I suspect banning them will make them more powerful than they are. What we really need to do with these movements is to ridicule them at every chance possible, do not only condemn them but actively mock them and treat them with the highest degree of disdain. Make it clear that a shitstain is more worthy of consideration than them. We used to do that with the KKK in the US and it worked wonders.
Misleading since it doesn’t include streaming numbers. I’d wager most people streamed this.
I find it pretty ironic and interesting that Trump is single handedly responsible for making democrats believers of state sovereignty. At least something good will come out of this shitshow. It’s really the only way to curb autocracy.
Freedom of expression does not mean freedom from consequences. As someone who loves to engage on trolling for a laugh online I can tell you that if you get banned for being an asshole you deserve it. I know I have.
Fossil fuels will still have a place even many centuries from now. They are a good backup to have, like paper copies of digital documents.
They still have to sell.
Ah well I’m just parroting what I’ve read. I’m only superficially familiar with most tech stuff. I do know that the ban at least applies to the device, email and ip address for sure.
Yes he would if the option is making 0 dollars. Which is the option Bytedance faces, losing one of their biggest most profitable markets when they could get a big bag or do a stock sale and continue to profit from its growth.
Also I’d like to remind you, the US is not the only country looking to ban TikTok, other western countries are eyeing it as well.
For me their malicious intentions are transparent. Hell this bill passed with full bipartisan support after congress saw the intel acquired by the alphabet agencies proving as much. When was the last that happened?
Doesnt work. They ban your ip, MAC address, email, everything. They even have a tool that flags people that may be doing ban evasion based on behavior and communities that are joined by said account. You could get around it but it’s way too much effort just to use reddit.
I would prefer if it grew because so many communities are dead. It seems that only political and shitposting instances have constant activity.
For me it’s still not a real Reddit alternative. Which sucks because I’m permabanned from Reddit.
It’s gonna happen in the AT protocol I’m sure.
I don’t see how this is authoritarian, Bytedance’s bad intentions are clear. They could make money from selling the app, keep making money from it in a stock sale but yet they’d rather have 0 dollars than relinquish control of their brainrot engine. It’s clear that the CCP values it more as a cultural weapon than as a product.
I guess. Care to elaborate?
The only reason I still think they will inevitably fail (although not without a heavy cost to the public) is because of how many different factions there are. Currently they are united by a common hate of liberalism, but if they manage to defeat it they will inevitably turn on each other.
No matter how I slice this I strongly feel that all roads leads to a civil war and a fracturing of the federation.
Shit gotta wait for that Mac Pro Max with maxed out specs then.
Im not seriously considering it, it was more of a hypothetical question.
I’m not even considering doing all that shit just to use Reddit, which is why I asking if deleting the banned account after a year would be enough.
I guess I’m fucked. Just because neckbeards can’t have their animu made fun of.
The western world should just pull out and let them decide.
To know that you’d need to be paying attention. Most people are not paying attention, they only remember they had more money back then.
Listen you can either accept that the vast majority of people are simpletons and try to make this out to be more complicated than it is, or you can understand why Trump won and use that to win next elections. Trump won because he understands that they are simpletons and engages them as such.
Yes, but it’s different. Do you really not understand how simple the calculus is for people who are not politically and or philosophically engaged?
Violence against movements have a history of galvanizing them. For evidence look at the OG Nazis.
Also a ban, imo, does not qualify as violence. Violence would be if the discussion was to purge them like the roaches they are, but that’s not what’s happening.