How Gen Z is taking the fight for their rights from TikTok to the streets

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https://www.rfi.fr/en/international/20251002-how-gen-z-is-taking-the-fight-from-tiktok-to-the-streets

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/50147181

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Siegehammer85@lemmy.world

Fighting to keep a weapon that makes the population dumber, spreads misinformation, destroys attention span and is a Chinese government surveillance tool….

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celeste@kbin.earth

The article is about how they’re connecting over injustices on social media and building huge movements based on it. Tiktok is just being used as a shorthand in the headline.

I don’t disagree with you about what tiktok is. Just that you seemed to be saying that the article was about gen z protesting for access to tiktok, when the article was actually more about what has connected a number of seemingly varied protest movements around the world.

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