TikTok Told Moderators to Suppress Posts by “Ugly” People and the Poor

Re:TikTok Told Moderators to Suppress Posts by “Ugly” People... by amitport on Monday March 16, 2020 @01:27AM (#22590263)

Whataboutism doesn't help the conversation

Edit in response to commenter: Whataboutism is a Meme? It a logical failure and when used it should be dismissed since it highjacks the conversation which is about what tiktok did (which is different from what insta and friends do).

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Re:TikTok Told Moderators to Suppress Posts by “Ugly” People... by fingerlocks on Monday March 16, 2020 @01:48AM (#22590351)

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

In particular: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21854822

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Re:TikTok Told Moderators to Suppress Posts by “Ugly” People... by viraptor on Monday March 16, 2020 @02:17AM (#22590461)

"tiktok didn't say it, because..." is a counterexample. "Yes. Also at Instagram" is extra information. "Yes, but doesn't Instagram also ..." is still whataboutism.

The whole point about whataboutism and how it got used politically is not that it's false. It's just used to distract and redirect conversation.

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Re:TikTok Told Moderators to Suppress Posts by “Ugly” People... by fingerlocks on Monday March 16, 2020 @03:51AM (#22590853)

Are you responding to the wrong person? I don’t have a horse in this fight.

Only pointing out that finger pointing “whataboutism” isn’t popular here.

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Re:TikTok Told Moderators to Suppress Posts by “Ugly” People... by viraptor on Monday March 16, 2020 @04:42AM (#22591038)

I meant that the "in particular" link just doesn't apply to this situation.

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Re:TikTok Told Moderators to Suppress Posts by “Ugly” People... by Broodleblot on Monday March 16, 2020 @01:30AM (#22590275)

Neither does dismissing things with a meme.

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