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As someone who used tiktok when he was a meme with the French song, it was a blatant action done against him. They (shadow) banned all the tiktok accounts making edits of him, they modified search results to put the official new sources relating to him at the top, hiding the user-generated content. Note, they did the same thing during the California wildfires to show only verified account videos to hide misinformation.
I think Tate is a grifter, but we really shouldn't let governments or big tech companies to artificially hide content because someone is a controversial figure.
You currently cannot search 'hitler' on tiktok at all. It's all a slippery slope that led to age verification, chat control, etc.
So get off of those platforms. Stop giving them that power.
There isn’t going to be some heroic government that will come in and make Silicon Valley and other assorted media owning billionaires suddenly behave like careful stewards of online discourse.
Nothing that they’re doing is illegal, you read the TOS, right? They have no incentive to change. Stoking outrage drives engagement and keeps the money rolling in.
It won’t affect them in any meaningful way. They can just move away if they accidentally tear a society apart.
I go where the relevant content is. I clearly don't mind using alternative social media like Lemmy, but tiktok has great creators and indie music that I wouldn't be exposed to anywhere else.
I use multiple social networks to prevent bias with adblockers to limit how much money they make.
Sometimes doing the right thing means making sacrifices.
I’d rather miss out on some content than support these systems that give a handful of rich narcissists control over all news and discourse in the western world.