what's frustrating is that the massive freakout and censorship spree post 2016 is exactly why tiktok is able to dominate us social media in the first place. we've been able to wield american media as a weapon for the last 80 years because it was objectively better and more trusted than its competitors, we now find ourselves in the position of the soviets where our stuff just isn't as good and we have to censor competitors off our internet. the answer unironically is just to let people call each other nigger and faggots again and just roll back all content algorithms to like 2014 or so.
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