#SocialMedia#TikTok#China#ContentModeration#Censorship#Surveillance: "What rarely gets mentioned in these discussions, however, is the fact that the Chinese government has built the most comprehensive digital surveillance system in the world, which it primarily uses not to protect children, but to squash any form of dissent that may threaten the power of the Chinese Communist Party. “Everybody exists in a censored environment, and so what gets censored for kids is just one step on top of what gets censored for adults,” Jeremy Daum, a senior research scholar at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center and the founder of the site China Law Translate, told me.
It should set off warning bells for Americans that many states have explored legislation limiting internet access for minors in ways that mirror what China has done."
#SocialMedia#TikTok#APIs: "We don’t have any way of validating whether the hashtags we selected captured all of the content on TikTok in the US about the war in Gaza. However, there are some signs we had decent coverage. Some of the hashtags were popular enough that we observed ‘trend chasing’, where creators will add many trending hashtags to unrelated posts. We also know our initial hashtag selection was overbroad because we had to remove some after our collection. This doesn’t mean we captured all relevant hashtags, of course! The research API lets you query data by hashtag, description, and user, so to a certain extent, you need to know what you’re looking for. The research API returns data about public videos, video comments, and user accounts. It allows fine-grained searching by keyword and hashtag, but there is no equivalent of the Twitter firehose. We are thinking through methods to estimate ‘top content’, and prior work from other researchers has attempted this for other platforms. Because of the very strong imbalance of views to content, to understand what (most) people are seeing, the top 1% of content appears to be a pretty good approximation. However, it clearly wouldn’t help researchers who wanted to study posting activity, either by itself or in connection to view activity."
TikTok is suing the United States government in an attempt to stop the enforcement of last month’s bill, which would ban the app in the U.S unless its Chinese owner ByteDance sells up.
The lawsuit argues that the bill is an “unprecedented violation” of the First Amendment, and says that invoking national security concerns is not a sufficient reason for restricting free speech. NBC News has more, but we’re keen to hear what you think. Do you agree with the bill?
@TechDesk I‘ld like to use #TikTok by challenging them with their behavior directly … I don’t think that avoiding free speech is a good strategy to talk … especially I‘ld like to use the hashtag #reclaimtiktok, what is much bigger on the network …
Abgesehen davon, dass ich TikTok nicht mag weil ich deren Zweck nicht einsehe, nutzen es sehr viele und vor allem sehr junge Menschen und dies auch kommerziell. Wie eben YouTube & Co. und eigentlich nicht viel anders aber auch als politische Propaganda eine Konkurenz zusätzlich.
🧵 …wie schon weiter oben mal erwähnt, nun wird TikTok umfangreich kritisiert aber einige andere populäre Mini-#Video-Dienste sind nicht anders und lösen absolute mentale Sucht schädlich aus.
»Tiktok, Instagram Reels und Youtube Shorts: Sind wir süchtig nach Kurzvideos? #Tiktok's, #Instagram Reels und #Youtube Shorts ziehen Nutzer:innen regelmäßig in ihren Bann. Als #Sucht zählt das offiziell noch nicht. Ungefährlich sind die Plattformen dadurch aber noch lange nicht.«
🧵 …nicht nur das was in den oberen Toots über TikTok steht, sondern auch des hier. Das sieht nach dem inneren Beunruhigen von Gesellschaften um die Macht über sie und Staaten erleichtert zu erhalten.
»Radikalisierung junger Männer:Durch TikTok zu #islam'istischer Weltsicht: #Homophobie, Verbot außerehelichen Geschlechtsverkehrs und keine Freundschaft zu Nicht-#Muslim'en – Diese Inhalte finden sich auf #TikTok - und sie radikalisieren #Jugendliche.«