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I don't know how accurate it is - but I used to do business directly with Tsinghua University, and through that I got to know an executive who was pretty high u

I don't know how accurate it is - but I used to do business directly with Tsinghua University, and through that I got to know an executive who was pretty high up the food chain at ByteDance, and I'm regurgitating what he told me verbatim in terms of content "requested" on them by The Party. The Party had been quite worried about how much bullshit and useless information can be conveyed through short-form video, and wanted to be sure that if kids were going to be addicted to it, they might as well learn something useful.

oefrha 3y ago
Kids or adults simply don’t get addicted to educational content. An amazing human species for which the most popular app is an educational app doesn’t walk this earth. I have no way to verify who you’re regurgitating, but I can open the Douyin website/app, which I just did, to verify that 99.9% of it is not educational, and the “crappy addictive content” are getting millions of likes as ever. And the very popular livestreams which are a major source of their income have exactly nothing to do with education. Edit: Here's a screenshot of some of the most popular livestreams recommended to a visitor of live.douyin.com: https://0x0.st/HL9e.png https://0x0.st/HL9e.png Does any of these look educational to you?