On American TikTok users cannot seatch the phrase “Donald trump rigged election”, however when using a vpn to a mexican server the search does return results.

  • Prophet@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I’ve seen this posted elsewhere. Apparently it also doesn’t show results for “Joe Biden rigged election”

  • شاهد على إبادة@lemm.ee
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    Tiktok is ruined. I never used it, didn’t like that it was being banned, but perhaps this was part of the deal they struck to get unbanned.

    I guess just use a VPN and pretend to be from Mexico. There’s some irony in it. Or better yet, not use it at all.

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        1 month ago

        I think it’s because you uploaded (or at least formatted) it as an inline image so when you changed the title the url was replaced.

        Edit: lose the leading “!” if you want a clickable link with your chosen text, or leave it there and remove anything between “(” and “)” to have the image appear in your comment directly. In both cases you want the url between “[” and “]”

        !()[url of image you want to appear directly in your comment]

        or

        !(text you want)[url of image or anything you want to link to]

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    That’s disfavorable of Trump? I thought it was one of his main talking points.

    I guess it would be disfavorable if it referred to 2024 rather than 2020, but claiming 2024 was rigged doesn’t seem to be a big thing so I expect that most of the search results would have been about 2020.

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    I’ll stay on Rednote until our “free” country bans that too to maintain capitalist control of the narrative.

    We can talk about Luigi without our “free” country censoring us on our billionaire fascist owned social media, too.

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      1 month ago

      Dare you to talk about Taiwan see what happens. Fuck off with this “free” shit.

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      You think we’re still capitalist? Im not sure what to call the economy of this protofascist state but it isn’t capitalist with the amount the new administration is backing specific businesses.

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          In capitalism the state is expressly not interfering on behalf of one business versus another. This would be like a communist state that had a stock market. It fundamentally goes against acore principle of the philosophy

  • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    When was the last time you made this query? Did you only attempt it recently? Because it looks like TikTok is also blocking searches that make Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Bugs Bunny look bad too.

    It turns out its Rigged Election that can’t be searched.

    Please do better validation.

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      1 month ago

      Question is, how long has this been the case? If <rigged election> only got banned after they were unbanned in America and Trump became president, it is functionally the same thing.

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        No one knows. There is no evidence this was searchable before the shutdown. Zero. Combating misinformation about the election has been going on for years on social media. This measure is most likely been in place to stop people from spreading misinformation about him loosing in 2020.

        Besides, the ops title is a flat out lie. You can search disfavorable things about trump on tiktok in the USA.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I mean that is a pretty shit conspiracy theory.

    Searching “Trump Election Lie” does return results. So I don’t think they’re actually censoring so much as stopping real misinformation.

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