How TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing

Re:How TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing by stonekyx on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @10:42PM (#21077666)

They should indeed, but I guess it's hard for those engineers in China to find a domestic company that allows them to do differently.

Moving to a foreign company in China may not actually solve the problem, and moving to a different country may not be an option at all, so they end up keep doing the bad things and pretend not to know. I have a friend there who seems to be like this.

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Re:How TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing by tempsy on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @11:20PM (#21077860)

TikTok/ByteDance has offices in both the Bay Area and Los Angeles here in the US. I know a former colleague who is not Chinese who works there. Point is there are certainly many non-Chinese citizens who work there that are complicit in enforcing such rules.

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Re:How TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing by soup10 on Thursday September 26, 2019 @01:53AM (#21078589)

I didn't know ByteDance was the same company, they've been pushing their analytics api on mobile developers... no idea what data they are phoning home with that or what they are doing with it.

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Re:How TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing by throwaway1777 on Thursday September 26, 2019 @05:06AM (#21079363)

Maybe a few, but I’ve heard their US offices are more than 90% Chinese.

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