Watch Laowhy86, he’s an American who married a Chinese woman, speaks fluent mandarin and lived in China for over a decade. Basically TikTok is owned by the Chinese and all the data they get goes straight to the Chinese communist party. That is why you should want TikTok closed down. And the fact that TikTok tries to influence American opinion, kind of like voice of America, only working for the communists instead of for us.
This is a very interesting hypothesis and a very good explanation of the rapid spread of protests on college campuses all across the country. This might just give protesters a sense of community and a common purpose.
TikTok is a both a symptom and a disease, very entertaining disease at least to some. That said, modern medicine treats symptoms - often before it can touch the disease. The extent to which TikTok infrastructure is subverted by CCP will probably remain unknown. There are many ways to collect data and I doubt that TikTok is much worse than someone like Equifax. But the efficiency in spreading weaponized propaganda and their commitment to selective enforcement and “curating” - my favorite weasel word from Russian propaganda - that’s fairly indisputable
Former "netroots" activist here. Video is the primary form of social media activism. YouTube was an important tool for OFA and Obama in 2008. For a long time, Twitter was the best platform for cross-platform virality -- that is, a video on Twitter would be more likely to spread to other platforms than vice-versa. TikTok was Number Two in this category a year ago when I observed netroots activists discussing how to adapt to Elon Musk's Twitter. The war over TikTok is really about ownership of the power to spread ideas.
Ryan, you need to wrap your mind around the difference between "anti-jewish" and "anti-Isreali". Then rethink this video. Consider reaching out to some "peer reviewers" or something to help you provide balanced analysis in one video insted of making several additional videos to pick up the pieces from the initial effort.
Nevertheless this was a great video an much needed. The initial effort was still rough around the edges.
Sorry maybe I just missed it.. at what point in this video did he make the claim that being anti-Israel is the same as being anti-Jewish? I didn't hear that part.
You are correct that he did not explicitly make that connection. He did make a poor analogy comparing racism in the USA with antisemitic/anti-Israeli sentiment. Someone that disagrees with Jews that support the far right policies of the current Israeli government is not anti-Jewish or racist. They could be considered centrist or leftist but not racist. The Israeli electorate is polarized much in the same way the USA is; these false divisions do nothing but perpetuate the conflict. They serve no purpose towards resolution of the problems they only serve to divide; which keeps their political status quo in power/place......just like here.
Let me ask you this: If you were Jewish and wore a yarmaluke, would you feel safe walking by one of these protests?
I guarantee you that a lot of these people are racist. I've even considered taking off the Star of David necklace my old girlfriend gave me because I don't want to go looking for trouble.
Yes there is a very substantial difference between being anti-Israel and “anti-Jewish”. People calling for destruction of Israel make it rather clear that they will treat Israeli Arabs, Druze and everyone else living there as just as much as subject to cleansing as their main target.
It’s also pretty clear that professional hate mongers have long since realized that they can use “anti-Israel” as a dogwhistle - in that line of thought, you can spin the most asinine bigotry and lies as long as you remember to footnote those antisemitic claims with “we’re not antisemitic, just anti-Israel”.
When their basic platform includes a thorough genocide, and they have historically targeted civilians - including civilians with no connection to Israel as well as civilians with a history of opposition to Israeli methods - it becomes clear this is nothing but sophistry designed to target people with diminished capacity for logic and basic fact checking. That’s what usually happens when you try to engage those kids on facts they think they know: it ends up with denial, lots of huffing, calling you a “paid agent” and usually a ban.
This is a very different kind of release from you, Ryan. I appreciate the additional perspective you've offered in these increasingly confusing and complex times. I was out of work through most of COVID and felt less *intentionally* confined and restricted and more a victim of lack of employment than confinement due to COVID. Before now, I never considered how COVID would have remarkably changed my college experience had it happened in that stage of my life. Gives me pause.
Ryan, the reason kids are protesting with mask is simple. Like all kids throughout history, they are doing it because their friends are doing it. It’s the latest fashion trend for this type of protest.
Politicians and people like to blame TikTok for our issues, because it’s easier than looking at ourselves and taking stock of the society we have created.
Is there a way to determine if any of the recent college demonstrations were organized using the methods outlined in your ‘TikTok is a Cyberweapon’ video?
Both sides have very nice people. When such moral visionaries as David Duke, nick fuentes, Putin, Tucker, ayatollahs and Taliban - conscience of our generation - come out in full support of one side here, I’m fairly sure I know where my cards will fall
I agree. That's always been the case, to be honest.
To me, it seems that it always boiled down to the wanting to belong and the wanting to be relevant. Our small social communities for better or worse managed the extremes in certain kind of behavior and supressed the outliers. A double edged swordy thingy topic if you consider free speech to be important.
The internet opened up the access to finding a community for everyone regardless of their ideas and without getting bullied they can "belong to", regardless of their ideas.
At first, to me that sounded like progress - no repressing thoughts. Now? Not so sure where to draw the line between "free thinking" and "allowing toxic thoughts to flourish". Because where do we draw the line, coming from a "no thought police" stance, between "fine" and "oh god please no lock that person up right now"?
I didn't add paragraphs and blank lines on purpose, because.. well.. a rant with blank lines and paragraphs for readability is to be honest so very not 2024. (edit: added blank lines. it was absolutely unreadable)
Another thing the internet ruined: Folks like me thinking they can confer wisdom to the "unthinking depths" - by itself a quite stupid and arrogant idea of me.
Sorry.
PS: Which is interesting.. how easy the mass of opinions enables anyone to just disregard anything not aligning to their thinking. Ha. I might have been slightly wise there. Maybe.
I recognize that racism is ubiquitous so I will not argue whether there were any racists in the crowd. Reports from local NYC and student media outlets (along with NPR) indicate there were Jewish students among those arrested at the protest and that the racism claims may have been exaggerated or fabricated. Since I know there were jews there at the pro-palestine protest I would not feel any more unsafe walking past than I would at any other protest.
I haven’t heard any racism claims. Just calls for genocidal violence, ethnic cleansing and such. Enough to have Columbia tell their Jewish students to stay off campus for their own safety.
Those calls for genocide, etc., were not observed by the Jewish students and faculty at the protests and interviewed by local press in stories I have read online. Doesn't mean it didn;t happen or couldn't happen but it could also be an attempt to create a narrative beneficial for a University just in the crosshairs of the US Congress.
Here is some. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6HBHWxrKbi/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link There’s is a whole lot more explicit, violent bigotry at these events then at a klan rally. It’s pretty hard to argue against all evidence, considering that ethnic cleansing is a foundational principle of Hamas.
It’s like there was a public rally demanding wholesale lynchings and folks would be going around questioning whether non-white families in the area have any real reason to feel threatened.
Indeed. If those are accurate translations and video from the NYC protests, I agree with you. I have to rely on interpreters for that and I won't discount the possibility that a movie star/internet personality has fallen victim to some DIP...
Watch Laowhy86, he’s an American who married a Chinese woman, speaks fluent mandarin and lived in China for over a decade. Basically TikTok is owned by the Chinese and all the data they get goes straight to the Chinese communist party. That is why you should want TikTok closed down. And the fact that TikTok tries to influence American opinion, kind of like voice of America, only working for the communists instead of for us.
I love laowhy and serpenza content
This is a very interesting hypothesis and a very good explanation of the rapid spread of protests on college campuses all across the country. This might just give protesters a sense of community and a common purpose.
seems tiktok is a psyops weapon too, being able to hack into the public's need to feel community for the ends of sparking discontent and outrage
TikTok is a both a symptom and a disease, very entertaining disease at least to some. That said, modern medicine treats symptoms - often before it can touch the disease. The extent to which TikTok infrastructure is subverted by CCP will probably remain unknown. There are many ways to collect data and I doubt that TikTok is much worse than someone like Equifax. But the efficiency in spreading weaponized propaganda and their commitment to selective enforcement and “curating” - my favorite weasel word from Russian propaganda - that’s fairly indisputable
Former "netroots" activist here. Video is the primary form of social media activism. YouTube was an important tool for OFA and Obama in 2008. For a long time, Twitter was the best platform for cross-platform virality -- that is, a video on Twitter would be more likely to spread to other platforms than vice-versa. TikTok was Number Two in this category a year ago when I observed netroots activists discussing how to adapt to Elon Musk's Twitter. The war over TikTok is really about ownership of the power to spread ideas.
Ryan, you need to wrap your mind around the difference between "anti-jewish" and "anti-Isreali". Then rethink this video. Consider reaching out to some "peer reviewers" or something to help you provide balanced analysis in one video insted of making several additional videos to pick up the pieces from the initial effort.
Nevertheless this was a great video an much needed. The initial effort was still rough around the edges.
Sorry maybe I just missed it.. at what point in this video did he make the claim that being anti-Israel is the same as being anti-Jewish? I didn't hear that part.
You are correct that he did not explicitly make that connection. He did make a poor analogy comparing racism in the USA with antisemitic/anti-Israeli sentiment. Someone that disagrees with Jews that support the far right policies of the current Israeli government is not anti-Jewish or racist. They could be considered centrist or leftist but not racist. The Israeli electorate is polarized much in the same way the USA is; these false divisions do nothing but perpetuate the conflict. They serve no purpose towards resolution of the problems they only serve to divide; which keeps their political status quo in power/place......just like here.
Let me ask you this: If you were Jewish and wore a yarmaluke, would you feel safe walking by one of these protests?
I guarantee you that a lot of these people are racist. I've even considered taking off the Star of David necklace my old girlfriend gave me because I don't want to go looking for trouble.
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-israel-hamas-ucla-penn-genocide-057006125279
Yes there is a very substantial difference between being anti-Israel and “anti-Jewish”. People calling for destruction of Israel make it rather clear that they will treat Israeli Arabs, Druze and everyone else living there as just as much as subject to cleansing as their main target.
It’s also pretty clear that professional hate mongers have long since realized that they can use “anti-Israel” as a dogwhistle - in that line of thought, you can spin the most asinine bigotry and lies as long as you remember to footnote those antisemitic claims with “we’re not antisemitic, just anti-Israel”.
When their basic platform includes a thorough genocide, and they have historically targeted civilians - including civilians with no connection to Israel as well as civilians with a history of opposition to Israeli methods - it becomes clear this is nothing but sophistry designed to target people with diminished capacity for logic and basic fact checking. That’s what usually happens when you try to engage those kids on facts they think they know: it ends up with denial, lots of huffing, calling you a “paid agent” and usually a ban.
This is a very different kind of release from you, Ryan. I appreciate the additional perspective you've offered in these increasingly confusing and complex times. I was out of work through most of COVID and felt less *intentionally* confined and restricted and more a victim of lack of employment than confinement due to COVID. Before now, I never considered how COVID would have remarkably changed my college experience had it happened in that stage of my life. Gives me pause.
Ryan, the reason kids are protesting with mask is simple. Like all kids throughout history, they are doing it because their friends are doing it. It’s the latest fashion trend for this type of protest.
Politicians and people like to blame TikTok for our issues, because it’s easier than looking at ourselves and taking stock of the society we have created.
Calling for a cease fire is a long way from calling for the destruction of Isreal.
Greetings Ryan…
Is there a way to determine if any of the recent college demonstrations were organized using the methods outlined in your ‘TikTok is a Cyberweapon’ video?
Both sides have very nice people. When such moral visionaries as David Duke, nick fuentes, Putin, Tucker, ayatollahs and Taliban - conscience of our generation - come out in full support of one side here, I’m fairly sure I know where my cards will fall
https://youtu.be/AYdvsBnVkjI?si=jCFD3_wfZCLg3SEl
It seems the pro Israeli crowd borrowed ideas from the Jan 6 rioters. Flag poles as weapons.
I agree. That's always been the case, to be honest.
To me, it seems that it always boiled down to the wanting to belong and the wanting to be relevant. Our small social communities for better or worse managed the extremes in certain kind of behavior and supressed the outliers. A double edged swordy thingy topic if you consider free speech to be important.
The internet opened up the access to finding a community for everyone regardless of their ideas and without getting bullied they can "belong to", regardless of their ideas.
At first, to me that sounded like progress - no repressing thoughts. Now? Not so sure where to draw the line between "free thinking" and "allowing toxic thoughts to flourish". Because where do we draw the line, coming from a "no thought police" stance, between "fine" and "oh god please no lock that person up right now"?
I didn't add paragraphs and blank lines on purpose, because.. well.. a rant with blank lines and paragraphs for readability is to be honest so very not 2024. (edit: added blank lines. it was absolutely unreadable)
Another thing the internet ruined: Folks like me thinking they can confer wisdom to the "unthinking depths" - by itself a quite stupid and arrogant idea of me.
Sorry.
PS: Which is interesting.. how easy the mass of opinions enables anyone to just disregard anything not aligning to their thinking. Ha. I might have been slightly wise there. Maybe.
All Media has the power to influence therefore can be used as a weapon 🔫
We've all done it in the past its just the Internet has changed the game from one to multi dimensional
I recognize that racism is ubiquitous so I will not argue whether there were any racists in the crowd. Reports from local NYC and student media outlets (along with NPR) indicate there were Jewish students among those arrested at the protest and that the racism claims may have been exaggerated or fabricated. Since I know there were jews there at the pro-palestine protest I would not feel any more unsafe walking past than I would at any other protest.
I haven’t heard any racism claims. Just calls for genocidal violence, ethnic cleansing and such. Enough to have Columbia tell their Jewish students to stay off campus for their own safety.
Those calls for genocide, etc., were not observed by the Jewish students and faculty at the protests and interviewed by local press in stories I have read online. Doesn't mean it didn;t happen or couldn't happen but it could also be an attempt to create a narrative beneficial for a University just in the crosshairs of the US Congress.
Here is some. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6HBHWxrKbi/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link There’s is a whole lot more explicit, violent bigotry at these events then at a klan rally. It’s pretty hard to argue against all evidence, considering that ethnic cleansing is a foundational principle of Hamas.
It’s like there was a public rally demanding wholesale lynchings and folks would be going around questioning whether non-white families in the area have any real reason to feel threatened.
Indeed. If those are accurate translations and video from the NYC protests, I agree with you. I have to rely on interpreters for that and I won't discount the possibility that a movie star/internet personality has fallen victim to some DIP...
It appears Ryan should keep busy on this topic for a while. Lots of disinformation about the protesters....https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-israel-hamas-ucla-penn-genocide-057006125279