Post #2340218

2023-03-24 19:33 UTC

The xenophobia of the TikTok ban, the hysteria over section 230 which protects speech online, the denial of women&#39;s health care in the overturning of Roe, the attacks on teachers and book bans, the persecution of LGBTQ people, the freakouts over drag ... all these things are the SAME THING: rising American fascism. They&#39;re all perfectly in line with a white supremacist, patriarchal view of America. Every day we pretend fascism can&#39;t happen here is a day it gets one step closer.

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@fraying@xoxo.zone 2023-03-24 23:51

If you pick just one thing to focus on from my previous post, you’re missing the point. They’re all part of the same thing. The fascists are our enemy. Don’t fight with each other. Fight them.

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@acm_redfox@jawns.club 2023-03-24 20:14

@fraying@xoxo.zone Worse, I believe it's rising but feel helpless to stop it!

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@BlippyTheWonderSlug@social.cologne 2023-03-24 20:30

@fraying@xoxo.zone

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@lightyourmind@me.dm 2023-03-24 20:40

@fraying@xoxo.zone in terms of TikTok and social media in general, we need better Data Protection mechanisms and regulations; We can acknowledge the problem of TikTok and CCP’s relationship and how it’s a state tool for foreign intel collection, without being xenophobic. The attempt to label talking out against TikTok as xenophobic is at best counterproductive, at worst malicious.

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@JJPeterson@toot.community 2023-03-24 23:01

@fraying@xoxo.zone all of those things are not like the others. The right to bodily autonomy and healthcare, and teenagers right to use an app the Chinese government bans their own citizens from using are not the same. Just fcking stop.

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@hughster@mastodon.social 2023-03-24 23:22

@fraying@xoxo.zone I'm not sure arguments for banning TikTok and altering Section 230 have much to do with the rest of these things (all of which are certainly far right in nature). Both have their advocates on both sides of the aisle. It's certainly not true that all the worry about TikTok is xenophobia, and it's not exactly the case that Section 230 protects speech online either. Important not to fall into the trap of polarising every issue. EDIT: This was an unnecessarily overbearing reply. Sorry.

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@StevenBarnhart@mastodon.social 2023-03-25 00:50

@fraying@xoxo.zone @shantini@techhub.social it’s not xenophobic when the problem is the Chinese government with evidence of constant abuses and the control they have over companies. It has nothing to do with the Chinese people except to simpletons and Chinese regime sympathizers.

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