| Tik Tok 07:51 - Jan 28 with 571 views | DJR |
Apologies for another thread on Trump but I was alerted to this story by a news item on the World Service this morning and I thought it deserved a fresh thread.
American investors hand-picked by, and supportive of, Trump took over the US version of Tik Tok last week.
The result appears to be the suppression of anti-Trump content, Epstein references, and anti-ICE videos.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/art
Tik Tok claims it is due to bugs but the following article challenges that.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-p
"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.”
“Even if these are technical glitches, the pattern of what’s being suppressed reveals something significant,” Literat told Ars. “When your ‘bug’ consistently affects anti-Trump content, Epstein references, and anti-ICE videos, you’re looking at either spectacular coincidence or systems that have been designed—whether intentionally or through embedded biases—to flag and suppress specific political content.”
Who'd've thunk that a social media platform controlled by Americans may be more restrictive of free speech than when it was controlled by China?
It's free speech, Jim, but not as we know it. [Post edited 28 Jan 9:41]
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| Tik Tok on 08:20 - Jan 28 with 474 views | NedPlimpton |
Just a tiny point of order, because it's worth remembering that China is still a pretty grim place itself, tiktok operates in china as Douyin and is very heavily censored
But, yeah this was always going to happen, wasn't it. I hope it puts people off but I can't imagine it will. And again, the whole thing was never about China, it was always about getting tiktok into the hands of his chums |  | | |
| Tik Tok on 08:25 - Jan 28 with 458 views | DJR |
| Tik Tok on 08:20 - Jan 28 by NedPlimpton |
Just a tiny point of order, because it's worth remembering that China is still a pretty grim place itself, tiktok operates in china as Douyin and is very heavily censored
But, yeah this was always going to happen, wasn't it. I hope it puts people off but I can't imagine it will. And again, the whole thing was never about China, it was always about getting tiktok into the hands of his chums |
Agree totally, and my point was only intended to be about Tik Tok so far as it operates in the US. [Post edited 28 Jan 8:25]
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| Tik Tok on 09:00 - Jan 28 with 359 views | Basuco |
It's like living 1930's Germany, as someone famously said. |  | | |
| Tik Tok on 09:08 - Jan 28 with 331 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Tik Tok on 08:20 - Jan 28 by NedPlimpton |
Just a tiny point of order, because it's worth remembering that China is still a pretty grim place itself, tiktok operates in china as Douyin and is very heavily censored
But, yeah this was always going to happen, wasn't it. I hope it puts people off but I can't imagine it will. And again, the whole thing was never about China, it was always about getting tiktok into the hands of his chums |
You expect it to be used as a propaganda tool in China. The crazy thing in the supposed democracies of the west is that we have a public who is willingly signing up to be fed propaganda through the likes of X, Facebook and now Tik Tok. I really struggle to get my head around it all.
The case in the US at the moment with the girl suing social media platforms for damages related to mental health impacts after doom scrolling for hours a day is fascinating. On the one hand, she’s right to be going after them; they need to be regulated much more strongly. On the other, why didn’t she just not look at them… It’s a choice whether we want to be fed disinformation and be divided. |  |
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| Tik Tok on 13:34 - Jan 28 with 234 views | SouthBucksBlue |
| Tik Tok on 09:08 - Jan 28 by Swansea_Blue |
You expect it to be used as a propaganda tool in China. The crazy thing in the supposed democracies of the west is that we have a public who is willingly signing up to be fed propaganda through the likes of X, Facebook and now Tik Tok. I really struggle to get my head around it all.
The case in the US at the moment with the girl suing social media platforms for damages related to mental health impacts after doom scrolling for hours a day is fascinating. On the one hand, she’s right to be going after them; they need to be regulated much more strongly. On the other, why didn’t she just not look at them… It’s a choice whether we want to be fed disinformation and be divided. |
For many it’s not a choice though.
It’s a powerful self reinforcing addiction.
How many nowadays cannot watch a tv program without scrolling as well? |  | | |
| Tik Tok on 15:04 - Jan 28 with 124 views | DJR |
| Tik Tok on 13:34 - Jan 28 by SouthBucksBlue |
For many it’s not a choice though.
It’s a powerful self reinforcing addiction.
How many nowadays cannot watch a tv program without scrolling as well? |
One thing I find sad is a group of "workmen" sat round outside eating their lunch and all on their phone.
At one time there would have been a bit of banter | | | |
| Tik Tok on 15:48 - Jan 28 with 88 views | PhilsAngels |
| Tik Tok on 09:08 - Jan 28 by Swansea_Blue |
You expect it to be used as a propaganda tool in China. The crazy thing in the supposed democracies of the west is that we have a public who is willingly signing up to be fed propaganda through the likes of X, Facebook and now Tik Tok. I really struggle to get my head around it all.
The case in the US at the moment with the girl suing social media platforms for damages related to mental health impacts after doom scrolling for hours a day is fascinating. On the one hand, she’s right to be going after them; they need to be regulated much more strongly. On the other, why didn’t she just not look at them… It’s a choice whether we want to be fed disinformation and be divided. |
Does that mean that I can sue Phil & TWTD for all the hours I spend scrolling for updates on anything ITFC and otherwise
Maybe I have an addiction to TWTD.
It clearly affects others mental health on here from what some of them write.
I will be speaking to my Lawyer once I have finished reading the replies to this comment on this article | | | |
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