Wikipedia is a perfectly acceptable starting point on the topic, documenting numerous instances of the censorship and linking sources of that information. Would you prefer I use Let Me Google That For You with the phrase "TikTok censorship"?
And exactly how much time or effort do think I need to spend with people who are supposed to be awake and paying attention that China is censoring information on platforms owned by Chinese companies? If I were dealing with astronomy students do you think I'd even attempt to provide source material if I said the Earth revolves around the sun?
Even though they still censor, normies still get way more access to information on tiktok than any other mainstream platform. There is so much conspiracy related topics floating around there. Why do you think our government is so worried about banning it?
Based on what methodology? Take as an example the leftist loonies at The Young Turks. 450k followers on TikTok, 5.8 million on Youtube. Now that isn't taking into account views/impressions or minutes of content viewed, but I don't think you'll find TikTok fares favorably in the "news/politics/opinion space" as it does in the "useless influencers" and "stupid dancing" metrics.
That's such a terrible cherry picked and flawed way of analyzing this. You're really going to compare subscribers between two platforms using a single account. When that account saw its limelight 5+ years ago before tiktok was even a relevant platform. A large percentage of those subscribers are inflated and meaningless even in the context of YT. Ofc they have no subscribers on tiktok. But raw metrics of political oriented content isn't even the core of my point either.
I asked YOU what metric supported YOUR assertion and you didn't provide any. So I picked one that was very easy to get. If you think you have access to better metrics, by all means get them and actually prove what you're saying.
I'm certainly not going to waste my time trying to find videos from the same creator released in the same time period covering the same subject and seeing if it had more views on Youtube or TikTok. I don't even think I have access to statistics like total minutes of video viewed or anything.
Are you insane? You think TikTok gives you access to uncensored information? Go read some of the things they censor on TikTok:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_TikTok
The US Government's problem with TikTok isn't that it is uncensored, it is that they aren't the ones controlling the promotion and censorship.
You give us a wiki link to prove your point? Really? WTF
Wikipedia is censorship central, but if it's there it usually means it's so documented they can't hide it
Wikipedia is a perfectly acceptable starting point on the topic, documenting numerous instances of the censorship and linking sources of that information. Would you prefer I use Let Me Google That For You with the phrase "TikTok censorship"?
And exactly how much time or effort do think I need to spend with people who are supposed to be awake and paying attention that China is censoring information on platforms owned by Chinese companies? If I were dealing with astronomy students do you think I'd even attempt to provide source material if I said the Earth revolves around the sun?
Even though they still censor, normies still get way more access to information on tiktok than any other mainstream platform. There is so much conspiracy related topics floating around there. Why do you think our government is so worried about banning it?
Based on what methodology? Take as an example the leftist loonies at The Young Turks. 450k followers on TikTok, 5.8 million on Youtube. Now that isn't taking into account views/impressions or minutes of content viewed, but I don't think you'll find TikTok fares favorably in the "news/politics/opinion space" as it does in the "useless influencers" and "stupid dancing" metrics.
That's such a terrible cherry picked and flawed way of analyzing this. You're really going to compare subscribers between two platforms using a single account. When that account saw its limelight 5+ years ago before tiktok was even a relevant platform. A large percentage of those subscribers are inflated and meaningless even in the context of YT. Ofc they have no subscribers on tiktok. But raw metrics of political oriented content isn't even the core of my point either.
I asked YOU what metric supported YOUR assertion and you didn't provide any. So I picked one that was very easy to get. If you think you have access to better metrics, by all means get them and actually prove what you're saying.
I'm certainly not going to waste my time trying to find videos from the same creator released in the same time period covering the same subject and seeing if it had more views on Youtube or TikTok. I don't even think I have access to statistics like total minutes of video viewed or anything.