• jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Doesn’t most of the momentum on the tiktok ban predate oct 7th?

    • Ericthescruffy [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      6 months ago

      Yeah…TBH this seems more like either:

      A) The thing that caused them to expedite something they already wanted to do.

      B) This is less the quiet part out loud and more the thing they are allowed to say out loud in public. Like its more palatable and acceptable to call this the “end hamas grooming act” as opposed to the “Facebook and Meta relief act”.

      I think both are probably actual motivations that overlap.