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TikTok’s news app censored mentions of Tibet and The Dalai Lama


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2020 Aug 24, 8:07pm   420 views  3 comments

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https://reclaimthenet.org/tiktoks-news-app-censored-mentions-of-tibet-and-the-dalai-lama/

A news app owned by TikTok censored news articles so that users could not read about Tibet, a region the Chinese regime does not recognize, and The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan people.

News Republic is an app that recommends headlines from various news outlets depending on the interests of the user. So far, the app, which was founded in 2014, has more than fifty million downloads on the Android platform alone. It even won an award in the “best news app” category in 2015.


And similar:

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War trailer censored in China for showing 1 second of Tiananmen Square footage

https://reclaimthenet.org/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-trailer-censored-in-china/

The teaser trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is banned in China as it contained imagery of the Tiananmen Square protests. The game is being developed by Treyarch and Raven Software, with a release scheduled before the end of this year.

With the official trailer release date, August 26, nearing – a teaser trailer was uploaded to YouTube last week which featured just about a second-long clip of the protests that took place in Tiananmen Square back in 1989. Based on the report by Apple Daily, it was found that the trailer created “negative backlash from mainland Chinese citizens.”

Considering China’s dubious practices and organized internet censorship campaigns, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to assume the Communist Chinese Party’s involvement in the censorship of the teaser trailer.

As the teaser trailer got banned in China, a second and slightly shorter version was released on YouTube and it did not contain the sequence of the Tiananmen protests.

The Tiananmen Square protests resulted in thousands of deaths as the People’s Liberation Army had opened fire on protesters back in 1989. China’s TikTok has been caught censoring the protests and, last year, during the 30th anniversary of the massacre, the CCP ordered a massive online censorship campaign to stop Chinese citizens from talking about it.


And just because I can, here is "tank man", the lone Chinese guy who stood up to a line of CCP tanks in Tienanmen Square:

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2   Automan Empire   2022 Jan 7, 11:26am  

The Dalai Lama came around the hippie groups I worked alongside in the early 90s in the "legalize marijuana" movement. My impression of him: Professional grifter. Also, some redundant albeit fringe sources claimed to have smoked opium with him, and when there was no more opium to smoke, he was ready to pivot to heroin.
3   Patrick   2024 Mar 2, 6:03pm  

https://barsoom.substack.com/p/political-conflict-in-the-age-of


Notably, TikTok isn’t used in China: at home, they use Douyin, a heavily regulated version that limits the time kids can spend on the app, and restricts content to educational subject matter. It’s hard to see how this is accidental: if the minds of an adversary’s populace can be boiled into porridge, while the home population is insulated, a state gains a powerful advantage.

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