Re:TikTok's local moderation guidelines ban pro-LGBT content
by imustbeevil on Thursday September 26, 2019 @04:20PM
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> Leave activism to western social media platforms with their trail of failed revolutions, genocide and death.
The last (failed) revolution in America was 150 years ago. China has not once gone 50 years without a revolution in the last 400 years. [1]
I support different countries trying different things, but Revolution is not a western problem. (And someone else can make claims about the definition of Genocide.)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rebellions_in_China
Re:TikTok's local moderation guidelines ban pro-LGBT content
by dirtyid on Thursday September 26, 2019 @09:15PM
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I'm referring to Arab Spring, Rohingya genocide, NZ shootings etc, all the recent western social media fueled events that have backfired spectacularly. The response has been to curtail speech like China has done 10 years ago when the problem was first identified.
This is a tiktok solution - a kid-friendly platform designed to for political "serenity".
Leave activism to western social media platforms with their trail of failed revolutions, genocide and death. Compare notes in a few years and see which model is preferable.
Likely a combination of the two. People complain about increased divisiveness, toxicity and extremist in social media. This is the Chinese solution refined post Urumqi riot in 2009. Almost prescient witnessing western social media platforms converge on Chinese style filtering in the last couple years.