• @Plastic_Ramses
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    175 days ago

    Except for the extremely obvious disparity between chinese tiktok and american tiktok.

    Nothing at all.

    • @Maggoty
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      -165 days ago

      So are you saying they run the algorithm in their country? On their internal mirror app? The exact same setup TikTok offered the US?

      I don’t see how that’s the evidence you’re looking for.

        • ivanafterall ☑️
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          74 days ago

          I’m just a bystander, China sucks, but referencing a NY Post opinion piece feels a bit like using a Fox News segment as a source. They’re pretty trash.

          • AwesomeLowlander
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            64 days ago

            There’s individual sources for practically every paragraph in that article, so I’m not seeing the issue in this case.

        • archomrade [he/him]
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          14 days ago

          OK, so lets say they moderated it the same way here as they did in China… All good now?

          I don’t think it matters at all how tiktok is actually being managed or moderated in the US - Americans simply do not trust anything Chinese.

          The cold war never ended.

          • AwesomeLowlander
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            14 days ago

            By moderating, if you mean using the same algorithm for the content feed, it would make a significant difference to a lot of people I believe.

            • archomrade [he/him]
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              13 days ago

              Not a chance lol

              Most americans don’t know a single thing about China, but almost every one of them would tell you that it’s a anti-free speech hellscape.

              The only thing that matters is that it originated in China. Nothing else they do could change the opinion of the american public.

        • @[email protected]
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          14 days ago

          Of course it does, and for two major reasons:

          • Chinese law is very different from American law
          • China’s domestic propaganda interests are quite different than it’s international propaganda interests