Report: TikTok prevents "ugly and poor" publications from appearing Why are you doing this?

Report: TikTok prevents "ugly and poor" publications from appearing
Why are you doing this?

A news report from The Intercept reported that tikTok video service directed its moderators to prevent people with "ugly faces" or who filmed videos in "slums" or "degraded housing" areas from being at the forefront of the widely watched For You suggestions section .

A spokesman for the site said that these changes existed in the past 

Parts of these discriminatory guidelines have been leaked in the past, revealing that TechTalk has deliberately banned gay and disabled publications from appearing in the proposed publications section. But from leaked documents, The Intercept has obtained more detailed information, including: banning publications with "strange physical shapes," such as "big bellies," or "ugly faces," such as "too wrinkled."

According to the documents, the guidelines prohibit publications from seemingly poor, living in a house with cracked walls or old-fashioned. TechTalk claims to be preventing bullying, but the notes accompanying these restrictions show that it's because TechTalk prevents it because it's less likely to attract new users.

A TechTalk spokesman told The Verge: The Intercept's guidelines are regional, not "for the Us market."

According to the report, TechTalk imposes restrictions on live broadcasting, prohibiting "controversial content," such as referring to tiananmen square, Tibet, Taiwan, police, or criticizing "political and religious leaders."

TechTalk has been under increasing scrutiny of oversight and data collection practices since last year, much of which is due to the fact that the service is owned by Chinese company ByteDance. The service was criticized after censoring pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. The United States of America has expressly expressed concerns about the application of national security. That's why Bite Dance thought about selling the app.

"It intends to stop Chinese oversight of global content," Teck-Tok said today. In a commentary for the Wall Street Journal, a service spokesman noted that supervisors in China were reviewing some international content, which is not included in the U.S. content.