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.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    but guys, I’ve been assured by Lemmy’s most vocal tiktok supporters that tiktok is the last bastion of free speech. it’s a place where you’re free to express yourself without restrictions.

    are you telling me that tiktok lied and those poor people were just paid troll accounts?

  • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    8 hours 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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      3 hours ago

      Filtering “rigged election” and only in the US is still pretty damn sus though

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      3 hours 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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    9 hours ago

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

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    12 hours ago

    I’m suspicious that the ban would have been upheld if everyone jumped over to Twitter. But the scam failed when everyone went to red note.

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      12 hours ago

      Im on mobile I’ll try and re post it when I get home

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        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]

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    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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        7 hours ago

        Why would Trump say that!? I think it’s just him being incoherent, but it would be a confession from anyone who isn’t regularly so incoherent.

        Edit: Maybe Trump meant to say that he won because Musk protected the machines from tampering?

        • Anas@lemmy.world
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          He knows that even if the election was confirmed to be rigged, there’s nothing that will be done about it at this point.

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    6 hours 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.

    Link

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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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      you literally just invoked his name. without restrictions. no retribution.

      you are either the best useful idiot, or the worst troll.

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      8 hours ago

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

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      8 hours ago

      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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          8 hours ago

          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

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            Then, the US hasn’t been capitalist in a long time. Probably never was. The government has always interfered in the interest of one group or another. Sometimes, that group is (was) the public at large when it comes to labor or environmental rights. Sometimes, it’s in favor of big business. Oftentimes, it is. Interfering on behalf of one specific big business over another is just the latest step in the road of corruption that has been brazen since Citizens United was passed.

            The invisible hand of the free market has never existed. The rich have always been kept in check by government interference.