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Well, Jonathan Majors is an abusive POS and is likely to get recast now. What an absolute fucking clown.

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Tiste Simeon, on 24 March 2023 - 03:35 PM, said:

I don't' think there is ANYTHING I've seen him in that I disliked him in. He was a wonderful character actor.

I did a half hour vigil kneeling in front of Zavala at the Tower in DESTINY 2 when I returned from vacation. Felt right to pay a little tribute in my own way.

Gothos, on 24 March 2023 - 03:48 PM, said:

Because nothing is stifled on TikTok, it's video that's easy to upload and parse and filled with people talking. When Iran was having it's uprising over that woman's death, the ONLY place you could find videos of the actual fight, was on TikTok.

Gothos, on 24 March 2023 - 03:48 PM, said:

It's Red Scare bullshit all over again. Just with a new Other to swing accusations at.

Gothos, on 24 March 2023 - 03:48 PM, said:

If we want to talk about that, then all those social media companies and their third party vendors sell your data to the Chinese (and others) anyways. Anyone who believes otherwise is willfully ignoring the elephant in the room. At no point am I'm going to believe that massive corporations that run social media are not in cahoots with one another on a macro level and in the US they just ignore the ones that help them stay in power or please their donors. If you took Truth Social (for example) to task for the same "security risks"....you would watch every single Republican lawmakers fall all over themselves to defend it...it's ALL theatre. No one has anyone's bets interests at heart. We live at the epicentre of Oligarchy capitalist hell.

Cause, on 24 March 2023 - 02:24 PM, said:

My fave part of the whole thing was when the (I think 'D') lady put her foot in her mouth by asking about if he (Chew) would want his 8 year old to see some of the more mature stuff on Tiktok, and he was like "my wife and kids are in Singapore, and you're not allowed to be on social media there under the age of 13" and she had no idea how to reply because in America it's a free for all for all ages...she may as well have painted a big finger directly back at herself for the fact that kids in America can access social media of any kind so easily. FFS, Twitter (which again, is monitored and often censored by the FBI) has actual porn/violence/other stuff on it that you only need to have an account to see, and is not behind any other wall to prevent them....but yeah let's worry about TikTok (which doesn't allow that at all) shall we?

These people could not be more transparent that it's not about what they claim it's about if they tried.

Gothos, on 24 March 2023 - 12:25 PM, said:

Pulling up a decent YT video for a recipe (as an example) takes time and effort I don't need on something like Tiktok where I can just search a term and then scroll until I find one I like, or go to one of the chefs I follow and learn something. That's just one example. It's ease of access for me, 1000%. It also suffers none of the ads you have to deal with on YT.

Do I still get recipes from other places online? Sure, my recipe keeper app likes links...but I've made many a dish from TikTok and enjoyed it.

Gothos, on 24 March 2023 - 12:25 PM, said:

Nah, I'm not standing up for any govt here, can't stand the CCP...it's just wildly amusing to me that a social media app that lets us plebs not only talk to each other, but share shit you can't find through heavily lobbied and regulated media sources, is so scary to those govt entities. Hell, the protests in Paris have been laser organized on TikTok VS the other social media. There's a reason for that.

Whether I think a corporation OR a govt has my best interests at heart? I do not....but more do I care? I also do not.

I'm amazed that it's been proven that the FBI filters and censors something local like Twitter...but somehow everyone is okay with that....but yeah a company like TikTok that is run by a Singaporean (with a Taiwanese wife...the fact of this should not be lost on anyone who knows about the CCP) is somehow in bed with the CCP enough for me to care about my data.

Like we either regulate ALL these companies, or none of them. This is why it will never happen...the US lawmakers don't WANT FB, Twitter, and Insta to go away...but they would need to if the ban hammer was welded at TikTok....this shit is all about the soundbites the lawmakers can use to foist shit onto their followers from...ding ding sing...their social media accounts.

And until someone can produce actual evidence of the supposed links between the CCP and TikTok...then we are all pissing into the wind.