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> there appears to be a huge divide between how US and Chinese users are treated. TikTok is not Douyin. TikTok serves users outside of China, and ByteDance is
by xvector 6y ago
> there appears to be a huge divide between how US and Chinese users are treated.
TikTok is not Douyin. TikTok serves users outside of China, and ByteDance is aware that such extensive censorship would cause massive backlash against the app, so it is not done - especially when the public perception of China makes the company so precariously placed. As such, this is why you can still see posts about Uyighur Muslims and anti-China rhetoric on your FYP in TikTok rather easily.
With Douyin, censorship is state mandated. Practically every big Chinese tech company will have some advanced state-of-the-art censorship infrastructure for their Chinese users.