TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people and the poor

Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by tedk-42 on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @07:30PM (#22611813)

The entitlement is too real here.

Their platform, their choice for what goes on. You want something better? Go build in yourself. I have no problem with platforms self moderating. At the end of the day consumers speak with their actions.

How many TV shows feature dwarfs or people with who are abnormal? Don't blame a platform for the inherit flaws in most of us. It really only serves as a black mirror to the truth.

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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by chillwaves on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @07:58PM (#22612047)

I agree completely, but these companies need to make their policies transparent so the users will have an informed choice about their platform.

Yet for some reason, TikTok wants to hide this story. Why do you think that is?

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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by heartbeats on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @09:01PM (#22612511)

Because it's not a good look. They want to use a clean app, but they don't want to see the cleaning being done.

This is what people want. I mean, if they wanted to see ugly people or whatever, then TikTok would show them it. It's not any different than Tinder filtering out the duds.

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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by chillwaves on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @10:07PM (#22612876)

Then why not just leave it to an algorithm? Why the need for editorial intervention?

The person I was responding to was basically saying "let the users decide" but that can't happen if TikTok is lying to the users.

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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by fxtentacle on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @03:02AM (#22614310)

These days, a lot of what tech companies call "artificial intelligence" is actually outsourced moderators used to train a linear regression.

So there isn't much difference between algorithmic and manual sorting yet, because the AI needed for algorithmic curation is not intelligent enough yet.

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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by umvi on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @07:42PM (#22611907)

> How many TV shows feature dwarfs or people with who are abnormal?

Oh I don't know...Game of Thrones (Tyrion), Stranger Things (Dustin), Breaking Bad (Walt Jr.) etc.

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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by ceres on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @09:56PM (#22612809)

And those characters stand out partly because they're not the norm in Hollywood

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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by stale2002 on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @09:41PM (#22612750)

> The entitlement is too real here.

A platform is not entitled to be free from criticism. And neither are you.

The platform can do what it wants, and the rest of society is free to attack them for it, and cause them to get bad publicity.

And it is silly for you to attack people for giving their opinion on the matter.

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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by cosmodisk on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @07:56PM (#22612015)

Can't remember what was the country,where the absolute majority of parents give their children away to institutions if they were born with any mental or physical disabilities....Nice not have those nasties around,I suppose,right?

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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by filoleg on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @08:58PM (#22612492)

Do you seriously think that getting rid of a child is somehow even remotely comparable to not being able to use an ephemeral social media app that is essentially just Vine 2.0?

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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by leshenka on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @08:25PM (#22612284)

> Their platform, their choice for what goes on.

Can you say the same about Facebook?

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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by nomel on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @08:37PM (#22612356)

I'm not sure what their current policy is, but they also had community standards [1] which they defined and enacted.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/heres-what-facebook-wont-let-you...

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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by danem on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @08:41PM (#22612395)

Absolutely. Why would it be any different?

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