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Why do you have that feeling? I volunteer helping to report and disrupt networks of sexual assault and hatred against women on social media. Tik Tok is like the
by AlecSchueler 3y ago
Why do you have that feeling? I volunteer helping to report and disrupt networks of sexual assault and hatred against women on social media. Tik Tok is like the wild west in terms of the availability of CSAM for example, and in how tolerant it is of hate speech. Instagram actually takes reports seriously and doesn't tolerate threats of violence etc.
- megapolitics 3y agoMy observation has been that the comments on high engagement TikTok posts are generally quite pleasant, whereas the comments on high engagement Instagram posts feel like a KKK meeting.
- iinnPP 3y agoThis is my experience as well (though it is uninstalled as of ~1 year ago). You get what you look for on Tiktok.
- mikrotikker 3y agoHaha now do YouTube.
- wongarsu 3y agoYoutube comments used to be known as a cesspool, but lately I'm mostly avoiding them for their unbearable positivity and uncritical praise of the video. I can see how that's bad on conspiracy or racist videos though.
- andai 3y agoFascinating, I'd guess this to be the result of a filter bubble? i.e. it would only show you things you agree with. That might not be optimal though (at least in terms of harvesting human attention at all costs), I always heard that outrage drives engagement better?
- previnder 3y agoI wonder if this is because the creators routinely prune negative comments of them. Or perhaps it is because Youtube severely down ranks comments with dislikes.
- hydrok9 3y agoBecause YouTube promotes positive comments and every comment section is set to "best comments" now by default (instead of most recent comments)
- irksomehails 3y agoToxic positivity is what the cool kids call it. Overtly positive, happy and encouraging comments that feel so manufactured and fake.
- pjc50 3y agoI'm familiar with the misogyny problem (Andrew Tate etc), but I thought that CSAM was the one thing that got an immediate effective banhammer everywhere on the Internet. If you've got a real CSAM problem with TikTok it might be addressed by taking it to their CDN? (even on HN, it's hard to get people to focus on the "is it harmful" question for social media rather than the "run by foreigners vs Americans" aspect)
- pantalaimon 3y agoMaybe CSAM = 12 year olds posting videos of themselves dancing?
- donkeyd 3y agoThe 'abuse' in that scenario being the fact that the parents are ignorant or uninvolved enough to let it happen.
- lovepronmostly 3y agois there some unspoken assumption here? Myself and my friends all have videos of our kids dancing at many ages. None of it is considered csam
- AlecSchueler 3y agoIf you're posting it publicly then yes it's very likely that it's being redistributed in a pornographic context.
- tremon 3y agoWhat's next? We should ban all photos of winter forests because arbophiles might get off on them?
- AlecSchueler 3y agoYes, TikTok is very very popular for this. The network of these accounts is then leveraged by "fan accounts" who form hubs for abusers to connect with one another and share links to other platforms, particularly Telegram and Mega. Reddit is also extremely bad for it. They have a system now where a new subreddit is created every day, discoverable via known keywords, and then used as a directory for links to telegram. The other thing you'll commonly see on both of these platforms is material being stolen from other social media platforms and then re-hosted to reddit or TikTok with sexualised descriptions. Reddit for example will often say it's fine as long they don't explicitly mention that the images are not of the poster.
- GaryNumanVevo 3y agoWhy do I get a bad feeling about someone "volunteering" to police CSAM on the internet in the name of "disrupting networks of sexual assault"? Vigilante CSAM Detective doesn't exactly sit well with me
- flkenosad 3y ago> I volunteer helping to report and disrupt networks of sexual assault and hatred against women on social media. Are you part of an organization?