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A TikTok spokesperson said the goal was to prevent bullying on the platform, tying the document to a report from December that showed that the company was suppr
by keanzu 7y ago
A TikTok spokesperson said the goal was to prevent bullying on the platform, tying the document to a report from December that showed that the company was suppressing vulnerable users’ videos in a misguided effort to prevent them from becoming the centre of attention that could turn sour.
Now that is some fine spin! Reminds of the Oscar Wilde sketch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uycsfu4574w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uycsfu4574w
- nothrabannosir 7y agoI used TikTok for a while and saw plenty videos of actual bullying. The comments were never too happy about it, but there was clearly no effort to moderate it. TikTok doesn’t care about bullying.
- hrktb 7y agoIt seems their goal is to make the issue go away altogether by pre-censoring people so they don’t have to police bullying after. Here it’s humans taking that shortcut, in the future I’d totally imagine AIs resolving to eliminate the source of the problems when dealing with societal issues. And we sure won’t be happy about it.
- inapis 7y agoTikTok would be naive to believe that that tactic would alleviate bullying. Anyone long around knows that the internet will find a reason to take you down if they get salty for some reason. Maybe if you’re unattractive, that itself becomes a bullying point but I’ve seen plenty of youtubers/instagramers being torn to shreds for not wearing the right dress, not choosing the correct words etc etc!