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• Vox Sara Morrison on x

  TikTok is accused of censoring anti-Chinese government content, again

• @x_feroza Feroza.X on x

  UPDATE: tik tok has issued a public apology and gave me my account back. Do I believe they took it away because of a unrelated satirical video that was deleted on a previous deleted account of mine? Right after I finished posting a 3 part video about the Uyghurs? No. pic.twitter.…

• @niubi Bill Bishop on x

  and it is interesting that a http://musical.ly/ investor deleted this tweet within minutes of me retweeting it. wonder why. one of the benefits if living behind the GFW for a few years is you learn to screenshot interesting things, you just never know... https://twitter.com/... h…

• @moorehn Heidi N. Moore on x

  This teenager was only reinstated because she was viral enough to raise an outcry. How many people does TikTok block regularly for political content without anyone much noticing? https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

• @drewharwell Drew Harwell on x

  One overlooked aspect: TikTok banned a teenager for posting “terrorist content.” This is that content: A joke video with half a second of Osama bin Laden's face. @x_feroza said, “That was me making a joke to cope with the racism” she faces as a Muslim girl https://www.washingtonp…

• @waqas_x Waqas on x

  TikTok has behaved surprisingly well and much more transparently than Fb or Twitter regarding that eyelash curler video issue: https://newsroom.tiktok.com/ ...

• @staska Stasys Bielinis on x

  5. Banning device which recently created multiple accounts on your social media service, one of which was banned after our limited smartness AI detected possibly terrorist content is a no brainer next step 6. Looks like what happened with TikTok here: https://www.techmeme.com/...

• @drewharwell Drew Harwell on x

  The timeline: Nov. 15: She posts video including bin Laden. Has account banned. Starts new account. Nov. 23: She posts videos about detention camps in China, which go viral. Nov. 25: Her phone is banned. But TikTok says it's related to the Nov. 15 video, not viral criticism

• @gissounia Gissou Nia on x

  Yeah... not really buying that TikTok took her account down cause of her Osama bin Laden content. The timing seems suspicious 🤔 Regardless I am glad her Uighur content has new life on other people's active accounts 😭

• @dpanjana Deepanjana on x

  It doesn't seem straightforward. Look: “There's a trend on TikTok where you post like, ‘The type of boys or girls I liked when I was little,’” Aziz said. “Mine was like, ‘I liked a lot of white guys, but now I like brown people’ and at the end was [bin Laden] as a joke.”

• @sane_kale San kale on x

  Watch the video featuring Osama bin Laden that TikTok says it suspended a teen over after her other video criticizing China went viral http://dlvr.it/RKGKyW via alternativemedia pic.twitter.com/ZMJckMVc6u

• @drewharwell Drew Harwell on x

  New: TikTok says sorry, admits some fault re: removing viral video about China's detention camps. But @x_feroza isn't convinced: “TikTok is trying to cover up this whole mess. I won't let them get away with this” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @TonyRomm

• @hadas_gold Hadas Gold on x

  Wow. “TikTok also acknowledged that her video about China had been removed for 50 minutes on Wednesday morning, which it attributed to a “human moderation error.” https://twitter.com/...

• @tonyromm Tony Romm on x

  NEW: TikTok admits error after penalizing 17-year-old user who posted political videos. TikTok reverses device plan, plans internal review, and revealed new takedown stats — but the teen says the timeline suggests censorship. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...