Is satire allowed?

NO WE DON'T ALLOW SATIRE ON THE INTERNET YOUR BANNED

Plot twist: you're dead serious
- How the hell are you posting I banned you. HACKER HACKER HACKER

While I would find an American tiktok ban funny, this satire/article gives me mixed feelings because the "tiktok ban legislation" they're trying to pass, has some real dystopic shit hidden in it, behind the only slightly dystopic veil of "banning the Chinese".

While China is definitely a problem to be dealt with, I think it's become the new "Think of the children!"
- As a Canadian, I'm much more concerned with America than China. You guys are much more of a problem for the average earthling.
- "These commie Timtoks will drag the kids to hell where they'll burn with the D&D dungeon masters and the people who hand out free hallucinogens to children!"
  -Republican Suburban Hellscape
More than that, it seems to validate the Chinese philosophy that censorship is the right way to combat foreign influence. The enforcement mechanisms are pretty obvious follow-ons of the premise, which is why we've mostly attempted to avoid this kind of thing. In my mind the marketplace of ideas fallout is the real problem.

genuinely believed this was real for a moment so good satire nice

The Chaser are real good at blurring the lines enough to question if it's real.

Darg. “Excited to here…” I think someone left a voicemail on my homophone.

American (congress) will ban Tiktok # Americans will be banned from Tiktok

The title made it sound the other way around as if Tiktok is banning americans.

It's effectively the same

They were so excited “to here” lol

Modern journalism standards

Lemmy.ml in shambles

I would not mind if they banned it here in Europe, too.

If it does, it'll only get replaced with something super similar.

I like my fellow American Lemmings and wouldn't want to see you banned. Some love from Europe ♥️

Tiktok got banned in India years ago. For anyone rejoicing, it doesn't matter, many other apps full the gap unfortunately the forefront being instagram reels which basically started right after tiktok got banned here

Meta is behind the lobbying that's going to get it banned here.

Why is this called satire?

2024 meta is the complete collapse between fiction and reality.

American here- I totally sympathize.

You need to be Usamerican to be able to believe this isn't real.

I don't know any social networks right now other than Lemmy, but this sounds kind of thrilling.

is satire allowed?

No. /s

Link to the full article:

https://chaser.com.au/general-news/tiktok-users-excited-to-hear-americans-will-be-banned-from-the-app/

I am not following this TikTok sale closely. The idea is that China

Hit enter and then forgot.

Is the idea that China steals our tech so we're going to steal their business and sell it to Americans?

.

You know the reason why they're considering banning TikTok?

Do you think it's to protect the people? Do you think it's because Social media is Toxic af? Well guess what...it's none of those things.

It's only because China passed laws saying that companies that operated there had to be owned by the Chinese. America just did a big fat "Nuh uh, you!" - that's all.

Your comment is just misinformation. The US government asked Tik Tok to sever it's ties to its parent company and they refused. This is also not anything new as other countries and government bodies including India, Australia, Canada, the UK, parts of the European Union, and New Zealand have banned the app from official devices due to security reasons.
This isn't a "America bad REEEEE" kind of moment.
- This isn't a "America bad REEEEE" kind of moment.
  Feels like 70% of all content on Lemmy is "America bad reee"
- Also it's literally what they already did to grindr and the sky didn't fall then either lol
- This isn't a "America bad REEEEE" kind of moment.
  EXACTLY! It's a "China bad REEEEE!" kind of moment.
  You missed the mark. Which was exactly the point I was making.