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> TikTok is an app designed for kids and No Politics policies make the app friendly for kids, which is preferable to the Youtube radicalization treadmill model.
by xvector 7y ago
> TikTok is an app designed for kids and No Politics policies make the app friendly for kids, which is preferable to the Youtube radicalization treadmill model.
I think this is a false dichotomy. You are mentioning two companies that play this game in bad faith. There is a middle-ground.
- dirtyid 7y agoWhat is the middle-ground? The end goal is behaviour modelling of some kind that requires selective information or censorship. I'm partial to unrestricted free speech 8chan / edge-lord internet openness, but western society broadly is drifting towards censoring extremely divisive content, aka the China model. The question is where do you draw the line? DOTA conduct points that banning the most toxic players (kids) that seems to be well received? Oh no that's social credit. I predict that western and eastern social media will converge on the same censorship solutions, maybe even overlap.
- linkregister 7y agoYou may not be American. American HN folks tend to take it for granted that their beliefs are universal. The controversy isn't as much that TikTok bans political speech or divisive content, it's that TikTok selectively enforces it based on whether or not it is in one particular country's self-interest.