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.”
it was one of the last platform that allows significant criticism against ISrael without being censored, thats why.
This is TikTok in America as managed by Larry Ellison and the US government btw. They Iron Curtained y’all.
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
How convenient.
Weird timing these bugs seem to have, eh?
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.
shortform content, is addictive to people.
It’s probably either sunk-cost fallacy or outright denial
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. 🙄
Said no one ever.
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.
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.
especially one that reaches a wider range of young gen z people who had not been captured by other alt-right social media yet.
We’re not the ones who need to hear it, though.
Okay good so they’re going to fix it then?
A bug right. Just EA is blocking/censoring the name as well.
Not “bugs”…“features.”
So people are upset that they can’t get the info or propaganda they want on tick tock…
Which tells me that these people think that tick tock is a reputable place to get this kind of information
I have heard more about this tick tock bullshit than I have heard about the ice bullshit today and that should say a lot about nature of our society here in America.
