DrWhaxWe got WeChat tactics to avoid shadowbanning on tiktok now in the west!
Arik@drwhax Hey, a billion Chinese people can't be wrong, if it works for them...
aburka đź«Ł@drwhax we have the great firewall at home!
Jeff Atwood@drwhax there's a direct US civil rights reference here, DJ Playboy in Birmingham, Alabama circa 1963.
"James Bevel also wanted to use local radio stations to get the word out on protest day. He talked to Shelley as well as another local disc jockey named Paul White. His radio audience knew him as “Tall Paul.” Shelley says on May 2, 1963, he and “Tall Paul” announced the start of the children’s march. But, they did it in a roundabout way. They used codes."
https://www.apr.org/arts-life/2016-08-04/civil-rights-radio-part-3-they-told-the-teachers-were-gone
Civil rights activist, who took in the Birmingham "children's march," dies
Civil rights activist who took part in the 1963 protest, that became known as the “children’s march,” has died As a young Black woman, Mamie King-Chalmers appeared in an iconic photograph about that civil rights demonstration in Alabama in 1963
Project Insanity@drwhax couldn't find a source for this anywhere
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Melroy van den Berg@drwhax wechat and TikTok are both from China, so who would have guessed?
PypeBros@drwhax I guess that explain the recent purchase announcement of TikTok US I've seen lately ...
But otherwise, nice idea ^_^ (to survive an effectively dystopic repression T_T)
tessarakt@drwhax you need something like the DSA in the US ...
@tessarakt I don't live in the US
JWcph, Radicalized By Decency@drwhax BTW according to this borderline bothsides'ing article Americans are protesting at the highest rate since recording it began in 1976, so yeah, the downplaying is real & documented: https://theconversation.com/why-are-there-so-many-protests-the-us-public-is-highly-polarized-and-that-drives-people-to-act-263021
beemoh@drwhax Using (or inventing) slang to get around law enforcement isn't new:
https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Cockney-Rhyming-Slang
Yeah, it's a shame that it has to happen but it's far from an indictment that the modern world is uniquely broken.
Cake & Pudding 🌱@drwhax Cool. Searching vor #MusicFestival and #musicfestival2025 gave me these videos as a first hit.
https://www.tiktok.com/@jorgitoalgorta004/video/7551703566382288131
https://www.tiktok.com/@hhhjj9454/video/7536841019246120205
https://www.tiktok.com/@d2ec31c1/video/7536498899142380830
Did not expected Newspeak to arrive as a defense mechanism *against* an overbearing censor.
The searches:
https://www.tiktok.com/tag/lamusicfestival2025
https://www.tiktok.com/tag/24hourmusicfestival
https://www.tiktok.com/@jorgitoalgorta004/video/7551703566382288131
https://www.tiktok.com/@hhhjj9454/video/7536841019246120205
https://www.tiktok.com/@d2ec31c1/video/7536498899142380830
Did not expected Newspeak to arrive as a defense mechanism *against* an overbearing censor.
The searches:
https://www.tiktok.com/tag/lamusicfestival2025
https://www.tiktok.com/tag/24hourmusicfestival
levampyre@drwhax I recently wrote a thread about language and specifically the arbitrary nature of signs and our ability to interpret and give meaning to signs and how it will become an important tool for the #resistance. Machines and LLMs are able to pattern match and calculate allocation probabilities. But they cannot understand or create meaning. Only us humans can and we may use this to our advantage.
THIS is an excellent example of my hypothesis.