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Award-winning Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda has said she has been permanently banned from TikTok, days after the social media platform was acquired by new investors in the United States.

Owda, an Emmy Award-winning journalist and contributor to Al Jazeera’s AJ+ from Gaza, shared a video on her Instagram and X accounts on Wednesday, telling her followers that her TikTok account had been banned.

Netanyahu met with pro-Israel influencers in New York in September last year, telling them that he hoped the “purchase” of TikTok goes through.

“We have to fight with the weapons that apply to the battlefield in which we engage, and the most important ones are social media,” Netanyahu, who is a war crimes suspect, said at the time.

“The most important purchase that is going on right now is … TikTok,” Netanyahu added. “TikTok, number one, number one, and I hope it goes through, because it can be consequential.”

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This is what American free speech looks like

[–] psoul@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago
[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Don't forget what they did to TikTok when they come for "social media".

Lemmy could be next.

[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Unlike TikTok, Lemmy is distributed across a federation of independent servers, so any server that adopts a radically pro-Israel stance could simply be defederated.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Well, I think the bigger risk is them going after those that host with bad legislation. Perhaps even those that participate. Yes we can defederate. Though when they or any other parties vanguard come to assault, jail, or murder you for BS violations. Using the states monopoly on violence. It's not that effective. And that is 100% where this will go. You will use only government approved options they can monitor under severe penalty.