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wooooootoday at 2:43 PM3 repliesview on HN

It's not about legality, its about scrolling and recommendations. Young people see stuff by other young people by default.

Its been a conservative/zionist talking point for years now that "the youth are getting brainwashed by tiktok", and Ellison in particular seems to be in the "I've gone hard right due to the latest Israel conflict" camp. So of course they're not being subtle about it.


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pjc50today at 2:57 PM

Yeah, this is where the friction is because it's ambiguous. "Access to" and "promoted by" are not the same thing, especially on platforms where you don't have a pure-chronological feed and all "home screen" content and its ordering is selected by the platform. Leaky, imperfect filters are still filters.

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ericmaytoday at 2:53 PM

So I do have easy access to information, and the OP was incorrect?

> its about scrolling and recommendations

Don't scroll and don't take recommendations from these platforms. It's better now that it's American owned, but you really shouldn't have been using it when the Chinese Communist Party owned it.

And I'm only talking about TikTok because that's the OP. I don't use any social media platforms besides LinkedIn, and LinkedIn is such a big piece of trash I don't think it matters if anyone uses it.

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grueztoday at 2:48 PM

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