There have also been discussions that the TikTok app will be relaunched (perhaps rewritten) as a new app. Put another way, we may all have to delete ByteDance’s TikTok app and install the new US-approved one, again, without assurances that it will operate in the same way and still include the freedom of expression the app has enjoyed for almost a decade.
I don’t love that freedom of expression is used in this case not to mean “freedom to express oneself as one wants” but instead to mean “a black box algorithm that at best allows one to express one particular slice shaped view of reality as favored by one particular group”
TikTok has little freedom of speech as it is. No talk about guns, death, drugs, racism. Now go to reels or yt shorts and there’s people calling black people the N word. It’s nuts.
This app will allow hate speech towards people of color and immigrants. It will not allow thought provoking criticism against the Trump regime.
They’ve said it’ll stay the current app on your phone. They’re licensing and “retraining” the Chinese algorithm, so…
That’s not what this article says
I don’t love that freedom of expression is used in this case not to mean “freedom to express oneself as one wants” but instead to mean “a black box algorithm that at best allows one to express one particular slice shaped view of reality as favored by one particular group”
TikTok has little freedom of speech as it is. No talk about guns, death, drugs, racism. Now go to reels or yt shorts and there’s people calling black people the N word. It’s nuts.
This app will allow hate speech towards people of color and immigrants. It will not allow thought provoking criticism against the Trump regime.
It’ll probably allow it but the content will be deranked so no one sees it.
One in the same
True, but every other article has said something different, so honestly who knows.
To your original point, it’s an insanely popular social media app and its users will absolutely go download a replacement.