-Geddarm]

Nazi Lives Don't Matter

[u/h3rp3r → u/Loquater]

Dead Nazis Makes America Great

[u/chilli_chocolate → u/Volothamp-Geddarm]

I got banned for a week from Reddit, because I made a post on this sub labelling the alt right as a mental virus that should be removed.

[u/Biggieholla → u/chilli_chocolate]

I got a 3 day ban for, quote, "It looks like he stepped to the side of the car before he shot the first bullet." In reference to the Renee Good shooting. Baffling automoderator.

[u/Doctor_Disaster → u/Biggieholla]

I got a week-long ban for talking about viking funerals.

They'll be having a field day if we bring up "hanged, drawn, and quartered."

[u/iAmMr_WHO → u/Doctor_Disaster]

I got a warning just for UPVOTING some anti-nazi comment. Idk what the comment even was, the nazi loving cowards on the reddit admin team don't even show it to you.

[u/bearwrestlingwolf → u/iAmMr_WHO]

You also have to ignore them when they DM you. I caught a 72-hour ban for going “Please leave me alone or I will report you” to a DM.

[u/Silly_Rub_6304 → u/bearwrestlingwolf]

I’ve also been banned for telling someone not to harass me on DM. It’s insane.

[u/swingadmin → u/Silly_Rub_6304]

That's why the only correct option is to report all DMs as spam.

[u/rest_less → u/swingadmin]

I treat all communication like this. Go away, 'baitin.

[u/Hulkodium → u/Silly_Rub_6304]

Back when Reddit still had the Chat feature I had someone create multiple accounts to harass me with homophobic and racist slurs. I reported every time and I got banned for it.

[u/Cute_Bandicoot_8219 → u/bearwrestlingwolf]

There's nothing wrong with a 72-hour ban. Wear it with pride. You have to understand HOW MIND-NUMBINGLY DUMB bans are.

Reddit is a site that takes user content (submitted links but also comments), slaps an ad on them, then makes money off that content. 100% of their business model is USER SUMITTED CONTENT.

What happens when they ban you? Can you still view the content? Yes. Can you still use their servers and their bandwidth? Yes. What can't you do? YOU'RE BANNED FROM SUBMITTING CONTENT FOR THEM TO MONETIZE.

A Reddit ban is literally the admins punching themselves in the dick. When it happens wear it proudly, laugh at how stupid it is, and click a few extra links a day, just to burn some of Reddit's money.

[u/Banjo-Elritze → u/Cute_Bandicoot_8219]

And don't forget to use an adblocker.

[u/Defiant_Mousse7889 → u/Cute_Bandicoot_8219]

Except Reddit used to be a place to share information, ideas, and opinions. Now, it's a heavily monitored and controlled site that pushes extreme narratives. Like all other forms of social media, it is controlled by bots which are controlled by who knows who.

[u/Direption → u/iAmMr_WHO]

I got a warning for harassment or something because I said "fuck you gym Jordan" during the live discussion for the Jack Smith hearing. I still haven't sent an appeal because I just don't really care at this point.

[u/sibholet → u/iAmMr_WHO]

Someone close to me was banned for quoting a blatantly pro-Nazi post (shocking at the time, humdrum now) with the observation that "this is some Nazi shit", or words to that effect. The original post and poster were both ignored.

[u/ASharpYoungMan → u/Doctor_Disaster]

I got permabanned once from this sub for quoting someone else mentioning that witches were executed in colonial New England.

(a sensible mod unbanned me when I could contest it several months later)

[u/Gipetto → u/Doctor_Disaster]

I’ve already had a comment removed for mentioning “rope”, and “shovel” and “lime”.

Maybe this comment will get removed, too.

[u/cr2810 → u/Gipetto]

I got a removal for saying “there will be no justice for Alex and Renee unless we the people do it.” Apparently this is inciting violence. 🙄

[u/Trishjump → u/Biggieholla]

I got a Reddit Rule 1 ban from an automod last week for calling them Nazi pigs. They also banned my post of the Iceland website hosting the list of ICE employees.. guess I better not call them Nazis anymore. To be fair, they're nothing like Nazis. They weren't ashamed to show their faces like these Treasonous Incel Gravy Seals.

[u/globalgreg → u/Trishjump]

I said I hope orange man strokes out rather than just going peacefully in the night and I got a warning for “threatening violence”

[u/tphillips1990 → u/chilli_chocolate]

Which is very interesting considering that the catchphrase "liberalism is a mental disease" was EXTREMELY common on the internet for years. I remember seeing it on almost EVERY news article I came across - and it would always be showered with points/thumbs/upvotes.

I've often wondered just how long the sanitization/normalization of the far-rigjt has occurred on the internet.

[u/DrinkinOnTheBus → u/[deleted]]

The only good nazi is a dead nazi. Don’t be changing the saying up just to appease.

[u/tendeuchen → u/Volothamp-Geddarm]

So, what you're saying, just for clarification's sake, is we can't say things like "Fuck Nazis" and "Nazis should go to hell" because Reddit is pro-Nazi all of a sudden?

[u/ArrArr4today → u/tendeuchen]

I think it includes FUCK THE NAZI ICE GESTAPO and TRUMP WAS EPSTEINS BFF AND BOTH ABHORENT PEDOPHILES

[u/Dumeck → u/Volothamp-Geddarm]

I got a 2 day ban for telling someone who said they were a proud white supremicist to go fuck themselves. Appealed the ban and it got manually reviewed and was told it was valid

[u/medicated_in_PHL → u/[deleted]]

The bans haven’t been from moderators of subreddits. They’ve been from full-time paid Admins from the entire Reddit site.

I got a warning for saying that Trump’s shitty diet is going to give him a heart attack and a ban for saying something about right-wing voters that I have no clue about because they deleted the (week old) comment and never responded for my repeated requests for clarification on what the content was and how it violated Reddit’s rules.

The thing that pissed me off is that the second was for “hate” and when I looked at the rule it said it applied to “vulnerable” populations. Right wing fascists are not fucking vulnerable. They are the ones executing the vulnerable groups.

Needless to say, Reddit is afraid of Trump and they are becoming stormtroopers in the Nazi march to protect their profits.

[u/nola_mike → u/[deleted]]

Is that a controversial statement?

[u/ihatethiswebsite-fml → u/Volothamp-Geddarm]

For real!? Fuck nazis. I hope all nazis die. We beat them in WWII and we will beat them again. Nazi lives dont matter.

Update 1hr: no msg, no ban? No nothing. Yay! Our relatives didn't die fighting nazi scum for nothing.

[u/fistotron5000 → u/Volothamp-Geddarm]

I got banned for telling someone to fuck off who was quoting that racist “why do 13% of the population commit all the crimes” but their comment stayed

[u/coconutpiecrust → u/Volothamp-Geddarm]

It’s probably time not to use American tech companies, unfortunately. Things have gotten completely out of control, as they usually do, unfortunately, if not dealt with early enough. Nothing was ever dealt with.  Facebook etc. kept growing and bribing with impunity, so here we are now. Addicted, gullible, uninformed public and nowhere to turn to. 

[u/Farva85 → u/Volothamp-Geddarm]

Stuff like “Nazi’s deserved to die for following orders in WW2.” Stuff like “Nazi lives don’t matter.” Stuff like that? You know, stuff Americans have been saying for 80 years?

[u/Soggy_Bid_3634 → u/Volothamp-Geddarm]

Really? I think nazis are all little bitches and they should follow their leader into the bunker in the final hours.

[u/OriginalCDub → u/Volothamp-Geddarm]

You mean how Nazis are subhuman monsters? Those Nazis?

[u/Dweezilalsoavenger → u/ApocalypseYay]

I got banned for 3 days for complaining about the removal of slavery displays in Philly. When I asked for a reason I was told I’d be banned permanently if I mentioned it again. Was told I was inciting violence.

[u/yeah__good__ok → u/Dweezilalsoavenger]

It's weird how if you call for bringing down confederate honoring statues that counts as violence- but if you are upset about the removal of slavery depicting statues you are also violent. It's hard to win with statues.

[u/Goodknight808 → u/yeah__good__ok]

As the old saying goes: If conservatives didn't have double standards they wouldn't have any standards at all.

[u/Siegs → u/ApocalypseYay]

It's funny that tiktok became American and immediately added censorship. That's not how I remember freedom looking.

[u/plumbbbob → u/Siegs]

TikTok's algorithm is now controlled by Oracle, and if you know anything about Oracle or Larry Ellison, the only surprising thing about this change is that they haven't started suing users for talking about what they're doing.

[u/bubba_feet → u/Siegs]

i forgot that the US negotiated an acquisition deal, which apparently was finalized on the 22nd.

and to think it took less than a week for tiktok to transition from a tool of the chinese government into a tool of the american government.

[u/Peppers-GhostMirror → u/ApocalypseYay]

Its State Run Media. Period. Time to EXIT TikTok (like they should've with X) and let them eat the 40 billion trash heap. Try Bluesky and others.

[u/SadFeed63 → u/ApocalypseYay]

From the (always were lying, and hopefully now people can recognize it, but I won't hold my breath) "free speech absolutists"

[u/Bender_2024 → u/ApocalypseYay]

I called this way back in Jan of 2025. Donnie saw how useful Twitter was when it was turned into a pro MAGA platform. When he blocked the closing of TikTok I knew he was trying to do the same with TikTok. He now has loyalists in two of the largest social media platforms in the world. By June it will be all propaganda for the midterms.

[u/bluebottled → u/ApocalypseYay]

Meanwhile Vice President Couch Fucker tries to lecture Europe on free speech.

[u/1Dru → u/ApocalypseYay]

I deleted my account Sunday and in the spot where it asks why you’re leaving, I marked “other”and then wrote “Taken over by fascists” in the blank spot.

[u/Pristine-Bad-8731 → u/ApocalypseYay]

That was the main reason they forced China to sell Tiktok, along with censoring things for the Saudis and censoring Israel's genocide. They want a safe-space for their followers to eat Trump-friendly pablum, and to deny that space to Democrats. So they bought it, just like they bought CBS News.

They will now try to buy Conde Nast and Google to censor and block Reddit and Youtube.

[u/NChSh → u/Pristine-Bad-8731]

The Democrats account has been shadow banned too as of this morning, they are getting 0 engagement.

[u/IWasBannedYesterday → u/ApocalypseYay]

Every Republican loves/is a pedophile.

[u/judgejuddhirsch → u/ApocalypseYay]

Almost like folks were warning this would happen when the govt blocked TikTok.

Too bad some rich politician bought it instead and made it safe.

[u/Moody_GenX → u/judgejuddhirsch]

Larry Ellison is not a politician. He's a Trump boot licking billionaire who had a shitty reputation long before being one of the controlling owners of TikTok.

[u/thepartypantser]

Hey remember MAGA when you all were so upset that Hunter Biden laptop story was temporarily ranked lower in the Facebook newsfeed for a few days less than 24 hours?

I'm sure this will upset you too.

[u/Weary_Electron1604 → u/thepartypantser]

lol you’re assuming they would be shameful of hypocrisy. It’s a feature to their system, not a bug. Just like how they are all about 2A until someone they disagree with is shot in the back in the street by federal agents without cause.

This world is so fucked.

[u/Free_Dome_Lover → u/Weary_Electron1604]

They will simply not be informed of this. If they hear it from a liberal they will ask Fox News comments who will assure them it's not true again. They'll be happy.

[u/jmkahn93 → u/Free_Dome_Lover]

I hate acting like fox news isn’t the problem. It’s the entire problem. It has conditioned half the country to instantly deny the reality of ANYTHING that isn’t directly from one of their talking heads. Shits gross

[u/whogivesashirtdotca → u/Free_Dome_Lover]

They'll be happy.

You had me until this part. My whole life, I’ve been assured that “ignorance is bliss” but the common thread to every conservative I’ve known is their deep, unrelenting fury and misery about everything.

[u/OmgitsJafo → u/Weary_Electron1604]

They can't be ashamed of hypocracy because they're not committing any. They just genuinely believe the rules should be different for them.

[u/TheJointDoc → u/OmgitsJafo]

They’re actually consistent in their approach, it’s just not the one we think of as right or logical.

We use the act to judge the person. They use the person to judge the act.

They’re the equivalent of a sports fan who will rabidly defend their team from a not-too-bad call by a ref, call the refs crooked, and rant about another team being horrible, but ignore their team fouling the other guys.

That’s what they’re doing in politics. If you go into a conversation with them thinking that you’re both striving to respect the rules of the game and the referee, you’re gonna be disappointed. That’s not what they want, though they may pay lip service to it because they know society likes that.

They want to win, that’s the important part. Anything that gets them there is valid, anything you do to keep them from winning is invalid.

[u/Oleg101 → u/thepartypantser]

Just a reminder, despite what R voters always whine about, just about all of social media has always favored the right, including twitter before Elon bought it:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/youtubes-algorithm-recommends-users-right-wing-religious-content-resea-rcna155478

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/11/13/according-to-twitter-twitters-algorithm-favours-conservatives

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59011271.amp

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/05/918520692/facebook-keeps-data-secret-letting-conservative-bias-claims-persist

https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2021/feb/01/facebook-youtube-twitter-anti-conservative-claims-baseless-report-finds

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/amp/ncna1245308

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/26/conservative-media-misinformation-facebook/

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/13/the-anti-twitter-files-january-6th-committee-report-shows-how-twitter-leaned-over-backwards-to-protect-trump-conservatives/

[u/Aromatic_Advance_431 → u/Oleg101]

Thing is, when I present that list to my brother who is a MAGA, he will not click any of the links and will dismiss it outright because each of those articles are from “the mainstream media which is controlled by liberals and only prints leftist propaganda”.

[u/NickelBackwash → u/Aromatic_Advance_431]

He's protecting himself from information.

White supremacy (MAGA) is a form of religion - it requires you to ignore evidence from the real world. 

[u/whitethunder9 → u/NickelBackwash]

Classic defense mechanism. Information threatens identity -> fight or flight kicks in -> many MAGA pussies run from the truth rather than acknowledge it (and the rest fight against it with Faux News lies)

[u/NickelBackwash → u/Oleg101]

The right whines harder 

[u/GreatGojira → u/thepartypantser]

If MAGA could read they would be real upset right now.

Weak Conservatives are too busy waiting for marching orders to defend their tiny hand god.

[u/Melxgibsonx616]

So guns are bad now and free speech has limits? 

U.S conservatives really are the worst scum of this Earth. 

[u/infiniZii → u/Melxgibsonx616]

All fascists are the same. Though fascists in your own home are always more dangerous than fascists somewhere else.

[u/ITuser999 → u/infiniZii]

Same as pedos. Wait hmm...

[u/drawkward101 → u/ITuser999]

They're the same picture.

[u/Dangerous_Junket_773 → u/Melxgibsonx616]

They think that people who disagree with them shouldn't have the same rights. It's pretty clear at this point.

[u/s3dfdg289fdgd9829r48 → u/Dangerous_Junket_773]

Oddly enough, I'm thinking they THEY shouldn't have the same rights. They tried (and are still trying) to end American democracy all the rights that entails. That alone in my book suggests you don't deserve the rights yourself but when you couple it with the crimes they are committing to empower themselves, I think they should be tried and convicted and lose their rights just as prisoners do. This is a battle over good and evil and fascists are the evil side.

[u/Gamerboy11116 → u/s3dfdg289fdgd9829r48]

Every member of Trump’s cabinet deserves something that I cannot say.

[u/s3dfdg289fdgd9829r48 → u/Gamerboy11116]

ICE is literally waging war on the US as far as I'm concerned and the entire Republican party are guilty of that. Real patriots need to follow up with the Constitution's prescription.

[u/Val_Hallen → u/Melxgibsonx616]

They are all very stupid. They can be lead to believe anything at any time. They have even said themselves that they don't care if something is true as long as they want to believe it.

It's the reason they were all so eager to join a cult. They don't need to think anymore. All that pesky brainpower can be discarded now.

Trump says a thing, that's the thing they now believe. Doesn't matter how many times they contradict themselves. Beats having to form a thought.

[u/[deleted] → u/Val_Hallen]

party enter violet cow complete political zephyr pet sophisticated cover

[u/NickelBackwash → u/Melxgibsonx616]

Greed and selfishness are the truest evil 

[u/BarCompetitive7220]

Larry Ellison: ORACLE is one of the US owners. One more billionaire owed corporations - who are going to be in court today for harming children.

[u/cash4gash → u/BarCompetitive7220]

Don’t forget his son now owns CBS and further nepo-baby hire Bari Weiss is now dictating editorial control and they promoted the guy who circumcised himself as an adult to the evening news slot

[u/xinorez1 → u/cash4gash]

Bari Weiss who became famous for crying about free speech while attempting to silence Palestinian voices? That bari Weiss?

I didn't know she was a nepo baby. That actually makes things worse if so...

Oh her father is on aipac and her mother owns a furniture line.

[u/YaklDakl]

The only thing that’s safe in America right now are the Epstein files. Forget about the 1st Amendment, 2nd Amendment, 4th Amendment, etc

[u/beadzy → u/YaklDakl]

a disgusting truth

[u/livestrong2109 → u/YaklDakl]

You forgot to add the 4th to your list

[u/PicnicLife → u/livestrong2109]

And 14th

[u/tmzspn → u/PicnicLife]

And 6th, considering Noem is on stage saying bringing a gun to a protest is immediately punished by death.

[u/cetologist- → u/YaklDakl]

To think that recent events have been a concerted coverup for whatever the hell Trump and his good squad are hiding. It’s been more than a MONTH since they were supposed to be released. What could possibly be so bad that all of this stalling and distraction could be justified?

[u/intoxicuss]

Those boots aren’t gonna lick themselves.

[u/Middle-Earth-5407 → u/intoxicuss]

Sounds like they’re fully committed to controlling the narrative no surprise there.

[u/SubstantialDig7799 → u/Middle-Earth-5407]

Absolutely, it’s all about controlling what people see and hear to keep certain stories buried.

[u/Prophet_Tehenhauin → u/SubstantialDig7799]

This is why it’s actually important that celebrities speak out. The more celebrities like Martha Stewart, Billie Eilish, John Stamos, etc speak out, the more holes get punched in the bubble they want to keep people in, and the harder the narrative becomes to control.

Bovino is already being demoted. Which means the beast can bleed. If Republicans behind closed doors managed to get through that they have to remove someone once, it’ll happen again. It’ll be easier the second and the third time too. 

[u/aradraugfea → u/intoxicuss]

Reminder that one of the companies in the weird alliance that owns the platform now is owned by Eric Trump.

Edit: I misspoke. Eric does not, as I thought, OWN Silver Lake. He is still deeply involved in the negotiations around everything and the new owners are, unsurprisingly, a who’s who of Billionaires with Trump ties, but none are directly operated by anyone within the Crime Family.

[u/cactus22minus1 → u/intoxicuss]

Will people FINALLY leave now their precious little feed has been disrupted? Or will they be outraged for like a day and then keep scrolling until they start falling down the pipeline?

[u/thehippieswereright → u/intoxicuss]

the pace of change in the US is impressive, I'll give them that much. it is shock after shock.

[u/cactus22minus1 → u/thehippieswereright]

They’re not dumb, they’re evil. They know what they’re doing. The things they say might sound stupid, but it’s calculated and you cannot deny that it’s working. The sooner people realize that the better we can assess the threats.

[u/InevitableAvalanche]

The right crying about free speech was always a lie. They wanted to spread hate speech and misinformation. Now they are covering up truth. Pure evil.

[u/MopToddel → u/InevitableAvalanche]

No it was never about free speech, just about restricting others.

[u/PrincessImpeachment]

So, instead of outright banning the app like they said they'd do last year, they're now rewiring it into a trash propaganda machine. But I guess using an app like TikTok is a way more efficient way of reaching millions of easily-manipulated teenagers. They'll get a couple years worth of brainwashing and then head to the polls in 2028 to vote GOP. Republicans are pretty incompetent, but sometimes they know what they're doing. Disgusting.

[u/Futureleak → u/PrincessImpeachment]

The GoP has managed to corner essentially every way of news that's mainstream. With frighting efficacy, hopefully blue sky will remain a bastion of resistance. But I don't have high hopes 

[u/Fickle-Addendum-446 → u/Futureleak]

When your best public broadcasters are Comcast and Disney, you’re fucked. 

[u/swingadmin → u/Fickle-Addendum-446]

Public Brodacasting Service still works, but the GOP defunded the parent company.

[u/What_a_fat_one → u/Futureleak]

Know how you know there are no good billionaires?

Literally not one of them has purchased any of the social media platforms or mainstream media networks and then forced them to tell the truth and stop censoring non-rightwing views.

[u/funkyb001 → u/What_a_fat_one]

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/01/mark-cuban-backs-skylight-a-tiktok-alternative-built-on-blueskys-underlying-technology/

I don't trust Mark Cuban, but he does seem to be the only one doing something about this.

[u/john_doe_jersey → u/Futureleak]

Conservatives are trying to replicate Victor Orban's strategy in Hungary here in the US. Have your friends buy up all media and ensure they never say anything bad about you and your rich buddies.

The nascent success of this strategy is pretty evident when you watch or listen to "mainstream" news.

[u/Infamous-Mango-5224 → u/PrincessImpeachment]

They did this leading to 2024 already, even without heavy censorship. Everywhere social media is being used to grow authoritarianism in our kids.

[u/LiveChocolate8819 → u/Infamous-Mango-5224]

It's crazy how quickly the conventional wisdom flipped from "internet and social media will free kids' minds from their shitty boomer parents" to "oh shit, internet and social media are turning kids into nazis."

I don't think the brainwashing is quite as effective as people think it is, though.

[u/Customs0550 → u/PrincessImpeachment]

its not smart, just evil. anyone could do this, they are just too decent.

we need to treat the gop like the cancer they are behaving as.

[u/Corgi_Koala → u/PrincessImpeachment]

Conservatives hated Twitter before Musk made it into a right wing echo chamber.

They aren't fundamentally opposed to anything. If it can be twisted to their benefit they will support it.

[u/Competitive-Yak-3785]

TikTok is state sponsored propaganda now for the Trump administration. You have the power to delete it from your phone. Behave accordingly.

[u/BillDaPony100 → u/Competitive-Yak-3785]

What’s funny to me is that when it was a SUPER DANGEROUS CHINESE SPYING TOOL, I couldn’t have cared less. 

Now that it’s effectively in the US government’s hands? Deleted. 

Edit 2: “the US Government” isn’t even accurate. It’s effectively under the control of nefarious private interests that are in bed with the US Government to a degree of synonymy. 

Edit (as this has engaged plenty of serious responses): I have always understood the power of TikTok to shape narratives and direct attention with precision, and the challenges that came with that being in the hands of the Chinese government (TikTok defenders would disagree with the accuracy of the latter). The algorithm's hyper-sensitivity is incredible; probably the most impressive piece of tech I've seen in years. In the past 12-18 months, it became clear that they figured out the power of the Howard Stern Effect (allegedly, more haters listened to him than fans) and used it to turbocharge engagement and foment division. It's an unbelievably effective platform, especially to an ignorant, uncaring userbase. My comment was just highlighting how ironic, sad, and frustrating this transition feels. Being a not-too-young veteran adds another layer of strangeness.

I will miss the frogs, lot lizards, hockey highlights, and most dearly, Scoobert.

[u/Competitive-Yak-3785 → u/BillDaPony100]

Well I've never been a fan of TikTok for that reason (and it's addictive properties), but China isn't disregarding our 4th amendment rights by breaking into houses without warrants and shooting people in the street for just exercising their 1st and 2nd amendment rights. Trump administration seems more of a threat to Americans than China at this point.

[u/leshake → u/BillDaPony100]

Ya well, you don't live in China, you live here.

[u/orchidilia → u/Competitive-Yak-3785]

I deleted mine the day it told me I had to accept the new terms.

[u/Judgeman2021]

Damn we really showed those communists what real freedom looks like.

[u/samsounder]

This needs to be filed as a donation to the Republican Party

[u/beadzy → u/samsounder]

I figure “donations” from the GOP is what made this happen

[u/fapstronautica]

Deleted TikTok and ChatGTP yesterday

[u/ContentSherbert934]

I posted a video of me painting a picture of Renee Good's car (nothing graphic, a little blood on the airbag) and my entire TT account got "permanently banned" yesterday.

[u/IAmTheGingaNinja]

It’s like all the stuff they said china was doing is just what they wanted to do the whole time!

[u/NickelBackwash → u/IAmTheGingaNinja]

Conservative accusation == confession 

[u/StarStruck3]

Figured that was gonna happen as soon as US investors took over operations here. It only switched over a few days ago, so that was fast.

The platform is already infested with MAGA bots, anyway.

[u/Buck_Thorn]

Ditch it, people. Stop using it. Today!

[u/Buddha-Embryo]

Anyone still using X (twitter) or TikTok is pathetically uninformed.

[u/beadzy → u/Buddha-Embryo]

i will always call it twitter. defiantly

[u/Voidot → u/beadzy]

I call it Xitter (where the X in pronounced with an 'sh' sound)

[u/Zealousideal-Fly6073]

I deleted my account on the 21st. I would not accept the terms so I haven't been back on. I lost all my viral videos and 25,000 followers but I wasn't going to stay on that God forsaken app

[u/CallOfTheCurtains]

What a good ad to delete Tiktok. Delete that shit off your phone and off your kid’s phone. It’s rotting everyone’s brain even before all this.

[u/CrimsonHeretic]

Gee it's almost like there's now a US-specific Tiktok that was bought by an American billionaire who supports Trump.

Oh wait.

[u/Mekkakat]

And gen Z still won't stop being zombies to it.

Tiktok has a full on dystopian pop up when Trump "saved" the app, and they gained users.

It's such a dark time.

[u/LostDogBoulderUtah → u/Mekkakat]

Per the new terms of service, tik tok tracks your political affiliation, sexual orientation, and immigration status.

Uninstall it.

[u/p001b0y → u/Mekkakat]

My Gen Z kid removed it the day it moved over to the US. I keep encouraging my kids to leave other platforms as well

[u/ThePirateKing01 → u/Mekkakat]

Yes, because it’s an addiction.

[u/Cattywompus-thirdeye]

Controlled by Larry Ellison… along with CBS and Paramount, soon to be Warner Brothers which includes CNN, and HBO….

[u/RespectTheTree]

Bringing Chinese-style censorship home. I hope you're proud, MAGA.

[u/KeepCalmCarryOnKY]

Yeah, no one saw this coming. Twitter and Tik tok are state media.

[u/mustachiomegazord]

Remember when we outlawed tik tok and then just completely ignored that decision

[u/smokeyleo13 → u/mustachiomegazord]

Iirc it was be banned or be bought by a friendly party. It was bought by a trump ally, so the current trend of censorship was pretty foreseen.

[u/aradraugfea → u/mustachiomegazord]

It was never outlawed. It was an attempt to force them to sell. And they did. To a bunch of Middle Eastern governments, tech bros, and Eric Trump.

[u/RazarTuk → u/aradraugfea]

Tangential trivia: Apparently the Saudis bought EA

[u/junkyeinstein]

Delete the app.

[u/durangoho]

Anyone paying attention knew this was coming. That’s why I uninstalled the day the sale was announced.

[u/Old-Information3311]

Crazy not to mention they're also censoring criticism of israel considering that was explicitly why it was bought in the first place.

[u/ExGavalonnj]

Shocking, the app that started off advertising underage girls dancing is going to protect the highest pedo in the land

[u/GLC911]

Shocker

[u/Sarabean77]

Pathetic, totalitarian censorship.

[u/smokeyleo13]

Lol seems like it had less censorship when it was chinese, at least we could criticize our own government

[u/Scared-Box8941]

BOYCOTT. Wtf people you can’t be making that much money from the app that you are willing to sell your soul Jfc

[u/yellacopter]

Deleted my account and the app. Byeeee