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TikTok claimed bugs blocked anti-ICE videos, Epstein mentions; experts call BS (arstechnica.com)
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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.”

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[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is TikTok in America as managed by Larry Ellison and the US government btw. They Iron Curtained y'all.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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...

[–] jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 14 hours ago

masked Gestapo goons

Honestly they're more like the SA

[–] rayyy@piefed.social 10 points 23 hours ago

That type of stuff only happens in shit-hole countries - FTFY.

[–] BoJackHorseman@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nothing to do with the fact that Larry Ellison is a jew and the largest individual contributor to Israel, right?

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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. 🤷