
TikTok’s Beijing roots fuel censorship suspicion as it builds an US audience - baylearn
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/15/tiktoks-beijing-roots-fuel-censorship-suspicion-it-builds-huge-us-audience/
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core-questions
Facebook et. al. implement a ton of censorship. You can be banned in seconds
for posting content they deem offensive, even if it's not threatening /
obscene. Why would we expect any other social network to not also have
censorship? Why is Chinese censorship going to be any worse for Americans than
their own?

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Fjolsvith
Because the topics that China can censor can influence American election
outcomes.

Wait, I guess Facebook et. al. can influence them with censorship, too. [1]

1\. [https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-google-search-
bia...](https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-google-search-bias-
elections-20190322-story.html)

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core-questions
What if the American election outcome actually just does, in reality, reflect
the will of Americans? What if they really do want Trump, and it wasn't some
kind of scam?

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artsyca
in communist china, television watches you -- hmmmm this is well outside of
Orwell territory by now because it would've been unheard of for the
governments of his super-states to spy on each others' citizens!

