So what though? If I have a website and I want a particular type of content on it, why should I NOT be allowed to moderate it? These are not public services.
The problem is the US government very publicly and explicitly forced TikTok to sell their website so they could change the content on it.
If you cannot have a particular type of content on your website and it get very popular without the government demanding you sell it to them, then there's a problem. TikTok was the first website to reach social media scale viewership in the US with such anti-American sentiments broadcast on it
Agree, time to host our own websites. People falsely believe sites like Facebook and Twitter are public utilities (some government services even depend on them now). While in reality their owners benevolently allowed you to store and share your content on their premises.
I would also add full responsibility for social platforms for actions of their visitors that they allowed on their premises. Similar to how, say, we accept responsibility of a private park owner allowing public visitors to.
Came to say the same. You posted something on somebody’s service. It wasn’t in line with what they allow on their service. Accept that truth or else use a different service.
I imagine this is being posted as a response to the fact that TikTok was forced to sell itself after it didn’t play nicely with US propaganda.
There is (or was) plenty of politically charged content on TikTok. There’s company began to change its tune once its livelyhood required being in Trump’s good graces
