Social Media Giant Outlaws Anti-Government Wrongthink – Opinion

For those of you who spend your lives cranking out TikTok content, I have negative news: You’ll no longer be able to wax unimpededly political. The next time you toss your hips to a quarter-minute of hip hop, you’ll need to watch your mouths.

If you’re unfamiliar with the uber-popular app, witness its video gold:

Federal agents investigating a series of armed robberies across Metro Detroit have arrested a popular TikTok personality after he was spotted dancing in what investigators described as his stick-up shoes https://t.co/nvdgWuCKa0 pic.twitter.com/0coFoJY76w

— Robert Snell (@robertsnellnews) February 25, 2022

Since clips can last up to three minutes, it’s an excellent arena for expressing ideas:

It is interesting to see how asking people to select pronouns subtly can confuse them. This works. pic.twitter.com/RvBgF1P1Pd

— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) March 1, 2022

However, the site’s amended its Community Guidelines, and a muzzling is among us.

ByteDance is China’s tech company that owns TikTok. As you might’ve heard, the People’s Republic isn’t known for its adoration of insolence toward authority.

Apropos of such an absence of amore, the platform’s new prohibitions strive to stamp out “Harmful Misinformation.”

“Misinformation is defined as content that is inaccurate or false,” the update explains. “We will remove misinformation that causes significant harm to individuals, our community, or the larger public regardless of intent.”

What constitutes “significant harm”?

Here are some examples

• Illness
• Property damage of large scale
• Serious physical injury
• Death

Additionally: “Severe psychological trauma.”

On top of all that annihilation, there’s one more way you can no longer destroy the world.

Users aren’t anymore allowed to engage in the following:

• A breach of trust in public institutions, processes, such as elections and governments.

So if you don’t trust the government, you’d best not admit it. Such an act could wreak “harm.”

Mike Pence, a TikTok twerker and unlikely violator of the law, point out an example:



As for “scientific bodies,” such would presumably include one Anthony Fauci, as he’s declared himself The Science.

In order to get it right, you’ll need to sort out an array of assertions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y50QErFp9WY

There are other no-nos as well:

• Inciting hatred or prejudice through misinformation
• Panik-inducing misinformation about emergency situations
• Medical misinformation that can cause harm to an individual’s physical health
• Inaccurate content that leads to confusion among community members regarding elections and other civic processes
• Content that is conspiratorial includes content that targets a person or protected group. It also contains a call to violence or denies the existence of a tragic or violent event.
• The digital forgeries, also known as synthetic media or manipulated media, are used to mislead the users and do significant damage to the person or the society.

Social media has become more sophisticated.

In March of 2020, Twitter outlawed making fun of someone’s age.

It posed many questions at the time:

We need to ensure that conversations between marginalized people, such as those using reclaimed terminology, are protected. …

How can — or should — we factor in considerations as to whether a given protected group has been historically marginalized and/or is currently being targeted into our evaluation of severity of harm?

How do we account for “power dynamics that can come into play across different groups?

It is indeed.

Also from the Bluebird’s rules:

It is forbidden to target others using repeated slurs, tropes, or any other content intended to dehumanize or degrade a protected group. Targeted misgendering and deadnaming transgender people is prohibited.

Free expression in America was once valued. But that was back when words couldn’t break your bones.

The radiologist will now see enlightenment as an Xray. And wokeness, the radiologist.

Diagnosis: We’ve all been shattered.

Evidently the government is more fragile than us. Uncle Sam is a sensitive megalomaniac, so don’t dare indicate mistrust.

TikTok is a good place to keep your cynicism at bay.

The five-year-old company — with over one billion account holders, most of them young — is working on a more unified America.

And if you think that makes its users some sort of sheep, they’re probably fine with it:

The Tiktok ages have been entered by sheep and there is now a dancer sheep at tiktok. pic.twitter.com/oKUDTYrHl7

— AtT | LittleWelshSheep☕ (@LittleWlshSheep) December 24, 2021

-ALEX

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