Well that backfired on Ethan
Non tracking link:
https://www.tiktok.com/@hasandpiker/video/7503700225798819103
No problem. In the future copy and open the link in a browser (I use Firefox on Android), then copy that link and delete everything after the question mark. You doxxed your tiktok account to anyone who opened the original tracking link fyi
@CyborgMarx@hexbear.net you can disable that “feature” somewhere in the settings under Privacy > Suggest your account to others > People who open or send links to you, but the tracking links do a lot more than just reveal the account
Do you happen to know if any privacy frontends work for tiktok like invidious does for youtube? I use LibRedirect for everything I can, but it only displays proxitok, which hasn’t worked for well over a year, and offtiktok, which doesn’t seem to have any public instances listed. So I’m guessing there just is no frontend landscape for tiktok like there is for youtube, reddit, etc.?
Sorry to ask you out of the blue, but it sounds like you might be well versed in this kind of thing.
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker/
if youre in android, the URLchecker app is really helpful for cleaning links, it acts as your default browser so links are opened in an editable form, and you jump into a regular browser from there. Ihighly recommend it
not sure about the security of it though 🤷♀️
He’s so handsome 🤩
Hasan is blowing up—
Not beating the terrorism allegations, Mr. Piker!
Now hold on a moment there, officer! I never said what he was blowing, he could be blowing balloons for the May Day parade!
Wait. Hold on. Do we know this actually happened? Were there other witnesses? He is, first and foremost, a celebrity and entertainer. He is a man in show business. And a left wing commentator being detained? That’s an obvious ratings booster. How do we know this isn’t just the stunt of an entertainer?
Just doing due diligence. How do we know this actually happened?
He did call other people to let them know what was happening while he was being lead away, so unless you think they’re all in on the conspiracy. He’s already rich and extremely well known. He just interviewed Jean-Luc Mélenchon of the French parliament. There’s no incentive.
How would they know he’s not just calling them and lying to them? He could have easily called or messaged people and said he was being lead away.
Celebrities of his stature have performed stunts before. The incentive would be the very ratings explosion that he’s getting now. A ratings explosions means a revenue explosion. More ad revenue. More interview opportunities. More sponsors and donations. He’s making money off of this. And I would not try to argue that he’s already so well-off he’s above wanting more money. When has that ever actually worked?
it’s just way way more likely that he’s not lying. he doesn’t have a history of bullshit stuntmaking, the government is doing this, and it’s just not a big enough boost to his attention that it would be enticing enough to lie. Looking at this tikok, it has 1.9 million views, and his channel has 44.2 million likes and TikTok almost always stays very close to 10 views per Like, meaning he has half a billion views on just his tikok. Making a huge, risky demonstrable lie to get half a percent across this and a couple other platforms just doesn’t make sense. Just flying out of the country and missing 2 days of streaming probably lost more money than this story brought
What would constitute proof? We can’t rely on Hasan’s word. We can’t rely on the word of the people around him because he may be deceiving them. What would prove it to you? He couldn’t film it. He wasn’t arrested so there’s no public log. We can’t get the video footage from the airport. He wasn’t cited, so no paper trail there.
It’s okay to be skeptical but you have to think further than just asking questions. You want proof but how do you get it? How do you validate the proof? If it’s too difficult to get the evidence you need, then what do you do about it?
is it really implausible that a dude named hasan is getting detained by tsa lol
Implausible, no. But I’m also inherently skeptical of any unverified event that someone has the ability and strong financial incentive to invent from whole cloth. I don’t care how perfect you think his politics are. Never trust anyone who tells you everything you want to hear.
Yeah everyone here thinks Hasan is perfect and tells us everything we want to hear. You type weird
as someone with a middle eastern name, i promise you, it’s really not unbelievable at all that this happened, in addition to him being who he is.
i would honestly say you’re naive to think this is so unlikely to happen that you assume its fake
whats more likely? hasan, who doesnt need more viewers or money lying about something to get viewers and money?
or america being fascist and racist the way it has been for forever?
He did show the pamphlet DHS provided mentioning dhs.gov/dhs-trip on the stream.
Edit :
DHS themselves admitted there was an “inspection” but not much beyond that.
When asked for comment about Piker, a Department of Homeland Security official called his account “nothing but lying for likes.”
“Claims that his political beliefs triggered the inspection are baseless,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. “Our officers are following the law, not agendas. Upon entering the country, this individual was referred for further inspection — a routine, lawful process that occurs daily, and can apply for any traveler. Once his inspection was complete, he was promptly released.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hasan-piker-twitch-streamer-questioned-us-customs-rcna206406
“Our officers are following the law, not agendas.”
Laws are written by politicians, who have political agendas; therefore, following the law is following a political agenda.
Nah he wouldn’t lie about this and does not need the boost. They would absolutely do this, and if he made it up it’s actually very likely that some groyper in the administration would reveal that it never happened
I find it believable because:
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Other journalists have already been arrested for their views on Palestine like Richard Medhurst and Ali Abunimah. Abunimah got pretty close to being disappeared into a black site in Switzerland.
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Some Muslim dude named Hasan being “randomly” selected for further inspection by TSA is a sadly mundane event that isn’t even news.
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Hasan has appeared in various mainstream Zionist publications like Haaretz in a very “will no one rid me of this turbulent priest” way. I personally think Hasan needs to worry about security and have an escape plan to leave the US.
okay but he was obviously only taken aside because he kept triggering the metal detector with all his goofy ass thumb rings and pukashells and other assorted accessory bullshit.
