TikTok is blocking searches for WGA amid the ongoing writers strike
Users on TikTok searching for “WGA” are met with a screen claiming that the phrase “may be associated with behavior or content that violates our guidelines.” No videos return. Users are also unable to search for the “WGA” hashtag....
https://www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/tiktok-blocking-searches-wga-amid-ongoing-writers-strike
Yet another demonstration of the dangers of allowing a communication channel to be controlled by an entity whose motives aren’t aligned with what the users of that channel actually want / need.
Fediverse is the best collective action I can think of against this kind of censorship.
It’s been wild over the last few years to see authoritarians cheering on corporate social media censorship, as though it will never be turned on them.
Fuck censorship.
Fediverse is the best collective action I can think of against this kind of censorship.
The ideal if the Fediverse, yes. The reality of it, with Lemmy in particular, is that we have admins with the power to censor or curate as they wish, and while they may not be able to censor the entire fediverse, if they control a large chunk of it, it still has an effect on what users can see.
These guys can't even commie right...
Jfc...
Does anyone even care about the plight of labour anymore? Politically wise?
I was thinking the same thing!
Strikebreaking for the Glorious Worker’s Revolution! That’s how it’s supposed to work, right?
???
That’s TikTok, from a private corporation. They do not represent the CPC or the Chinese Government.
American companies do the same tho... but point stands all around.
NO such thing is "private sector" only thing that's private is the "HOLY PROFIT" any losses covered by labour that generated the profit, or not
Update (9/11/23): A TikTok spokesperson told Media Matters that “WGA has been inadvertently blocked as part of the platforms’ protections against QAnon conspiracy theories.” Searches for “WGA” and related terms now appear to function normally.
This is good to know and I'm glad to hear.
As an aside, do we have a system for OP to pin this comment to the top? This context is pretty important.
You left out the best part, which is like 90% of QAnon shit, they stole it from a movie. This is from the movie “White Squall.”
QAnon people are fucking crazy man. How does anyone fall for this shit?
Because we have a cultic milieu and it’s an extremely syncretic conspiracy theory. Never quite got past the satanic panic? Q is fighting the Satanists who made rent too damn high. Think aliens control the government? They’re working with the Satanists but they’re on the beat of ensuring your kids disagree with you after going to college. Aware that the rich are the enemy? Trump is secretly at war with the elites. Just a massive fucking bigot? Who do you think the elites are? No seriously you can copy and paste the group you hate in there, it could be anyone that isn’t a majority, they could be redheads for all Q cares.
Qanon has absorbed everything from the new world order (alien edition, but also the other ones too) to flat earth to satanic panic to NESARA to the fucking protocols of the elders of Zion and cultural Bolshevism (though they call it cultural Marxism but still blame Jews). These are all things that used to get you laughed out of a room if not beaten up but now there’s an audience who will “yes and” the most deluded bullshit you can imagine.
If it makes you feel any worse it’s not the first conspiracy theory to do that. Cultural Bolshevism fulfilled a similar role in the 1930s. It incorporated fears of Jews, Jesuits, Freemasons, homosexuals, communists… and yeah it went exactly how 1930s Europe went.
It’s important to remember, who and what only matters a bit. They aren’t attached to the fact that it’s aliens, they’re attached to the fact that it’s scary and unknown others who don’t think like them and they have to be responsible for everything getting worse. It’s why antisemitism is skyrocketing at the moment. Who that other is is absolutely irrelevant. Hate can be channeled where it needs gone.
What’s weird is even smart people buy into it. My last boss is an amazing, caring, brilliant woman. She’s a senior leader at a Fortune 100 company!
She got into Q via New Age hippie shit, which she got into after a bad divorce and “rediscovering” herself. Now she believes in vampires. It’s mind boggling.
Chinese people aren’t on TikTok.
They’re on Douyin and sand boxed away from any of that Western democracy and freedom concepts.
wwg1wga
Huh, what a terrible initialism.
The spokesperson added that searches for “Writers Guild of America” and “Writers Guild of America Strike” were not impacted.
Ok, if that’s true I can believe that.
I still know my old XP VLK.
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You’re welcome.
I’m well aware - they approached me with a lucrative job offer years ago, which I declined because I knew who they were.
Are you so naiive as to imagine that a major social media platform headquartered in Beijing is not censoring content at the direction of the CCP when there’s multiple, credible sources pointing to collusion between them?
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Here’s the TikTok CEO addressing Congress as it relates to their management of US data.
I wonder if you’ll:
Engage the point (to fight a losing battle),
Pivot to whataboutism and American diabolism that fails to engage the point, or
Do the smartest thing under the circumstances (assuming you’re incapable of learning) and quietly skulk away.
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