Re:Teen's TikTok video about China's Muslim camps goes viral
by yorwba on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @02:50PM
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The interesting part here is that TikTok kept the video up. That does make their claims that they aren't exporting Chinese-style censorship somewhat convincing.
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Re:Teen's TikTok video about China's Muslim camps goes viral
by Jamwinner on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @08:20PM
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By the letter, sure. It was alredy too late.
They did punish her in every other way, shutting off other phones and other accounts. Not exactly indicitave of integrity.
Re:Teen's TikTok video about China's Muslim camps goes viral
by yorwba on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @03:09AM
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Chinese-style censorship frequently happens after it's "too late" and thousands of people have watched raw footage the government would prefer to keep secret. But that's not actually too late to remove it from recommendations, prevent related hashtags from trending, ignore relevant search terms and delete reuploads to thoroughly kill virality.
It doesn't look like TikTok did any of that in this case, since the BBC didn't appear to have had any trouble finding the video.