If you get your medical information from TikTok you really have far bigger problems.
this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2023
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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.
That sure are some strong claims. Anything to back those up? Propaganda by whom/for what? Population control of what population by whom? How can a distribution platform also be a tool for cencorship?
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.
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
They try to do everything to make users stay on their platform for as long as possible. They were probably afraid that the concept of orphanages might bum people out too much.