POV: It's January 19th

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Android will push notifications for news articles that you may be "interested" in. I think it used to be called Google Now.

Congress is concerned about theoretical propaganda, but it's a reality in nearly every major news outlet and tech companies, but zero concern when it fits a certain narrative.

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When you can’t disprove the content, attack the source.

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You're splitting hairs here for the sake of winning an argument. There's no practical difference between cruelty and torture to the people suffering it.

And as far as genocide goes, you're moving the goal posts here, but if we're playing that game, the native Americans might have something to say about that.

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Thankfully, that doesn't apply to us using the app because the Chinese government doesn't govern us.

Meanwhile, the US government absolutely influences the flow of information on US hosted social media sites, so uh, let's be upset at all of them regardless of location!

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Huh. Curious. I've been using Google Now, and after that, its successor, for a long time. Rarely do I see any political propaganda. Just sane reporting. I'm based on Northern Europe though.

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There's no reasonable way for a single person to point out every single flaw in a conspiratorial website. The whole article is a gish-gallop; so much misinformation that even if I disproved 90% of the primary points, people would still latch on to the 10% that I hadn't had time to disprove, and say, see?, they were right! (That's assuming that they even accept counterclaims as being sufficient in the first place.)

Paying attention to your sources and not using bad ones is one of the first, most basic principles of media literacy. Failing to adhere to this basic principle is precisely how you get Q-anon.

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There very much is difference between cruelty and torture, same as with 1st and 3rd degree burns and denying that is awful.

The native Americans are not being genocided today, Uygurs are. I don't know about you, but I cannot change the past.

The US track record is by no means clean, but miles away from the likes of China, specially in recent years. And you should be able to criticize both (or more) without whataboutism.

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How about disprove just one thing?

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I don't have to. It's a shitty source that's making extraordinary claims, so it's on them to provide the extraordinary proof.

I could make any number of bullshit claims, like, say, Nazis built a moon base shortly before the end of WWII, and the inability of the allies to find Hitler's body proves that he didn't commit suicide in a bunker in Berlin, and you would quite rightly insist that I give you a lot of solid evidence. The article does none of that.

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Companies should not be free. Only people should be free. Companies exist to do what we want them too.

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Citizens should be free to choose which social media platforms there wish to use.

Companies are not free, which is why they must operate within the regulations and laws that protect consumers and the nation as a whole.

Banning TikTok only violates the freedom of citizens and does nothing to protect consumers or the nation. Your argument makes zero sense in this context.

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Did you actually read it? There’s links throughout.

How is them pointing out the work history of the government staff installed on this an “extraordinary claim”?

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And yet if a company is poisoning peoples minds they should be stopped from using it.

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Okay, so shut down twitter, Facebook, Fox News, rebel News, etc. Oh, what's that? You only want to shut down platforms that you disagree with? So "poisoning minds" was just a false projection.

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I dont disagree with tiktok in a political sense, I mean the addictive algorithm.

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Got no more retort? Did you change your mind or just decide to stop thinking about it to save your precious idea of your country.

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You act like citizens are being handed crack cocaine.

It's just videos. If you don't believe in people having free will to watch videos on the Internet, you don't believe in freedom.