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SphereofWreckening

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  • ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US

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  • YouTube and Instagram have features that are in direct competition with TikTok. YouTube has even been more aggressive in promoting themselves as the TikTok alternative. On top of that the US government has an incentive to keep them (Google and Meta) happy; since the US routinely spies on its own (and other countries) citizens through these companies.

  • ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US

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  • I'd love to see any evidence of TikTok acting on behalf of any country (especially China) as a hostile actor, or even any evidence of legitimate election interference. If anything banning TikTok is a significantly more hostile response from the US since it silences another forum for free speech.

    Social media is a cancer, but this ban is such obvious propaganda. The only reason TikTok was banned because the US government doesn't have free reign to spy on its users like it does with Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc.

    If the US government truly cared about social media and it's affects they would be regulating all of it. Instead they're trying to ban TikTok while screaming their heads off about China every chance they get. And that's before mentioning the extremely shady way they passed this; attaching it as a rider through a government 'aid' bill.

  • TikTok Ban Bill Becomes Law, Gives TikTok 9 Months To Sell

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  • Its because the company literally paid shills to stump for them in person, call Congress, etc.

    The way it was presented was that they paid average users to call Congress which is disingenuous. I'll admit I was wrong when I came to the influencers being paid for in person events, but that's only a smaller group of people and events. The vast majority were not paid and did so of their own volition.

    Edit: Didn't realize OP and the replier were different people. That's also on me.

  • TikTok Ban Bill Becomes Law, Gives TikTok 9 Months To Sell

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  • literally paid shills

    No *one outside of some influencers were paid lmao. People contacted Congress but they weren't paid, and a quick Google search brought up zero result of people being paid *outside of the influencers. So I'd love to see where you're sourcing this from.

    Edit: Correction - about 30 influencers were paid to visit events for Tik Tok. I'll rescind saying that literally no one was paid: that's point is wrong. My main point was that average users weren't paid to call into Congress. And the vast majority that called in or have talked out against the ban did so of their own volition rather than being paid as implied by OP's comment

  • J.K. Rowling will not be arrested for comments about transgender women, police say

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  • Even worse. Updated

  • J.K. Rowling will not be arrested for comments about transgender women, police say

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  • She is a billionaire that invests her resources into persecuting people for who they are and simply existing. Your acting as if she's some teenager that said something without thinking. She a full grown adult who should know better, but instead acts like a child having a tantrum whenever she's called out. I'm just some person saying fuck her for all of her bullshit. Don't pretend as if we're the same. We are not.

    Your attempt to compare us is not only disingenuous, but your rhetoric is actively condoning the multiple transphobic actions JK Rowling has made. She doesn't deserve coddling: she's fucking 58 years old. We can talk about human connection and pretend that "cancel culture" exists all we want. That doesn't change the fact that she started raging against people's human rights and then doubled down when called out. And until she recognizes how harmful her actions are she doesn't deserve the slightest bit of consideration or pity. She doesn't give it to the trans community, why the fuck should I give it to her? Just so she can spit on it and tell me to go die? Fuck that.

    Though that's a point I don't expect someone yelling "cancel culture" to actually absorb and reflect on.

  • J.K. Rowling will not be arrested for comments about transgender women, police say

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  • But she also has every single resource to escape her line of thinking while refusing to do so. She has never interacting with the trans community in any sort of good faith: so she does not deserve it in kind.

    None of this is "cancel culture": again it's calling out her horrific thoughts and ideas. Plus those same horrific thoughts and ideas have tangible horrific effects. Fuck JK Rowling.

  • J.K. Rowling will not be arrested for comments about transgender women, police say

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  • It's not "cancel culture": it's calling out their horrific beliefs. If gettings called out on having horrible thoughts leads you to becoming more extreme in those thoughts then you're just a bad person.

    Plus JK Rowling is still rolling in millions of dollars. She has every resource and avenue to learn better, and actively chooses not to. Fuck JK Rowling and her transphobic bullshit.

  • response to recent trends rule

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  • I'm from the US, and I can tell you the biggest threat to the US are billionaires and their special interests.

    Someone of the billionaire class like Taylor Swift does more environmental damage in a year than the average US citizen does through their entire lifetime. It is completely valid to call her out on this.

    But please, continue to disingenuously call all those critical of Swift a right wing troll. Always easier than acknowledging the nuance of a topic.

  • response to recent trends rule

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  • I appreciate the reply. I feel like a lot of people in this thread are failing to articulate themselves properly. Though there are clearly some commenters that have (very) misogynistic views that need to be checked.

  • response to recent trends rule

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  • *By simply hating a billionaire.

    Some of the criticism levied against Taylor Swift is definitely rooted in sexism, misogyny, and political bias: but not all of it.

    To lump everyone criticizing Taylor Swift into the same group as the misogynists and sexists is disingenuous. She deserves criticism and is not free of it just because she's a woman.

    She's also one of the most famous people in the world. So of course she's going to get more flack from her visibility alone.

    Thus the following can be true: Taylor Swift isn't the only one that deserves criticism from her private jet usage. And there are those that would criticize her in bad faith because of her political alignments/because she's a woman. But even then the criticism she has received is still completely valid.

    No billionaire deserves or needs special treatment.

  • Poperrule

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  • Everybody repeat after me: Thank you MatPat

  • Apple removes app created by Andrew Tate

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  • I stop reading after that since those are made up words.

    Ahh, so you're a complete fucking moron then. Checks out since you're defending Andrew "I moved to Romania so I wouldn't be charged with rape" Tate.