Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage for shutdown

Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by internetter on Friday January 17, 2025 @06:19PM (#42744274)

> Either everyone is 3x as likely to comment on it as usual or something else is different. Ijs.

Or maybe this story is hugely relevant to a lot more people than your average story? I find it hard to believe china is waging a huge phsyop on HN

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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by horrible-hilde on Friday January 17, 2025 @06:30PM (#42744349)

The “it cant happen to here” is strong in America. I saw a guy videotaping the palisades fire instead of packing and vacating. People thinks it only happens in the movies but on my time on earth reality is far stranger than fiction

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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by madrox on Friday January 17, 2025 @06:23PM (#42744298)

I find it easy to believe. If Russia can run a psyop to sway opinion towards supporting their interests why can’t China? HN is hardly some tiny unknown forum.

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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by internetter on Friday January 17, 2025 @06:33PM (#42744369)

HN is absolutely a tiny unknown forum. To my understanding, it has around 5 million or so uniques monthly. By contrast, Instagram has 2 billion registered active users, and it’s only the 4th most popular

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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by ethbr1 on Friday January 17, 2025 @06:38PM (#42744408)

Psyop is probably an overly sophisticated term. Garbage-spam is more apropos.

E.g. Fox News comments are that are base-level "Nunh unh!" or argumentless boosting.

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