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There you go. While they're at it, try critiquing the CCP on TikTok. Watch it get removed instantaneously.

In the US, at least you can sue the administration and criticize them over their actions. The CCP on the other hand...



> try critiquing the CCP on TikTok. Watch it get removed instantaneously.

You can even call them nazis without it getting removed: https://www.tiktok.com/tag/chinazi

Now if you tried that on Douyin, the results would be different, but Douyin is available in China while TikTok isn't, so Chinese censorship applies to Douyin while it doesn't apply to TikTok.


> You can even call them nazis without it getting removed

Which is why there is something called "Blacklisted tags" and it has been used towards QAnon posts [0] and on BLM posts. [1]

Some tags get shadow-banned so that it doesn't appear on TikTok. The users here take a new hashtag so that it can be searchable. This form of censorship still applies to TikTok.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/25/21338615/tiktok-qanon-has...

[1] https://time.com/5863350/tiktok-black-creators/


I didn't say they're not censoring content, I said they're not applying Chinese censorship. (Random aside: QAnon isn't banned on Weibo https://m.weibo.cn/search?containerid=100103type%3D1%26q%3D%... )


> There you go. While they're at it, try critiquing the CCP on TikTok. Watch it get removed instantaneously.

It doesn't get removed. Neither does LGBT content or Hong Kong protest content for that matter. Just because people repeat it again and again doesn't make it true and it takes literally three seconds to check if it's true or not.


> It doesn't get removed.

Are you sure? Only after they were called out publicly for it. [0][1] Explain why they had to own up for their actions on multiple counts of censorship to content that doesn't please the CCP.

> Just because people repeat it again and again doesn't make it true and it takes literally three seconds to check if it's true or not.

Took literally 3 seconds to find this: [2][3]

Since there is clear evidence that have done it before, they can definitely do it again (and have done), especially at sensitive content that the CCP dislikes.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/26/tiktok-says-it-doesnt-censor...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/28/tiktok-sa...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/15/tiktoks...

[3] https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-us...




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