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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by bjourne on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @08:44PM (#22612408)
About a decade ago there was a huge controversy where I live about many nightclubs limiting the number of immigrant male patrons per night. I guess you don't see a problem with that either?

"Protected class" is a cop out because the question isn't about what the law says but what is moral.

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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by heartbeats on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @09:04PM (#22612529)
Well, you want to have an exclusive clientele. If you get people who live in the ghetto going there, it's not exclusive. It just causes a poor vibe.

I mean, some nightclubs have immigrants, but nobody goes there because there are too many immigrants.

It's sort of the same thing here with TikTok: on one hand we say that it's bad to ethnically discriminate in nightclubs, on the other hand we don't go to the 'urban' nightclubs, and take it as a good signal when we read the immigrant patrons online complaining about ethnic discrimination.

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