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The entitlement is too real here. Their platform, their choice for what goes on. You want something better? Go build in yourself. I have no problem with platfo

The entitlement is too real here. Their platform, their choice for what goes on. You want something better? Go build in yourself. I have no problem with platforms self moderating. At the end of the day consumers speak with their actions. How many TV shows feature dwarfs or people with who are abnormal? Don't blame a platform for the inherit flaws in most of us. It really only serves as a black mirror to the truth.

umvi 7y ago
> How many TV shows feature dwarfs or people with who are abnormal? Oh I don't know...Game of Thrones (Tyrion), Stranger Things (Dustin), Breaking Bad (Walt Jr.) etc.
- ceres 7y ago
  And those characters stand out partly because they're not the norm in Hollywood
cosmodisk 7y ago
Can't remember what was the country,where the absolute majority of parents give their children away to institutions if they were born with any mental or physical disabilities....Nice not have those nasties around,I suppose,right?
- filoleg 7y ago
  Do you seriously think that getting rid of a child is somehow even remotely comparable to not being able to use an ephemeral social media app that is essentially just Vine 2.0?
chillwaves 7y ago
I agree completely, but these companies need to make their policies transparent so the users will have an informed choice about their platform. Yet for some reason, TikTok wants to hide this story. Why do you think that is?
- heartbeats 7y ago
  Because it's not a good look. They want to use a clean app, but they don't want to see the cleaning being done. This is what people want. I mean, if they wanted to see ugly people or whatever, then TikTok would show them it. It's not any different than Tinder filtering out the duds.
  - chillwaves 7y ago
    Then why not just leave it to an algorithm? Why the need for editorial intervention? The person I was responding to was basically saying "let the users decide" but that can't happen if TikTok is lying to the users.
    - fxtentacle 7y ago
      These days, a lot of what tech companies call "artificial intelligence" is actually outsourced moderators used to train a linear regression. So there isn't much difference between algorithmic and manual sorting yet, because the AI needed for algorithmic curation is not intelligent enough yet.
leshenka 7y ago
> Their platform, their choice for what goes on. Can you say the same about Facebook?
- nomel 7y ago
  I'm not sure what their current policy is, but they also had community standards [1] which they defined and enacted. [1] https://www.wired.com/story/heres-what-facebook-wont-let-you-post/ https://www.wired.com/story/heres-what-facebook-wont-let-you...
- danem 7y ago
  Absolutely. Why would it be any different?
stale2002 7y ago
> The entitlement is too real here. A platform is not entitled to be free from criticism. And neither are you. The platform can do what it wants, and the rest of society is free to attack them for it, and cause them to get bad publicity. And it is silly for you to attack people for giving their opinion on the matter.

umvi 7y ago

> How many TV shows feature dwarfs or people with who are abnormal? Oh I don't know...Game of Thrones (Tyrion), Stranger Things (Dustin), Breaking Bad (Walt Jr.) etc.

ceres 7y ago
And those characters stand out partly because they're not the norm in Hollywood

cosmodisk 7y ago

Can't remember what was the country,where the absolute majority of parents give their children away to institutions if they were born with any mental or physical disabilities....Nice not have those nasties around,I suppose,right?

filoleg 7y ago
Do you seriously think that getting rid of a child is somehow even remotely comparable to not being able to use an ephemeral social media app that is essentially just Vine 2.0?

chillwaves 7y ago

I agree completely, but these companies need to make their policies transparent so the users will have an informed choice about their platform. Yet for some reason, TikTok wants to hide this story. Why do you think that is?

heartbeats 7y ago
Because it's not a good look. They want to use a clean app, but they don't want to see the cleaning being done. This is what people want. I mean, if they wanted to see ugly people or whatever, then TikTok would show them it. It's not any different than Tinder filtering out the duds.
- chillwaves 7y ago
  Then why not just leave it to an algorithm? Why the need for editorial intervention? The person I was responding to was basically saying "let the users decide" but that can't happen if TikTok is lying to the users.
  - fxtentacle 7y ago
    These days, a lot of what tech companies call "artificial intelligence" is actually outsourced moderators used to train a linear regression. So there isn't much difference between algorithmic and manual sorting yet, because the AI needed for algorithmic curation is not intelligent enough yet.

leshenka 7y ago

> Their platform, their choice for what goes on. Can you say the same about Facebook?

nomel 7y ago
I'm not sure what their current policy is, but they also had community standards [1] which they defined and enacted. [1] https://www.wired.com/story/heres-what-facebook-wont-let-you-post/ https://www.wired.com/story/heres-what-facebook-wont-let-you...
danem 7y ago
Absolutely. Why would it be any different?

stale2002 7y ago

> The entitlement is too real here. A platform is not entitled to be free from criticism. And neither are you. The platform can do what it wants, and the rest of society is free to attack them for it, and cause them to get bad publicity. And it is silly for you to attack people for giving their opinion on the matter.