[HN Gopher] The reason behind the TikTok ban
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The reason behind the TikTok ban
Author : primogen
Score : 43 points
Date : 2025-02-16 19:09 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| joshdavham wrote:
| Please use the title of the actual article being linked. This is
| mentioned in HN's guidelines here:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
|
| Your title should be "TikTok Ban Fueled by Israel, Not China",
| not "The reason behind the TikTok ban".
| j_maffe wrote:
| If this post gets flagged I will lose all trust in this forum and
| its admins. This is not the first instance a post like this gets
| flagged. This post perfectly relates to the themes of the forum.
| This is completely and utterly unacceptable.
|
| Edit: I'm at least thankfull the admins have restored the post.
| jazzyjackson wrote:
| Lots of users flag things because it's a guaranteed flame war,
| I almost flagged it after reading because it's kind of one
| persons opinion with a few references to politicians'
| statements and it asserts that this is the whole story when
| it's not, ie, just someone's crappy substack without any
| substantial new info. But I'll refrain hoping that there's some
| discussion on the merits of banning Tik-Tok, but really
| anything Israel adjacent is not going to last long on hacker
| news. Arguing about it does not do much to build community.
| j_maffe wrote:
| The comment by the politician that pushed for the bill gives
| the post sufficient merit.
|
| > but really anything Israel adjacent is not going to last
| long on hacker news. Arguing about it does not do much to
| build community.
|
| I'd like to believe that the forum I'm reading from does not
| censor or facilitate the censorship based on political bias.
| I don't think I'm the only HN user to feel this way. This
| argument is purely defeatist.
|
| NB: The post got killed from an abundance of flags btw so you
| were right about that. This flagging and "vouching" system is
| ripe for abuse and needs to be fixed.
| like_any_other wrote:
| > As Warner describes, the briefing tipped the anti TikTok
| legislation over the edge, passing through a key committee with a
| vote of 50-0.
|
| If only US politicians were so united in protecting America as
| they are in protecting Israel.
| jazzyjackson wrote:
| Government contractors have been banned from having Tik-Tok
| installed on any device they use since June 2023, legislation to
| force divestment was introduced in January prior, so I was
| tempted to dismiss this article front the first sentence, of
| course it did not start with oct 7, but fine, the matter became
| more urgent with the swell of content that's, let's say, critical
| of Israel.
|
| But the article is reaching by asserting that pro Israeli
| lobbyists have outsized sway and we banned Tik-Tok as a favor to
| an ally. There are other factors that freak out American
| politicians and their constituents (I just wish they were equally
| freaked out by American corporations doing the same things wrt
| surveillance and behavior modification)
|
| https://www.acquisition.gov/far/52.204-27
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| https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/85
| j_maffe wrote:
| Isn't what you're saying fitting to the narrative presented by
| Gallagher? Also why are you focusing on what the article is
| portraying and not what the politician who pushed for the bill
| is literally stating exactly what happened?
| j_maffe wrote:
| One has to wonder why the only major non-Western social media
| outlet turns out to not suppress anti-Israeli sentiment. Of
| course it could be possible that TikTok could have placed a bias
| in the algorithm somewhere. But honestly I think it's more likely
| that the bias is in the Western social media platforms, as has
| been reported by non-other than Western-media.
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