TikTok Appoints Ex-IDF Solider as its 'Hate Speech Manager'
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Looks like a great time to continue never using TikTok.
It ushered in an era of drastically falling attention spans and fostered increased device addiction. It was never good.
It also allowed protestors to be tracked and spread misinformation in a way we had never seen. It was the problem.
We need better alternatives, something that's definitely not under control of some business
Are there a lot of active gen z protestors relative to other generations near you? Iβm on the younger end of millennials, and where I live I see way more people older than me at protests than people younger than me or close to my age. Maybe just a quirk of my city I guess.
Older millennial, and ditto. It's mostly older, with a smattering of 30-somethings with their kids
source? bc gen z over here are doing just fine using the usual stuff
Gen Z already had the internet. They could've shared shit at any time and hosted it as long as they wanted after the media attention without using TikTok.
The bad outweighs the good. Fuck TikTok all the way. Hated it from the very beginning when it was called Musically.
Thatβs a different way of saying βTikTok appoints Israeli as its Hate Speech Manager.β IDF service is mandatory.
You can still refuse. You'd have to sit in prison, but that's worth it at this point
Definitely. But everyone who is alive who has held Israeli citizenship is either an (ick) IDF soldier, or is (like this person) an ex-IDF soldier.
Although that makes me think: do those who have already started rabbinical training also need to do their 2 years?
I'm Israeli, didn't do military service, knew many people who also didn't do it.
don't get me wrong, the IDF wants you to join, but if you don't want to, they can't make you
This is not true. Haredi jews were exempt from the draft until last year. And Arabs Muslims or Chrisrians, even if they are citizens, are not drafted at all.
Is it mandatory for woman?
TIL, thanks
Yeah.
Mandatory or not, a past committing genocide and being taught to see people of a certain nationality as inherently subhuman while going all in on DARVO gaslighting should still exclude you from being in charge of anything related to bigotry and hate speech.
I agree. Is that the case with this person?
I know a few ex-IDF soldiers. One served from 1967-69 in Records hunting down artwork stolen by the Nazis. Went on to become a professor who taught world literature. Left Israel in the 70s to live and work somewhere more multicultural. Still not someone Iβd recommend for this position, but βex-IDFβ covers a lot of people, some of whom might be very qualified for the position.
Right? Very politically charged title. Death to the IDF and all, but come on.
I mean... who else has more experience with hate speech?
People wearing red hats.
It's probably a tie.
A too-long red tie
he's the perfect hate speech manager, because I already hate him