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The Washington Post says it's almost

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impossible to find videos of Hong Kong's

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pro-democratic movements opposing

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Beijing's regime on the app.

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The Guardian is then.

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Which

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reveals facts to the least surprisingly, regarding the

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moderation policy of the Chinese social network.

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We got,

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uh, among other, leaked documents, which actually

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described TikTok's internal moderation rules

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that explained that some political content,

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including, if they mentioned to me, uh, the demonstrations

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in Diane Men Square.

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So in honor of people who are ugly

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or poor, it was explicitly uh said this.

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So this is

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content that will be moderated by TikTok.

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Are also

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particularly monitored the content related to

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Tibet's independence, the situation in Taiwan,

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President Trump, Putin, Kim Jong-in or the

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LGBT community.

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Moderators receive extremely

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clear guidelines in terms of topics to be banned.

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Or

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in any case, to make it invisible.

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Some of there continent

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modération or I wit put censorship moderation

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guidelines matched the those regulations that had been put

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out by the Chinese Party state almost you know identically.

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So

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there was certainly at that point in time a very close

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connection between what the Chinese Communist Party wanted

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and TikTok which was a Chinese app that was operating outside

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of China.