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Re:TikTok owner ByteDance sees its earnings double in 2020 by pjc50 on Friday June 18, 2021 @10:40AM (#27550848)
> TikTok is a social network that could not be made by an American company, due to its complete disregard for free speech and embrace of censorship.

This is nonsense. All the social networks have things they will remove and ban your account for, from spam and CP upwards (Instagram and FB being notoriously touchy about sexuality). It seems that TikTok is heavier about politics than most, but censorship is not a boolean.

Re:TikTok owner ByteDance sees its earnings double in 2020 by rapsey on Friday June 18, 2021 @10:48AM (#27550935)
TikTok removes or makes it much harder to find content they do not want on the platform. Things that are not the right tone. There is very little political and culture war crap on it. They don't just censor for abusive, CP, spam and so on.
Re:TikTok owner ByteDance sees its earnings double in 2020 by dntrkv on Friday June 18, 2021 @12:26PM (#27552016)
> There is very little political and culture war crap on it

That all depends on what kind of content you engage with. There is plenty of "political and culture war" type content on TikTok. You probably just don't see it.

Re:TikTok owner ByteDance sees its earnings double in 2020 by ska on Friday June 18, 2021 @12:57PM (#27552386)
Both could be true - i.e. that there is that sort of content there and you will find it if you engage with that stuff ... and that there is notably less of it that on other services.

Any individuals exposure to one of these large networks is a tiny, tiny fraction of what is there.