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Re:Trump gives nod to Oracle buyout of TikTok in US by lenkite on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @12:29PM (#24212275)
That's because TikTok does pretty heavy 'auditing' - the content is NOT organic at all. Only the good-looking people and the happy videos go to the top. The others go to the bottom or are 'disappeared'
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Re:Trump gives nod to Oracle buyout of TikTok in US by Barrin92 on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @02:50PM (#24214500)
>Only the good-looking people and the happy videos go to the top.

I don't know what problem the US has with it then, they've already assimilated, Hollywood would be jealous

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Re:Trump gives nod to Oracle buyout of TikTok in US by smallchungus on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @01:07PM (#24212804)
Congrats you just described society.
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Re:Trump gives nod to Oracle buyout of TikTok in US by lenkite on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @02:32PM (#24214204)
This has little to do with "society". Its policy.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-...

https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-us...

https://www.businessinsider.com/internal-guidelines-show-tik...

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Re:Trump gives nod to Oracle buyout of TikTok in US by smallchungus on Thursday August 20, 2020 @09:19AM (#24222908)
And the policy was written by........?
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