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Re:Show HN: HN Badges – Displays game-like badges for your H... by jack1243star on Thursday September 02, 2021 @06:05AM (#28390314)
It's most probably a China thing. (Self-censoring "sensitive words" to avoid takedown.)
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Re:Show HN: HN Badges – Displays game-like badges for your H... by co2benzoate on Thursday September 02, 2021 @09:19AM (#28391671)
Which topics are banned in China? Other than the typical Winnie the Pooh, Tiananmen Square, and Taiwan areas?

edit - I guess Tiananmen Square isn't available in spell check

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Re:Show HN: HN Badges – Displays game-like badges for your H... by input_sh on Thursday September 02, 2021 @10:16AM (#28392300)
It's not that, it's more that there are words in general that TikTok does not tolerate, and there's no definitive list of those words. Some of them: gun, pissed, penis, vagina, any swear word, etc.

So since there's no definitive list and you can't make one because the content is not outright deleted (algorithm just ignores it), you end up in a situation where TikTok users self-censor just in case.

This is similar to what China does internally, but the list is definitely different.

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