Yeah, I'm staying on Rednote
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I mean, fuck Tik Tok, yes. But also try saying "Liberate Hong Kong", "Taiwan Independence", "Remember Tiananmen Square 1989", or "Xi is Winnie The Pooh" on Rednote. Let's not pretend that Rednote, or any other Chinese media, is free of censorship either.
The difference here is that TikTok did not enforce censorship on content related to the genocide in Palestine, nor did it have a right-wing bias in the algorithm like, say, Twitter does.
This shift in censorship puts TikTok in line with Twitter and Facebook/Instagram on the propaganda narrative that they want on their platform. Which is a massive issue for anybody left of white supremacists who cares about free speech and facts.
looks at how they promote AfD influencers in Germany, and how they promoted targeted videos to try to elect a neo-nazi in Romania
It doesn't have what?
Well arguably it has whatever-destabilizes-the-country-the-most bias, but for most of the western world this mostly means they have a pro local fascists bias.
That's a very American national-solipsistic view of TikTok.
I'm not an American national. Just a trans person. I wonder why it would matter to me when all major social media websites start allowing people to call for genocide against my community.
TikTok has been promoting trans-genocide in several European countries for years.
Poor baby doesn't get to (1) call for violence on an international scale (2) Commit blood libel, or (3) Be openly racist
Typical western liberal
Yes, you're right. "This population under a genocide should liberated" and "Chinese man is yellow bear lol" are equivalent forms of conversation. Absolutely heroic.
You should be concerned about this if you live in China.
I would imagine you would also want to avoid getting on their list if you ever wanted to travel to there as a tourist.
I'm not following the logic, do they censor content differently based on the country of the account holder??
They meant physical consequences as in using China's internet access unique id to identify the commenter and then having them "reeducated" by local government forces.
It does not matter that China censors because TikTok users live in the West.