#TikTok is perfectly capable of loosing on multiple fronts in my mind

[humming-fly]

hi, I would encourage you to fact-check that post about censorship on tiktok. people’s videos absolutely do get taken down by the platform for using words the app/company has flagged, it’s notably a big problem for people using words like “transgender” and “lesbian” and “palestine” :// users (including ppl I know irl) get their accounts suspended over the use of LGBTQ words in their captions.

Howdy, thanks for reaching out!

I’ll be perfectly transparent I absolutely did Google that one to check it before I reblogged it because I try to practice “don’t reblog misinformation”, and since the first several hits didn’t mention users getting banned for things that post seemed to imply weren’t officially censored (swearwords, saying “die” “kill” etc.) I took it to be accurate without looking further into it

that said you’re absolutely right that TikTok does censor other words and phrases, though from best I can tell there’s no firm list (I did find a whole ass Wikipedia article on it though)

from that and some cursory googling I didn’t find immediate evidence that they block tags like ‘Palestine’ but did find some articles complaining tiktok was anti-Israel, so good chance opinions on that app’s stance differ by who you ask - for LGBT stuff def in 2019-2020 they had recorded problems via that Wikipedia article but since then either complaints have died down or they don’t report it as much. That said LGBT stuff is Absolutely being censored in some countries like China and I can easily see that spilling over either intentionally or otherwise into other territories

all that said I do think the original reblogged post stands in that some words aren’t being blocked (die kill masturbation etc) and people are trying to circumvent that for whatever reason, be it to get past peoples filters or to simply try and expand their audience into countries that have stricter censorship laws

meanwhile your point that other terms are actively being censored even within the US (where I’m at) is also true and important to consider

anyways this kind of derailed into a little research project during my lunch break - all said none of this has changed my opinion on TikTok (terrible app I will never ever use), but it was a good exercise in checking facts rather than going off knee jerk assumptions!