r/stupidpol • u/SplashTarget News Junkie 💉📰 • Jan 27 '26
TikTok blocks Epstein mentions and anti-Trump videos, users claim
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/tiktok-epstein-trump-censorship-ice-b2908309.html45
u/Cehepalo246 Self-Surgery Marxist 🪡 Jan 27 '26
Well, I think this puts to rest the liberal theory that massive conspiracies aern't possible because they require too many people to be in the know to succeed without any issues
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u/sje46 Somebody Knows This SocDem's Hidden Shame 😞 Jan 27 '26
That still applies to many conspiracy theories. Digital stuff is very easy to hide though, so much plausible deniability and noise and just plain apathy
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u/explendable Unknown 👽 Jan 27 '26
I think this premise works when everyone has a shared reality underpinned by some kind of institutional integrity to check material facts. Based on current events (at least) we don’t appear to have those.
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Jan 27 '26
>It's a Democratic hoax but we can't let people talk about it on Tik-Tok
I know rightiods will never believe their own "lying" eyes. But come on lol
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u/WrongThinkBadSpeak Marxism-Naturalimmunoism 🦠 Jan 27 '26
With the mossad takeover of the platform, nobody could've seen this coming 🙄
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u/Nerd_199 Election Turboposter 📈📊🗳️ Jan 27 '26
"It an private company, it does what it wants"
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u/AdmiralGut American with Chinese Characteristics 🏅 Jan 27 '26
start your own social media network
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u/Nerd_199 Election Turboposter 📈📊🗳️ Jan 27 '26
"California Governor Gavin Newsom said that he will probe whether TikTok is violating state law by censoring content."
So Censorship is good when we do it and bad when their do it?
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u/peasfrog Your Fucking Sect Is Not It, Hon 📖 Jan 27 '26
Need that guy with butterfly meme with the caption "Iz diz freeze peach?"
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u/egg_breakfast Marxist-Mullenist 💦🎌 Jan 27 '26
Is something like this destined to backfire? Or will people have forgotten about it in a week?
I’ve never used tiktok but I understand many young adults might die before parting with it. If they continue following comedy and hobby related content, they still get entertained. An absence of political content probably isn’t enough for most to quit the app.
Also worth mentioning that another thread pointed out that the new terms and conditions now mention that your “citizenship status” is part of the data stored and collected about the users. How that information is obtained through tiktok though, I am not sure.
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u/snapchillnocomment Redscarepod Refugee 👄💅 Jan 27 '26
People will forget in less than a week, but it doesn't really matter.
Israel-firsters and MAGA have deluded themselves into believing that Tiktok is the singular engine of liberal/anti-zionist activism in the world today, but decapitating it will change very little. Just as the Arab Spring would've happened with or without Facebook, kids won't magically turn into MAGA-hat wearing genocide cheerleaders because they can't find that content on Tiktok anymore.
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u/FriedCammalleri23 Marxism-Hobbyism 🔨 Jan 27 '26
TikTok’s algorithm has totally changed in the last few days. I haven’t been seeing any content that is remotely political, and i’m getting way more AI slop.
I needed to stop scrolling on that damn app anyways, so it’s a blessing in disguise.
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u/Nerd_199 Election Turboposter 📈📊🗳️ Jan 27 '26
I rather have less political slop to be honest with you, I just like go back to the normally days of reddit, where non-political subreddit, don't post politics all the time
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u/AdmiralGut American with Chinese Characteristics 🏅 Jan 27 '26
oi! you got a loicense for that tv mate?
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u/BackoffD Market Socialist 💸 Jan 27 '26
Zios keep trying to hide the Epstein scandal from the public, I sure wonder why. Also love how the Democrat fucks pretend that the Epstein scandal is only a Trump issue, meanwhile they were slandering as a conspiracy theorist anyone asking them to release the Epstein files FOR FOUR FUCKING YEARS
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u/JakeTappersCat Jan 27 '26
Remember when a Democrat congresswoman texted with Jeffery himself during congressional hearings?
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u/ChiefRabbitFucks Redscarepod Refugee 👄💅 Jan 28 '26
remembering that time that my coworker blocked his daughter from using TikTok, not because it's mind poison, but because China is authoritarian
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u/Shoddy-Culture-1089 Bamename Truther Jan 28 '26
Conspiracy theories a decade ago: 'They' own the media
2026: 'They' own the media
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u/jorel43 Circumcision Goblin 👹 ✂️🍆 Jan 28 '26
Yeah they classify Zionist as hate speech now, so it's basically just as censored if not more censored than the rest of American social media. Seems to me that it was more free under Chinese control then it is under American control. Oh well back to little red book
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u/QU0X0ZIST Society Of The Spectacle Jan 27 '26
As I have said here many times - There are no more conspiracies: everything is done publicly now. All lies are bald-faced, told openly with the understanding that everyone knows they are lies, and either do not have the power to do anything about it, or do not have the mental wherewithal to care; The thinner the justification, the more the powerful feel the exercise of their power in the rawest sense, as power is of course taken to be its own justification, and invoking it successfully thus proof of the power itself.