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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by lupire on Friday January 17, 2025 @09:02PM (#42745148)
You are conflating strong Chinese Communist control of the business with how the content behaves. TikTok is full of content that would put a Chinese person in prison.

See this 2019 article outlining Chinese Communist moderation policies that (obviously) were attached to the app when TikTok was new, but were removed for non-Chinese user communities.

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

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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by imbnwa on Saturday January 18, 2025 @01:10AM (#42746279)
There's a Chinese creator on there Huey Li who just made a whole video about that as part of a story about how, now living stateside, he can no longer write in his mother language
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