[_menelaus]

Does anyone actually not realize this was to stymie criticism of Israel? You Netanyahu bragging about how this is central to winning the propaganda war. Ellison is the biggest private donor to the IDF. Put it together.

[roncesvalles]

Jonathan Greenblatt (CEO of the ADL) was on record saying "TikTok is Al Jazeera on steroids" before the ban bill got a lot of wind.

What's ironic is that ultimately their suspicion that TikTok was influenced by the PRC to push an anti-Israel agenda was most probably incorrect. Israel lost the narrative in the West because it simply did a lot of shitty things in the war, and everyone from homeless people to war refugees carry around an HD camcorder in their pocket now. I still see shocking videos of what the IDF is doing in Gaza on a monthly basis, on Instagram of all places.

[_menelaus]

Scaremongering about the PRC was just the public facing justification for the ban bill. Its not like they can just come out and say "The Israelis have me on tape violating children and so I need to pass this bill to let them take over the biggest social media platform they don't control already so they can face less criticism for their genocide".

[spencerflem]

+1 - the timing of the bill makes this extremely clear.

[tastyface]

That and to promote the regime’s white supremacist agenda. (Expect to see a lot more nauseating propaganda along the lines of the memes that official Administration accounts have been posting.)

[leoh]

Did you create this account just to say stuff like this? Incidentally, TikTok is still as anti-Israel as ever.

[guizadillas]

Yeah, that's why they are trying to censor it and they are doing it actively, now they will do it more effective