When horror hits China, the first instinct is shut it down

The petition alone won’t change much, but it could be one step in the right direction when we are willing to keep going a long way. That sounds pathetic, and maybe it fails, but being indifferent and doing nothing is certainly not an option as we know. As Biden said in his recent speech, “Setbacks are inevitable, giving up is unforgivable.”

Why are so many people still using this platform?

Just stumbled upon a 9-min video (Invidious link) about Twitter’s brief history after Elon Musk’s takeover. Maybe interesting.

I get what you mean, but Russia is in for a very bad economic future, even if the war in Ukraine ended today.

Yeah, that’s not new, but I feel there are still many who are unaware, although I don’t understand why.

Microsoft/Crowdstrike last summer.

I guess many from the .ml communities have alt accounts here and just parrot the propaganda. But it’s certainly true that it’s much better at Beehaw than there.

The agreement was signed by the UK and China (in 1947 if I’m not mistaken). As @hddsx already said, it is China that doesn’t hold up to the deal.

That aside, there is no reason to violate the universal human rights, no matter what the initial agreement says.

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There’s no conclusive evidence that “social media” is bad for kids, much less TikTok specifically or only.

This is blatant misinformation and inconsistent with scientific evidence.

Even Tiktok’s own investigation says there’s strong harm caused by its own platform, let alone the strong body of research on Tiktok and other platforms. Just read tbe article.

You’re right. One banner read:

“We want food not Covid testing; we want freedom not lockdowns; we want dignity not lies. We want reform not the Cultural Revolution; we want to vote not a leader; we are citizens not slaves.”

And another read:

“Go on strike, depose the traitorous dictator Xi Jinping.” The police immediately took him away and he has not been seen since.

You could write such banners in the U.S. and any Western democracy, and nothing would happen. In China, you disapear.

Peng Lifa didn’t call for insurrection, he held a white paper.

Sure, and the central government has no influence on the media. No censorship, right?

An ‘indie newspaper’ in China. Yah, that makes sense. (/s, just to be safe)

I don’t know what you want to say or what it has to do with the linked report, but there is a lot of propaganda on Chinese state-controlled media (e.g., [reports on a ‘civil war in Texas’](Misinformation spreads in China on ‘civil war’ in Texas), things like that).

What ‘these people’ report is on a person who forcibly disappeared after a peaceful protest, for holding a white paper. Every human being with a sane mind must condemn that.

Then it’s time to ban this.

This ‘blackout challenge’ on Tiktok was a thing before Tiktok?

@SoupBrick@yiffit.net

Nowhere did I say China was good. That is just a bad faith take. I was hoping you were actually trying to learn. Don’t bother responding, you are blocked.

It is a ‘bad faith take’ if one thinks that ‘China is good’? Is that right?

TikTok’s ‘blackout’ challenge linked to deaths of 20 children in 18 months, report says - (December 2022)

TikTok faces lawsuit over ‘blackout challenge’ death of 10-year-old girl – (August 2024)

Blackout challenge – (Wikipedia)

The blackout challenge is an internet challenge based around the choking game, which deprives the brain of oxygen.[1] It gained widespread attention on TikTok in 2021, primarily among children.[2] It has been compared to other online challenges and hoaxes that have exclusively targeted a young audience.[3] It has been linked to the deaths of at least twenty children.

There is much more on that across the web.

@SoupBrick

So banning social media platforms for censorship is okay, but if you do the same for protecting children’s mental health it is not? Isn’t that weird?

Why is TikTok banned in China, my friend?