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TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal
(www.bbc.co.uk)
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So are you saying they run the algorithm in their country? On their internal mirror app? The exact same setup TikTok offered the US?
I don't see how that's the evidence you're looking for.
https://nypost.com/2023/02/25/china-is-hurting-us-kids-with-tiktok-but-protecting-its-own/
It's extremely well documented that TikTok offers extremely different experiences within China than it does elsewhere.
I'm just a bystander, China sucks, but referencing a NY Post opinion piece feels a bit like using a Fox News segment as a source. They're pretty trash.
There's individual sources for practically every paragraph in that article, so I'm not seeing the issue in this case.
Of course it does, and for two major reasons:
OK, so lets say they moderated it the same way here as they did in China.... All good now?
I don't think it matters at all how tiktok is actually being managed or moderated in the US - Americans simply do not trust anything Chinese.
The cold war never ended.
By moderating, if you mean using the same algorithm for the content feed, it would make a significant difference to a lot of people I believe.
Not a chance lol
Most americans don't know a single thing about China, but almost every one of them would tell you that it's a anti-free speech hellscape.
The only thing that matters is that it originated in China. Nothing else they do could change the opinion of the american public.