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You are forgetting TikTok mods tasked to shadowban from "For You" anybody they think is physically unattractive, poor, go political in livestreams, etc. (https:
by throwaway290 4y ago
You are forgetting TikTok mods tasked to shadowban from "For You" anybody they think is physically unattractive, poor, go political in livestreams, etc. (https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-users-discrimination/ https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-us...)
Don't have any illusions, they can easily control what goes viral if it matters to the mothership.
- unityByFreedom 4y agoYeah, keeping political content off the service must require a company-connected person to review every piece of content that reaches a certain level of exposure. I don't think they are successful at keeping off political content though, in the sense that denying political content is a political statement itself in favor of the status quo.
- throwaway290 4y agoIt's not about them making political statements, but about their moderation policy. I almost think you are responding to a wrong comment.
- sudosysgen 4y agoThey are quite unsuccessful at it. I often get very political content on my for you page - for some of my friends that's the vast majority of the content they get, and a good third of it is from either non conventionally attractive people or very obviously poor people. The manual shadowbanning fight is one they will never win.
- throwaway290 4y agoMaybe they changed the guidelines but note they were about politics in livestreams not just any video. You can review everything (including political content) with a simple delay in video discovery, live content is where it's not possible.