Tiktok is the absolute worst at irrational censorship. It’s a shame because the site is immensely popular and that means it is full of very interesting content. Yet, this is far from the first unreasonable thing they’ve been removing. It’s well known how Tiktok users came up with alternative words to circumvent words that were likely to get their content removed (e.g., “unalived” instead of “killed”).
Whenever TikTok sees something that is remotely negative, they will fight at all cost to make sure it doesn’t exist on their platform. I have seen TikTok videos having to censor the word “orphanage” because according to TikTok that is a no-no word LOL
What happened to unfiltered free speech on twitter?
This is an article about TikTok.
It’s “Don’t tread on me”. Not, “Don’t tread on others”
“Leave me alone”
**OPPRESSION!!!1
If you get your medical information from TikTok you really have far bigger problems.
Its more of an accessibility concern, people shouldn’t be getting medical info fully from TikTok but it’s a good way to disseminate basic info
Bigger problems like the republicans and other far-right parties attacking reproductive rights? Yeah, you’re right.
That is not the topic at discussion.
Yes it is. Why do you think thah TikTok removes that content in the first place? It 's because they are afraid to give paranoid, xenophobic, republicans any “reason” to ban them.
I actuallyethink that you are trying to derail the discussion into “you showld never trust tiktok”.
TikTok is a cancer that always does this. It is a tool for censorship, propaganda and population control. You should never use TikTok. It is extremely unethical to do so.
Chinese government spyware disappears content it doesn’t like. This shocking news and more at 11.
The chinese government doesn’t have any say in tiktok. Tiktok isn’t even available in china. This is an attemt to please repuplican politicians all the way.
Correction: The PRC owns 1% and has one person in the board of directors of bytedance. Still: the fearmongering against the chinese government is just a smokescreen to draw attention away from the NSA.
Whatever. Let’s not pretend that authoritarian China doesn’t have its tentacles in the country’s business operations to steer everything to its will.
I’m seriously not a fan of China. But thinking that neoliberal western “democracies” are way less authoritarian is just a delusion.
Fair point. Many such places are just committing atrocities in a different configuration.
Given TikTok’s precarious situation, it’s no surprise they’re going out of their way to bend to the whims of US politics. Face it, there are a lot of Republicans ready to justify banning TikTok by pointing to teenagers getting abortion advice from the platform.
There are plenty of other reasons to ban TikTok, namely the massive and unchecked data collection by the Chinese government.
I’d prefer not to install Chinese spyware, thankyouverymuch.
It is not the chinese government you should be worried about, my friend.
Blah, blah, I hear the same tired argument over and over again about how Google, Facebook, Amazon are just as bad as China. But, it’s just not true.
These large corps are definitely something we should paying attention to and they get away with far too much. They should be broken up just like Ma Bell. But, they are still subject to the same data restrictions that the US and the EU have put into law.
TikTok, on the other hand, is owned by a Chinese company, and by extension, the Chinese government. Any data it collects goes straight to the Chinese government. ByteDance, of course, denies this, but the US military, CIA, and other government entities know better, as they have specifically banned the platform for any of their personnel. The data tracking permissions you have to allow on phones is far higher than any other social media platform. It’s a more aggressive data collection platform.
TikTok serves a wildly different set of media to the non-Chinese public. It wants to dumb down the non-Chinese population by serving addictive short-form content that hones in on their interests, in a more extreme fashion than any other social media platform, and gets them into a constant loop of video watching for hours and hours.
The CIA has banned that stuff because their employees are high value targets for chinese intelligence agencies.
You don’t have any data collection restrictions in the US (thanks to the patrion act).
Law enforcement has coplete access to the ring doorbell cameras. Google and Facebook have repeatedly worked together with the CIA and FBI. It has been established that the US elections have been tampered with via targeted advertising in combination with misinformation. As a regular US citizen, you are simply not a target for China. The US government however has repeatedly proven that it spies on foreign and their own citieens.
And all that “dumbing down” conspiracy theory: It is far more likely that a profit driven corporation simply optimizes for maximum engagement for ad revenue.
But when I google tacos I get ads of tacos and that’s just as bad as the Chinese government choosing the content I get to see on the internet
Yeah. The chinese government clearly wants you to see as many ads for some shitty car or makeup or whatnot. That’s definetly the CCP and not some Ad company who pays ByteDance. /s
