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Does the average chinese person care about this? Does the average human care about this? Are we propagating negative chinese news? I am not suggesting it's fak

Does the average chinese person care about this? Does the average human care about this? Are we propagating negative chinese news? I am not suggesting it's fake news, and I am sure it's happening. But literally nothing will come of it. If this is a holocaust, we aren't doing anything about it. There are multiple genocides, and we do nothing about it.

yorwba 7y ago
The interesting part here is that TikTok kept the video up. That does make their claims that they aren't exporting Chinese-style censorship somewhat convincing.
- Jamwinner 7y ago
  By the letter, sure. It was alredy too late. They did punish her in every other way, shutting off other phones and other accounts. Not exactly indicitave of integrity.
  - Lapsed 7y ago
    From the article it sounds like those punishments were for something else, and happened before she uploaded this video.
  - yorwba 7y ago
    Chinese-style censorship frequently happens after it's "too late" and thousands of people have watched raw footage the government would prefer to keep secret. But that's not actually too late to remove it from recommendations, prevent related hashtags from trending, ignore relevant search terms and delete reuploads to thoroughly kill virality. It doesn't look like TikTok did any of that in this case, since the BBC didn't appear to have had any trouble finding the video.
save_ferris 7y ago
> Are we propagating negative Chinese news? Yes? Should we not care what one of the largest economies in the world is doing to its people? > literally nothing will come of it. How do you figure that? Are you arguing that we shouldn’t cover something newsworthy because you’re convinced nothing will change?
tim333 7y ago
Quite a lot of humans care about this. Public pressure can have an influence.
Jamwinner 7y ago
We have too many business interests there to speak up. See YCs recent exit.

yorwba 7y ago

The interesting part here is that TikTok kept the video up. That does make their claims that they aren't exporting Chinese-style censorship somewhat convincing.

Jamwinner 7y ago
By the letter, sure. It was alredy too late. They did punish her in every other way, shutting off other phones and other accounts. Not exactly indicitave of integrity.
- Lapsed 7y ago
  From the article it sounds like those punishments were for something else, and happened before she uploaded this video.
- yorwba 7y ago
  Chinese-style censorship frequently happens after it's "too late" and thousands of people have watched raw footage the government would prefer to keep secret. But that's not actually too late to remove it from recommendations, prevent related hashtags from trending, ignore relevant search terms and delete reuploads to thoroughly kill virality. It doesn't look like TikTok did any of that in this case, since the BBC didn't appear to have had any trouble finding the video.

save_ferris 7y ago

> Are we propagating negative Chinese news? Yes? Should we not care what one of the largest economies in the world is doing to its people? > literally nothing will come of it. How do you figure that? Are you arguing that we shouldn’t cover something newsworthy because you’re convinced nothing will change?

tim333 7y ago

Quite a lot of humans care about this. Public pressure can have an influence.

Jamwinner 7y ago

We have too many business interests there to speak up. See YCs recent exit.