House Moves Toward Bundling TikTok Bill With Aid to Ukraine and Israel
A new measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app’s sale.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/technology/tiktok-ban-ukraine-israel-aid.html
Fun fact: these days, Tiktok is the main social media outlet for uncensored pro-Palestine activism, owing to the fact that Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube tend to censor most criticism of the Israeli apartheid government.
THAT’S why they’re suddenly pretending that its spying on users is any worse than that of the others (it’s not) now of all times: AIPAC and other major donors are feeling the heat and want to shut people up.
That and because it’s an election year and the combination of xenophobia and pretending to care about online privacy appeals to a wide selection of gullible prospective voters.
It's not for "uncensored pro-Palestine activism", it's a primary vector for distributing blatant propaganda and misinformation. China is one of the big three who are aggressively pushing a pro-Hamas narrative on social media:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/technology/israel-hamas-information-war.html
In case of paywall:
the NYT is a pro-Israel newspaper. See their recently leaked guidelines on covering Israel.
The shocking revelation of the New York Times’s offensive internal style guide on language it will not permit in its Palestine reporting should prompt a broad examination of the paper’s longtime bias.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab–Israeli_War
the arabs did not want an israeli state, they fucked up i suppose.
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