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.”
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…
Hey, now I am not able to watch videos about my favorite fast train from Germany, the InterCityExpress, ICE. /s
Every time. Facebook said the same thing when things that upset the powers got hidden or deleted.
Might not be a lie. They might be silently rolling a feature to selectively censor/ show ICE fascists and accidentally censored all by mistake lol
By bugs they mean bending over backwards to please daddy.
Translation: “We got caught”
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
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. 🤷
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.
shortform content, is addictive to people.
And Tiktok isn’t the only place for that exact type of content.
People are already jumping ship to other platforms.
What? MySpace never tried to topple a democracy.
They didn’t have the opportunity. They absolutely wanted to,
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.
It’s probably either sunk-cost fallacy or outright denial
it was one of the last platform that allows significant criticism against ISrael without being censored, thats why.
Ah, but that’s the thing. There are always new platforms.
The current winner seems to be a new one called Upscrolled.
The guy behind it is a Palestinian out of Jordan, with Australian citizenship?
Anyway, that’s all I currently know about it, the app is being hugged to death by tens of thousands of new users over the last day or two.
Not Open Source…
It is considerably more open and build on open source technologies and they do want to become decentralized “once the open protocols mature (?)” but still, can someone educate the kids on software freedom please.
There is If a federated alternative: loops
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.
Weird timing these bugs seem to have, eh?
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.
You’re not, but as counterintuitive as it may seem, there are people who use the Fediverse and big platforms like TikTok, Xitter, etc. My words are for them.
How convenient.
Okay good so they’re going to fix it then?
