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TikTok is censoring the words “Epstein” and “ICE” — and that alone should tell you how fast political censorship just arrived in America. Over the past several days, users across the US have reported that messages containing the word “Epstein” are blocked outright, flagged as violations of TikTok’s Community Guidelines.
Videos critical of Donald Trump or documenting ICE raids and protests — including in Minneapolis — are reportedly being buried, throttled, or left sitting at zero views.
This didn’t happen in a vacuum.It happened less than a week after TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, was forced to hand over majority control of its US operations to a group of American investors aligned with Trump.
Since that takeover, the censorship complaints have piled up fast. Not rumors. Not fringe users. Elected officials are saying it out loud.
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a state-level probe into whether TikTok is violating state law by suppressing Trump-critical content. “It’s time to investigate,” he wrote publicly, after screenshots circulated showing the word “Epstein” being blocked outright.
State Senator Scott Wiener went further. He says a TikTok video he posted explaining legislation that would allow people to sue ICE agents was effectively shadow-banned — stuck at zero views while other content performed normally. “TikTok is now state-controlled media,” Wiener said.
TikTok’s response? A familiar corporate shrug.
The company claims the issues are the result of a “major infrastructure” failure caused by a power outage at a US data center, triggering cascading system errors — slower loads, missing views, blocked posts, vanishing engagement.
But here’s the problem: infrastructure failures don’t selectively block politically sensitive words. Power outages don’t mysteriously suppress criticism of the sitting president or footage of federal law enforcement raids.
What we’re watching isn’t a bug. It’s a stress test.
A platform with more than 200 million American users just changed hands — and almost immediately, discussion of elite scandal and state violence started disappearing.
This is what soft censorship looks like in 2026. No bans. No police at the door. Just invisible throttles, muted keywords, and a public square quietly fenced in behind the scenes.
You don’t lose democracy all at once.
You lose it word by word.
Remember to check on your representatives!
They’re old and stupid. Please remind them that they are supposed to be beholden to the public.
Section 230 keeps tumblr from getting in trouble because of something a user says
Example: Shlorbort the tumblr user says “I want to shoot [political figure]! Here’s a photo of the gun I’ll use!
With section 230: only the poster gets in trouble.
Without section 230: poster and tumblr get in trouble and the government will probably try to moderate out all the anti government stuff.
Update on Age Verification Bills
Keep calling your reps and call Cruz and the CST Committee to oppose KOSA, KOSMA, and other censorship bills [contains quote post or other
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"'We are certainly looking to move forward with KOSA and COPPA 2.0 and KOSMA altogether.'"
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More than ever should we start calling our reps and senators and oppose these horrible age verification bills
As always stay calm, don't fall for doomerism, defeatism, and always keep hope.
Cruz: 202-224-5922
Republicans: 202-224-1251
Democrats: 202-224-0411
Will never cease being confounded and befuddled why people "censor" cuss words by only hiding 1-2 letters, ESPECIALLY in non-text-searchable screencaps. Like, what purpose does this serve??? Are you looking for plausible deniability if an elementary schooler scrolls your meme archive who hasn't yet learned cuss words? Are you genuinely trying to be thoughtful but forget that the human brain is excellent at (involuntarily) filling in blanks?? Are you trying to evade being blocked by filters (again, on a media that filters cannot search because the text is a picture)???
One facebook page I follow doesnt even cover the whole letters, there's just a line THROUGH THE MIDDLE of the two middle letters, like do you truly think we can't instantly solve this puzzle??? On one hand I want to appreciate the effort, but it can start feeling more like you're trying to get away with something (again, what???) than make things more enjoyable for those with more sensitive sensibilities.
If you're going to take the time ANYWAY (to which I say thank you, truly), please. I beg you. Just block the whole word. I'd even be okay with all but the first letter (we still know what it IS, but my eye is marginally less active about filling in the blanks without a first AND last letter). I beseech thee to move beyond this perplexing Emperor's New Clothes method of censorship.
Begging y'all to stop censoring posts. "But they'll flag my post!" Ok? Who gives a shit?
Let them flag the whole ass website. Let every account get flagged. Wheeee flag us all motherfuckers! Censored posts for miles, babey!
We need to show them we aren't going to give in to their censoring. Stop censoring yourself.
Fuck fuck fuck. Death and destruction and murder and torture and sex and R rated movies and XXX porn! Sins of lust and greed and gluttony and wrath and pride and whatever the other ones are.
If you're 18+ and you want to have your titties out on the internet, go ahead.
The only thing that needs to be censored is for #minorsDNI and hiding your face/identity for safety reasons.
Do not censor your content. Show them you don't care about their advertisers or their stupid ass policies. Fuck them.
We need to start talking about how much the FIA and Formula 1 official accounts are censoring the drivers and the fans. It is so frustrating that we keep having to talk about how much the FIA have been censoring drivers especially after all the drama at the start of 2025.
I remember talking about how creepy it was that Max got approached by MBS right after Jeddah 2025 and told to shut up and not mention anything bad about the FIA after his penalty. You could see the exact moment he went from celebrating to so pissed off that he was barely talking in the cool down room. I think that was the first instance where everyone started realizing what was happening.
It has only gotten worse from then on, we already know that almost all the drivers don't like the new regulations, they've said so publicly but the FIA is now taking those clips out from the official press conference before posting them.
They also deleted and hid almost a thousand tweets from fans criticizing the new regs because they didn't want the want those tweets gaining relevance.
So on one hand they're trying to say that they introduced these new regs so racing can be fun to watch for the fans. On the other hand they're actively hiding criticism from the fans clearly saying they did not enjoy the racing.
They clearly don't care about opinions of the drivers and they are also silencing them so they can't speak about it. We need to stop letting these guys dictate rules when they themselves can't even drive these cars and they don't care about the fans experience. Its so hypocritical that it seems funny until its really not.