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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/59392382
TikTok wants users to believe that errors blocking uploads of anti-ICE videos or direct messages mentioning Jeffrey Epstein are due to technical errors—not the platform seemingly shifting to censor content critical of Donald Trump after he hand-picked the US owners who took over the app last week.
However, experts say that TikTok users’ censorship fears are justified, whether the bugs are to blame or not.
Ioana Literat, an associate professor of technology, media, and learning at Teachers College, Columbia University, has studied TikTok’s politics since the app first shot to popularity in the US in 2018. She told Ars that “users’ fears are absolutely justified” and explained why the “bugs” explanation is “insufficient.”
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Find. Another. Service.
TikTok is dead — just like Twitter. I don’t understand people who cling to these services. Might as well post on MySpace while you’re at it.
If you are uninstalling, you can try the federated alternative: loops
Try UpScrolled. It ranks higher than TicToc and claims to be politically neutral.
Or Loops? The federated, no special interests version of TikTok. You’re already on lemmy, why advocate for yet another corporate social media company?
What? MySpace never tried to topple a democracy.
Remember when MySpace was owned by Rupert Murdoch? Wikipedia remembers…
Most of us were teens during the 2000s. No one with fond memories of Myspace knew who Murdoch was.
Also, he only owned it for the latter half of the decade before it got sold off again.
Oh, I guess that means it never happened then. 🙄
This is TikTok in America as managed by Larry Ellison and the US government btw. They Iron Curtained y’all.
Balderdash! That type of stuff only happens in dictatorships.
Next you’ll be telling me there’s a bunch of masked Gestapo goons running around shooting innocent people and kidnapping non whites…That type of stuff only happens in shit-hole countries - FTFY.
Nothing to do with the fact that Larry Ellison is a jew and the largest individual contributor to Israel, right?
Everything to do with it because TikTok is bad for Western imperialist optics and radicalised the youth as the genocide in Gaza was getting livestreamed. Nothing religious or ethnic though, this is just a money move. 🤷
Wow, a bug that specifically automatically chose keywords like “ICE”, and “epstein”, then blocked them from appearing, while leaving literally all other content unharmed??? How conveniently specific and well-timed! /s
Lol, that’s not how it fucking works.
Key words like that don’t just accidentally get filtered out with a “bug”.
Why doesn’t anyone see this for what it is. They put monitoring for certain keywords but fucked up the code and it blocked some users through incompetence. They fixed the filters, but I guarantee they are sending reports to the White House…
Ironic that an app monitored and controlled by the Chinese communist party allowed more freedom of speech for Americans. How the turn tables.
Yeah. Right.
“If you get caught, call it a bug.” seems to happen a lot this administration.
My bet is they tweak the backend instead to derank content they don’t like softly next.
They’re already doing that. There are reports that content from the DNC isn’t being served anymore, even to subscribers.
Maybe—and I’m going out on a limb here—just maybe, using centralized media to document State-sponsored domestic terrorism is a fucking stupid idea. Especially since the very same platform is co-owned by the State.
Y’all, we already went through this with Xitter. Sorry you fell for it again, but this won’t be the last time if you continue to cling to platforms owned by the very people who want to censor you.
We’re not the ones who need to hear it, though.
Once again, they are using this mainly to censor anti-Israel content. No one is mentionning this in the articles and comments.
It’s because our government is literally occupied by this genocidal state that was blackmailing our politicians with trafficked children. History will call these people traitors https://www.trackaipac.com/
