Jimmy Dore (26:15)
That's exactly what they do. And, and here's the. The part that irks me the most. And I think maybe it's deliberate, maybe it's not. But it seems like, you know, if you do censorship, maybe on behalf of the American regime, that would maybe be okay. But now it's very clear you're doing censorship on behalf of a foreign country, which is, I think a lot of people are like, are very uncomfortable with. And that's. That's the part that's really peculiar about this whole thing is why are we doing it? Why are we so. Why are we so in bed with this, with this country that seems to be abusing us? That's kind of, that's kind of my thought process. And these changes are happening really quick. I'm on Tick Tock. You know, that's one of my largest platforms that I'm on. And you could see it happening very quickly. My two next videos after this M2 update was rolled out was almost immediately throttled and, and taken offline for community guidelines violations. They were both, you know, videos about Israel. You can also. Some people are reporting you can't even talk about the actual sale of Tick Tock itself. I'll pull this up right now. This is another Tiktoker, your favorite guy. TikTok is removing content from their feeds that call out Zionist billionaire and Trump ally Larry Ellison for building a media monopoly. Ellison is reportedly poised to take control of a majority share of Tick Tock. Right. They're not even allowing people to even talk about and give information on the nature of the sale of the company, which is absolutely insane. And this is from Drop site news here. TikTok is reportedly escalating a sweeping crackdown on pro Palestine creators deleting videos, scrubbing comments and burying posts about Gaza. Right. This is once again about Erica Mendel, former IDF instructor who now runs the Tick Tock policy team. And she says her Zionism was quote shaped during Operation Protective Edge. I think that was 2014, a ground offensive against Gaza. And, and yeah, this is just, this is just insane where they're talking about introducing these new community guidelines banning users from calling the IDF terrorists. We don't have such rules for, you know, any other military or even in the American military. Right. You can go ahead and call them terrorists and that's totally fine. No problem there. And, and it seems like they're creating special rules. It does seem, it does seem very odd that, or I think it's they, the, the pro Israel people. This is, I guess my advice to them is they should maybe think about, you know, why this is happening versus just this clampdown to say, hey, if you need to make special rules to protect your organizations or your institutions from being ridiculed and attacked, maybe look inward versus, you know, trying to, to just delete everybody off of the, the Internet. Because I think, you know, in the case of Charlie Kirk, you know, you could see some, some patterns around. Hey, the first thing they do is they try to buy you off Right through APAC and things like that. They try to, to, to, to pay you money to get you to say what you want to say. If you don't, then it's oh, then, then it's maybe cancellation. To say, well if you don't do this then, then we're going to go after everybody that you love, your family, things like that. And then maybe ultimately is to delete you completely off the face of, of the Internet. So I don't know exactly what their plan is going forward, but I think this is really critical. Like Jimmy was saying earlier in that TikTok is where the young people is at. If you see the number one platform is YouTube with 90 of teens, 13 to 17 on it, but secondly it is Tick Tock. So that means that this is the, where they're getting all their information from. And that's why, you know, when people come at me and say, well you know, if you get rid of Tick Tock, you still have X, you know, X is a free speech platform, quote unquote. And I say, well that's not really critical because if you see X way down in the list in terms of active users, you want these, this type of information or they're really afraid of this type of information to be proliferating on what I would call, you know, more or less kind of a normie platform where, you know, you see cooking videos, you see dancing videos, you see pranks, and all of a sudden, wow, a video about Gaza. And people are like, what the fuck happened here? And so that's, I think, very dangerous to them. And also TikTok, which is a little different than YouTube. YouTube I think you go on, you watch a video for 10 minutes, 20 minutes, there's not this sort of interactive component to the platform. Whereas if you use Tick Tock people on there in the comments, you can reply to a video with another video, then there's conversations made off of that. So I think that is the part that they're really afraid of in terms of the, the organic reach of that platform. And, and this is why, exactly why they're shutting it down. I don't know if at this point, you know, I was one of the big proponents of wanting to save Tick Tock just as a platform where free speech can happen. But it's clear that that is no longer going to be a prioritization. And so is that even worth saving? And another thing I'll add is that what they're proposing with this algorithm is to essentially create a walled off US portion of the App where the US users are fed certain or on a. A very particular algorithm that's different than everywhere else in the world. Very similar to how China does it. And I think.
