Re:TikTok Told Moderators to Suppress Posts by “Ugly” People...
by jariel on Monday March 16, 2020 @01:46AM
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There's no 'but'.
Companies that sell products for the disabled are not 'discriminated against' by the pretty and able-bodied who don't buy their products by virtue of the fact they don't want them.
There are no hairs to be split here: discriminating against the disabled is reprehensible if not illegal, moderating against those who are 'poor or ugly' is at least reprehensible, and suppressing those who don't support the Chinese State is deeply problematic, though it might not be illegal, it should be, at least for users within non-Chinese jurisdictions wherein the can establish regulations concerning this.
To boot, if it can be demonstrated that TikTok receives direct or indirect state aid, then they're violating WTO rules [1].
Companies that sell products for the disabled are not 'discriminated against' by the pretty and able-bodied who don't buy their products by virtue of the fact they don't want them.
There are no hairs to be split here: discriminating against the disabled is reprehensible if not illegal, moderating against those who are 'poor or ugly' is at least reprehensible, and suppressing those who don't support the Chinese State is deeply problematic, though it might not be illegal, it should be, at least for users within non-Chinese jurisdictions wherein the can establish regulations concerning this.
To boot, if it can be demonstrated that TikTok receives direct or indirect state aid, then they're violating WTO rules [1].
[1] https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/statra_e/statrad.htm