Post #2193685 · Elektrine

@Qbitzerre@unbound.social 2025-08-21 08:31

@Xeniax@mastodon.ml this seems like what people in China have been doing for decades. The Machine does not quit.

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@AleF2050@livellosegreto.it 2025-08-21 08:33

@Xeniax@mastodon.ml Genius! The ICE be damned...

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@pedroleitao@masto.pt 2025-08-21 09:41

@Xeniax@mastodon.ml this is brilliant and probably the only way to fight back now.

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@jackeric@beige.party 2025-08-21 11:36

@Xeniax@mastodon.ml This is genius and I'm calling for an immediate review of all the other censor-evading terms. Instead of "unalive", why not "Boeing"?

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@EchteNachtraaf@mastodon.social 2025-08-21 12:08

@Xeniax@mastodon.ml i have called violence "angry moshing" on meta before to get through similar censorship. I hate that we have to do it but I love how people are finding language to do it. This is the Insta version of the image I was afraid would get taken down for calling for violence btw 🙃

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@Oldmikie@mastodon.social 2025-08-21 12:36

@Xeniax@mastodon.ml I disagree. Social Media and the MSM are focused on whatever new shiny thing that will generate the clicks. 2 weeks ago it was the Epstein files. Then it was Texas gerrymandering, Then it was the DC takeover. Climate Change, education, healthcare, honesty, integrity, ethics are dull and difficult problems that take a long time to resolve and users have short attention spans.

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@cjd@pkteerium.xyz 2025-08-21 13:50

I haven't seen those videos, and I'm quite confident the fediverse doesn't censor practically anything - so is it just that the people I follow don't care? In any case, it's a clever trick...

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@FredricT@mastodon.opportunis.me 2025-08-21 14:01

@Xeniax@mastodon.ml poke @GeoffreyDorne@mastodon.social It should interest you 😉

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@dantalion@fosstodon.org 2025-08-21 14:06

@Xeniax@mastodon.ml I love the LA music festival!

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@wall_e@ioc.exchange 2025-08-21 14:14

@Xeniax@mastodon.ml it's like straight out of a Cory Doctorow novel 😄

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@mick@cosocial.ca 2025-08-21 14:16

@Xeniax@mastodon.ml the LA Music Festival posts are spreading (mostly) misinformation about the size and quantity of these protests. Videos frequently include BLM protests, ai fabrications, etc. Users that believe they are sidestepping algorithmic suppression of massive, violent demonstrations are engaging with a conspiracy theory. It might be an attempt at algorithmic resistance, but it is more revealing of our fractured information landscape. Still cyberpunk af, but in the bad, cautionary way.

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@hosford42@techhub.social 2025-08-21 14:40

@Xeniax@mastodon.ml Reminds me of a post about gnomes with orange hats I read about the other day!

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@Samuelrod@mastodon.social 2025-08-21 14:48

@Xeniax@mastodon.ml explain

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@solonovamax@tech.lgbt 2025-08-21 14:56

@Xeniax@mastodon.ml tbh the main problem I have with this is that it's taking place on tiktok sure, I love it for the people who use tiktok, but me personally I refuse to ever touch that platform with a 10 metre pole

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@schrottkatze@mastodon.catgirl.cloud 2025-08-21 15:41

@Xeniax@mastodon.ml when berlin music festival :pleading_cat_collar:

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@nev@status.nevillepark.ca 2025-08-21 16:18

@Xeniax@mastodon.ml Original source (August 8, 2025). tl;dr: likely pre-emptive censorship; be careful not to speculate in comments, tumblr user afriendofblahaj links this YT video by Etymology Nerd, who says there is actually little evidence TikTok is censoring or silencing content about anti-ICE protests, but that the "festival" tag is an interesting example of people both pre-emptively self-censoring and finding like-minded people using euphemistic code words. he's quoted similarly in this Axios post about Washington, DC "music festivals", which notes that TikTok does not formally prohibit protest content. (Here's another article with some comments & statements from TikTok users.) TikTok recently announced they're revamping their Community Guidelines. Mashable's breakdown notes: The section on Misinformation, nestled in Integrity and Authenticity, is mostly the same but with some language edits. For example, the previous guidelines state that unverified information about emergencies is ineligible for the For You Feed; the new ones say the same about "crises and major civic events." People are speculating this may be a response to content about current protests, but I doubt TikTok will say anything explicitly. What I would want to know before boosting this: is there actual evidence certain tags or content are being de-prioritized or silenced, or are people just anticipating it? E. g. can you still find useful information about protests on relevant tags/are people's posts about protests not showing up for followers? Note: this particular screenshot was posted by "The Shitposting Robot" on Facebook (August 13, 2025). This is a page that uses Facebook's paid subscription option to make money off of screenshotting other people's posts, watermarking them, and posting them without credit, links, dates, or other context. You can decide for yourself whether this is a trustworthy source of information. Postscript on research methods: I found the original source by Googling (with udm=14) "thewitchoftheweed"+"la music festival", although searching for the first sentence in quotes also brings up many reblogs (which all have links to the original, because of how Tumblr reblogging works). I found the articles by Googling "TikTok festival censorship", clicking the News tab, and using the "Tools" menu to sort by date instead of relevancy. (Query.) I found the original Facebook post of the screenshot by Googling "the shitposting robot", finding the Facebook page, and going through their photos from Aug. 8 (the original post's publication date) onwards.

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@Pajamajapes@denden.world 2025-08-21 19:39

@Xeniax@mastodon.ml That's so awesome, extremely heartening really

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@ccunning@mastodon.world 2025-08-21 20:32

@Xeniax@mastodon.ml Thrilled people found a workaround but it just highlights the issues with TikTok

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@Aedius@lavraievie.social 2025-08-21 21:22

@Xeniax@mastodon.ml Looks like China to me.

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@alter_kaker@hachyderm.io 2025-08-21 21:30

@Xeniax@mastodon.ml why haven't we seen any of it here?