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This was absolutely happening in 2020. That was a long time ago and the App is practically unrecognizable from its 2020 state.
~~Shifting the goalpost much~~
Sorry I insulted your app waifu with my... substantiated claims about it's conduct? How disingenuous of me. I should be ashamed, presenting its previous actions as things that it has done in the past.
You're the one who seems pretty upset about things but sure. Feel free to stoop to name calling and bad faith accusations if you'd like.
Time is, in fact, a thing that exists. Pointing out the age of an article is not shifting the goal post. Bad actions can be learned from and it is possible for things to become less shitty. You are welcome to couch your opinions in out of date information.
Tiktok is absolutely not perfect. It absolutely has issues of over-censorship at times. It absolutely should be critiqued. Even so, it provides a valuable place for people who are disenfranchised on other social media, even if it's simply that they are disenfranchised less on Tiktok.
(um, name calling?)
Anyways, my criticism was not time delineated, you asked for evidence, and now are claiming the evidence I provided to support my initial claim isn't good enough because of a new condition you've brought out. That's... I don't have another colloquial term to describe it besides "shifting the goalpost". You're changing the requirements for evidence to render previous valid evidence invalid. There's a term for that (a point I think I've amply belaboured by now).
And sure, poor behavior can absolutely be learned from. Thats a core tenet of society. But, just for fun, could you please give me an example of a massive multinational corporation, or a social media platform, voluntarily becoming less evil? There's been absolutely no indication that TikTok has ever stopped these practices, too. So why are you giving them the benefit of the doubt? Have they ever done anything to justify such high regard?
Look I'm sorry this apparent egalitarian wonder app is on the chopping block, but do you seriously want to be a TikTok Apologist? Could you imagine your reaction to someone this zealously defending, say, Facebook? You'd think they were nuts, facebook has been exhaustively shown to be so evil their CEO is widely rumored not to be human. So why is tiktok, an equally bad app (but one you like), suddenly okay?