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TikTok’s Beijing roots fuel censorship suspicion as it builds an US audience
- ggg3 7y agoit was created in los angeles and all the legal documents still point to an office in los angeles. and I doubt that if you search for #russia you will see videos about trump. When can we see a news article about how california censor tiktok? edit: my point is that this is a fart-app. if you expect a modicum of newsworthy content, that is a problem already. this article is akin to crying because the jack-ass movie or hang-over-7 lacks political commentary.
- core-questions 7y agoFacebook et. al. implement a ton of censorship. You can be banned in seconds for posting content they deem offensive, even if it's not threatening / obscene. Why would we expect any other social network to not also have censorship? Why is Chinese censorship going to be any worse for Americans than their own?
- Fjolsvith 7y agoBecause the topics that China can censor can influence American election outcomes. Wait, I guess Facebook et. al. can influence them with censorship, too. [1] 1. https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-google-search-bias-elections-20190322-story.html https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-google-search-bia...
- core-questions 7y agoWhat if the American election outcome actually just does, in reality, reflect the will of Americans? What if they really do want Trump, and it wasn't some kind of scam?
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- artsyca 7y agoin communist china, television watches you -- hmmmm this is well outside of Orwell territory by now because it would've been unheard of for the governments of his super-states to spy on each others' citizens!