I dunno, I only recall them talking about the Tiktok ban for 2-4 months, but maybe they started at least 3 months before that and I didn’t notice right away?
Either way, the (even more than usually) heavy censorship basically started on the 8th of October, with people getting canceled left and right for daring to criticize the Israeli war crimes immediately following the terrorist attacks without watering it down by explicitly adding criticism of Hamas in the same breath.
Fair enough heh. Can’t get it to do that (it only gives me “at least this recent” options, not “at least this long ago” ones), but based on our previous interactions here on Lemmy I’m gonna trust you and take your word for it 😁
The problem with your first reason is that this TikTok sale nonsense started before Israel invaded Gaza.
Nah, I’m pretty sure Tiktok didn’t exist in 1948 😛
Fair, although the activism they’re currently censoring was not being so heavily censored before.
I dunno, I only recall them talking about the Tiktok ban for 2-4 months, but maybe they started at least 3 months before that and I didn’t notice right away?
Either way, the (even more than usually) heavy censorship basically started on the 8th of October, with people getting canceled left and right for daring to criticize the Israeli war crimes immediately following the terrorist attacks without watering it down by explicitly adding criticism of Hamas in the same breath.
If you time-restrict Google to before October 7th, you’ll see it was talked about quite a bit-
https://www.google.com/search?q=tiktok+sale&client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=3e5ddf52b76d97c4&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A%2Ccd_max%3A10%2F7%2F2023&tbm=
Fair enough heh. Can’t get it to do that (it only gives me “at least this recent” options, not “at least this long ago” ones), but based on our previous interactions here on Lemmy I’m gonna trust you and take your word for it 😁
Weird. Not sure why. But just for anyone else curious, here’s an article from March 15, 2023:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-admin-demands-tiktoks-chinese-owner-sell-stakes/story?id=97899074