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How a suicide video on Facebook Live went viral on TikTok (engadget.com)
5 points by canada_random1 on Sept 13, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


> Our systems, together with our moderation teams, have been detecting and removing these clips for violating our policies against content that displays, praises, glorifies, or promotes suicide. We are banning accounts that repeatedly try to upload clips

Repeatedly? If someone uploads video of a man blowing his brains out to an app mostly used by children then that person shouldn’t be given any leeway...


TicTok is 13 years plus so it's not children in that it's growing adults mixed with real adults.

But I do not understand how uploading this video would not be an instant ban, especially if it's hidden in a shock style.

But 'liking' is up to the user.




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