FYI, the BBC directorate has been taken over by members of the far-right Conservative party.
Bytedance should pull the app from the US and ban US IP addresses from logging in to TikTok at all. Then we'll see how quickly they change their tune.
Maybe it's time to stop supporting these companies.
The South African government should be suing Turnip for libel, for accusing us of "human rights abuses". He's insane, accusing the most democratic country in the world of that, where human rights are entrenched in our Constitution. Thankfully our government is standing firm. We will not be bullied by some racist US American.
The reason Mamdani is different to other politicians in the US is because he is not USAmerican. He used to live in democratic South Africa, so he has actual experience of living in a democracy, something that USAmericans have never experienced. I get it, if you have lived your whole life in a racist, white supremacist country with extreme white privilege, you think that is democracy, because you have no other experience to compare it to. White supremacy is not democracy, white privilege does not equate to human rights. You have no experience of democracy.
Honestly, from the perspective of the Global South, all Western media are, and have always been, right wing propaganda outlets. They're just going full blown fascist now.
This is brilliant! This is exactly the kind of thing Western governments need to do to combat misinformation and disinformation online. Instead of all these censorious "age verification" laws that the West keeps implementing in order to control the flow of information, make sure people putting out critical information actually know what they are talking about. This is democracy in action!
All this is just an excuse for Western governments to censor and control the flow of information in order to maintain white supremacy, patriarchy and colonialism.
Anna Bower just made a video about this telling the whole story from her side. If anyone's interested it's on the Legal Eagle channel on YT.
Having grown up under apartheid in the 70s I can tell you we never had anything remotely like this happen. Even during the darkest days of the State of Emergency did the apartheid government do this.
Roelof Botha is a white Afrikaner from South Africa. Another racist white man who benefited from apartheid. No wonder he's buddies with Musk.
It's a common misconception that Luddites were anti-technology and anti-industrialisation. Not so. They were anti-capitalist. They were against the factory owners keeping all the profits while paying the workers starvation wages. They were painted as being against "progress" by the extraction class, much like what is happening today.
Are you completely insane?
So tell me again about how the USA is a democracy. I've been warning you people for years, decades, about how the USA is a fascist totalitarian dictatorship. You just kept shutting me down and silencing me. The crows have come home to roost.
The USA is such a backwards and ignorant country.
But this actually never happened! Because "the USA doesn't kill civilians". /s
Wikipedia is already racist and mysoginist enough. Why would they want to make it even more racist and mysoginist than it already is?
Louis Rossman is offering a $20 000 bounty to anyone who cracks their firmware. He's doing good work 😁
Pot. Kettle.
"dropping"? It's always been The Torygraph, can't drop any lower than that😹