Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://status.nevillepark.ca/@nev" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nev</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.ml/@Xeniax" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Xeniax</span></a></span></p><p>i understand why people use <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tikTok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tikTok</span></a>:</p><p>easy to use, works, the immediacy of video</p><p>but it's controlled by a totalitarian govt</p><p>and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/jeffYass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jeffYass</span></a></p><p>the largest <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> donor</p><p>who also funded an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>israel</span></a> right wing think tank to help <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/netanyahu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>netanyahu</span></a> stay in power</p><p>when someone posts pro-<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>palestine</span></a> content or anti-<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> content to tik tok:</p><p>1. they are feeding what they are fighting</p><p>2. they are abrogating their privacy to their enemy</p><p>3. they trust their foe to control their content and their feed</p>