Yes, valid commentary like yours gets silenced but not the hate speech from anonymous accounts. It’s frustrating. It’s likely that in your case though, the graphic language was caught by a filter. People have workarounds like that. For example, I see commenters used “unalived” instead of “killed”. Maybe you’ll have better look using creative language like that.
TikTok and their parent company have a lot to answer for. There are hoardes of abusive, anonymous accounts active on a daily basis. ByteDance don’t allow it to the same degree at all in China.
I understand completely. I’ve never been so angry (yet despairing). It’s the most depraved group I’ve ever learned of in my life and I don’t know if I’ll ever fully recover from the shock.
“One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” Omar El Akkad
I don’t have words for this. I don’t know how anyone can live life completely untouched by what has happened and is happening here.
The code is one thing. 300 skilled developers is another. Most of those could be full-time too.
Despite those choices, I’m not sure there were many other directions that could ever bring in the profits that Google does.
“What a total fucking disgrace the Biden administration’s policy on Gaza was… Loyalty to Netanyahu blinded him to the carnage, the total immorality of the policy, and US complicity …”
Sorry, but that’s a cop out. Nothing “blinded” Biden. He saw it all and was unfazed enough to let it play out, and also lie about seeing photos of things that framed Hamas for atrocities it didn’t commit.
As for the former Obama aides speaking out only now. I think they’re the people referred to in the title of the book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad.
How did I sleepwalk through to my mid 40s without realising what an absolute depraved state Israel is. I’m glad the truth is coming out but it’s only baby steps so far.
Sadists do like to record their work for reviewing pleasure. Seriously.
I agree. I’m not thinking about USA at all.
As for the EU, we should fund a federated or decentralised system. I think it works well on Lemmy. For example I know not to trust feddit.org for anything related to Palestine. Content on other servers shows their pro-Israel bias.
I think a system like that could benefit the US to a point, at least until the government block all external news and commentary.
You’re right 🤦🏻♂️
I had no idea. You’re right. It was a $15B business in 2019. https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/3/21121207/youtube-google-alphabet-earnings-revenue-first-time-reveal-q4-2019
Makes the ads seem even more obscene now that I know that.
I think it’s running it at a loss too. But there’s no reason these platforms couldn’t be publicly owned.
Full respect to the Swiss here. This is bold and dignified.
Lies is what most colonial powers are founded on. It’s all cosplay and hysteria. That’s all they have.
Should we start advertising cigarettes again so? Because that went really well! /s
Cover the windows from the outside (not inside) to stop sunlight raising the temperature through the glass. I use tinfoil.
A sufficiently vague statement for the massacre to continue. Absolutely evil.
We really need to be more sceptical of celebrities, politicians - anybody in a position of influence. I remember thinking Obama and Biden seemed “wholesome”. Obviously, that’s an incredibly naive take, but it’s one that many of us are susceptible to as humans.
We are eager to find “gods”: people we can workship without the friction of scrutiny or criticism. It feels good - even blissful - to adore someone unconditionally. Whatever the mechanic, it would be great if we could identify it - delineate it - so we can recognise it and do the slightly tougher job of restraining our adoration of people in power.
We can still see them as humans and treat them with basic decency, but as long as masses of us fall under the spell of adoration we will continue to live in hell, or visit it on our neighbours.