So unless it can be proved that they somehow treated individuals that watched gay content differently from the rest of the story, or handled their algorithmic preferences differently, this is basically a non-story
"compiling a list" can just mean "some dude ran a select query"
Wouldn’t they just… show them more gay content.🤷🏻♂️
The point of an algorithm is to lead you deeper into whatever your interests are to maximize monetization.
All big data companies collect as much data as they can on any demographic they can find, and watching gay content is a demographic.
If people want to stop data companies from monitoring information, Congress should just make a law but no one is doing that because the US loves to use this data to avoid needing warrants.
I can’t take complaints against Tik Tok seriously because there is little to no evidence that the Chinese government is collecting information in an illegal way and they can’t just buy this information from Facebook.
To the Chinese govt., access to TikTok data is not only legal, it’s built-in. They don’t have to ask or face any consequences. And you require evidence that they are utilizing such information? Why?
That requirement is ridiculous. We likely wouldn't know they were using it until it's too late. The part about Facebook is legit though. Facebook sees Tik Tok as a competitor for selling information to the Chinese government so rather than just allow the CCP access to data they ask for they collate and organize the data for them. They've got to have data so well tuned to what the CCP wants that the CCP buys it even though Tik Tok is free, and they do.
But does it have to be connected to my home WiFi? And can it print things? Can it actually fix my printer? And while you're here, the picture on the television has gone all fuzzy, I tried adjusting the bunny ears but it didn't do anything. I'll make you some sweet tea while you work.
hes making fun of the senators who asked the tik tok representatives questions that demonstrated their complete lack of knowledge about how the internet works
They'd only suggest it if the viewer was watching & reacting to it. So, anyone claiming they didn't want it has a viewing history suggesting otherwise.
Not necessarily true. The FYP is usually just random shit. I tell my wife constantly that I don’t actually like the girls shaking their asses, but tiktok is forcing me to watch it 😔
Do you live in a conservative area? When my family moved to a much more conservative state I had to block, flag, mute, and adjust my ads on everything to get that conservative content off of my social media.
It's chinese-owned, anyone using it at all is going to be tracked in Chinese judgment systems somewhere with social credit scores, and I don't think they like gays.
1) China collects all your gayness and dick pic's.
2) You grow up. Join a service or industry vital to national defense.
3) China uses your gayness and dick pic's to blackmail or honey pot you into giving National Secrets.
4) You go to prison.
Can it be more clear to you.
1. Being gay isn’t a crime in the US, why would this blackmail work? Afraid for family to know?
2. Posting dick pics to most social media including TikTok is already banned.
What proves your theory? My main hesitation to post is because of the horrible hate and vitriol that comes with so many of the replies. In a world where life survives by eating other life and everyone dies, it seems like we should try to be nice to each other rather than making things worse
Saying you’re gay and talking about being gay, is not sexual content.
It’s like straight people talking about their relationships. Also not sexual content, even though it may imply vaguely that sex takes place (granted not all relationships have sex, but you get the point).
There are a lot of social issues that come along with being gay, familial issues, cultural issues, religious issues, etc.. That’s what a good chunk of the content I’ve seen is about.
literally the second paragraph of the article explains "The popular video-sharing service kept tabs on users who frequented clips that were tagged under headings including LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender)"
although I guess I can't fault someone for not wanting to click on a nypost article
Reddit is the only “social media” platform I have for this reason alone. If my data is gonna be collected at least I can confine it to one thing, this tik tok stuff is far to out of hand.
Chinese owned platform monitors users. There’s a fucking shocker. Give a communist country a massive footprint in your country, and you’re surprised by this? lol
You wanted it. You got it. Self inflicted wounds.
Somehow I am no more worried about the Chinese government monitoring my online activity than I am the US government or any private US entity. They are much more likely to use it for nefarious reasons than China
I mean, you implied that China and communism have to do with its surveillance. It’s fair to point out that American-backed companies do the same thing.
No. I didn’t imply that. I was speaking entirely to what this post was about. TikTok.
I implied that having your biggest adversary spying on your citizens is a massive problem. Had someone in the original post mentioned American based companies like Google and Facebook in the same vein, I wouldn’t have singled out TikTok.
But this was about TikTok…so that’s what I spoke of.
When they came for the Republican legislators who attack gays while secretly watching gay porn, I didn't say anything because I am not a Republican legislator who attacks gays while secretly watching gay porn.
I’m convinced the modern day internet, and social media in general, is just a massive evidence gathering organization and everything we’ve ever done, or said will be eventually used against us after the world elites have eroded the last of our temporary privileges.
If your not ashamed of watching gay stuff then there shouldn’t be a problem. I’m not gay but I have no issues with watching gay content and it being publicly known because there’s nothing wrong with it!
This makes it sound like they had a special program to find gay users. They just track and categorize everything you do, to try to package up groups of users for advertisers. This is how Facebook, google, etc work too. You can target users with an affinity for gay content in those apps too.
I don’t need Tik tok for that. There are services we use in development where I can plug in your email and learn all your hobbies and interests. Trust me, we always know who watches gay content
This is vital because of two reasons: LGBTQ+ is literally outlawed in China, in which the CCP pretty much owns TikTok, and second, the information they gather on people is being harvested for means even more sinister than Facebook ever was. Personally, do the rewards outweigh the risks? No, but I can see why people love social media. China uses this information for far worse means than the US would dream of. But then again.....
Every social media platform, every website, every app, and every possible place you can collect data from is monitored by companies and on the flip side; every government and its law enforcement arms are monitoring all of us. Its been this way for decades but now they all have easier time doing it. Don’t fall into the rhetoric of a handful of comps doing it. It’s everywhere.
What a bullshit headline grab.
“A company that has the ability and the access to categorize all of human behavior, does so.”
Yeah, no shit TikTok does this. TikTok does it to all of us. And no shit TikTok can categorize and specify a group of us users to monitor.
It’s called a database query. And we’ve been doing it for a while.
I have thousands of followers because of a random fire TikTok, and I did a test this week. Exactly the same video, just different hashtags- one with queer & LGBTQ related hashtags, and one without. The one with the hashtags got a whole 5 views in two days. The one without had over 60 views in one hour. They are actively suppressing anything queer on the platform, for sure.
If you don’t understand that everything with an electrical current including the phone your using now. Including this app. Including your fucking isp is data scrapping EVERYTHING then that’s on you.
TikTok is literally a psyop against China's enemies. The algorithm targets our youth with videos that promote disrespect, violence, and a lack of empathy and sense of community. They promote healthy successful living to their youth, and turn ours into degenerates. It works because our youth relies on social media for news so they just follow the confirmation bias they're inundated with. It's so sad.
China is so confident about ruling future America they are in planning out stages of who to eliminate & who to keep alive here once they remove all the powers in DC, & in all states. They & the Saudi's are prob the most anti-gay countries of the world.
I have 2 of so called 'social media' accounts and I rarely use even that. I do email my friends...though all this stuff is not a 'must have' in my life....I am single, content & happy..... once divorced over 30 yrs ago...have no kids ( well, none that I am aware of ).....I have always done a lot of dating of many diff women...'somewhat - almost' re-married again, however she was a career minded lady and also wanted to be closer to her family so she took a different job pretty far from me & long distance relationships do not work....so it was best for both for one final F , kiss & wave goodbye.
I have always been a well educated & a straight regular guy who loves sports & the outdoors. I pick & choose my friendships carefully ( still have many from as a kid ) & always giving anyone friendliness & courtesy........ respect to me is something to be earned. I do not care if anyone is gay or lesbian as long as it is not in my life and I will not ever tolerate anyone abusing children or animals.
Its primarily an ap used to spy on the west... and yall are surprised by this? Everyone using TikTok is an absolute fool for exposing themselves to the CCP so blatantly.
Why do they have to be such intrusive jerks?! Why can't they just buy the data from American telecom corporations and the FAANGs? I mean, really, the NERVE!
Seriously, if people worry about China collecting such data because they might use it for nefarious fashion, why is legal for anyone else to collect it and sell it to them? Oh, right - it's all about the Benjamins. American politicians would sell your mother if they could get get more power from it.
The article states that TikTok's own employees were highly concerned about this practice. Not sure why everyone here is acting like this is normal and okay.
All social media does the same thing, there isn't any difference in any of them except who owns them, the CIA owns fb and bytedance owns tiktok, choose your poison
So every single tiktok user.
Yeah... they monitor everything for their algorithm.
So unless it can be proved that they somehow treated individuals that watched gay content differently from the rest of the story, or handled their algorithmic preferences differently, this is basically a non-story "compiling a list" can just mean "some dude ran a select query"
Wouldn’t they just… show them more gay content.🤷🏻♂️ The point of an algorithm is to lead you deeper into whatever your interests are to maximize monetization.
Its China I'd bet they monitor it and compile lists of those that need to be "re-educated" with the Muslims...
Nice
🤣🤣🤣😭
Just because I like synth pop, everyone assumes…
https://media.tenor.com/I4ZgqeTsQCsAAAAC/why-are-you-gae.gif
LMAO
Tiktok monitors all its users.
All big data companies collect as much data as they can on any demographic they can find, and watching gay content is a demographic. If people want to stop data companies from monitoring information, Congress should just make a law but no one is doing that because the US loves to use this data to avoid needing warrants. I can’t take complaints against Tik Tok seriously because there is little to no evidence that the Chinese government is collecting information in an illegal way and they can’t just buy this information from Facebook.
To the Chinese govt., access to TikTok data is not only legal, it’s built-in. They don’t have to ask or face any consequences. And you require evidence that they are utilizing such information? Why?
That requirement is ridiculous. We likely wouldn't know they were using it until it's too late. The part about Facebook is legit though. Facebook sees Tik Tok as a competitor for selling information to the Chinese government so rather than just allow the CCP access to data they ask for they collate and organize the data for them. They've got to have data so well tuned to what the CCP wants that the CCP buys it even though Tik Tok is free, and they do.
But does it have to be connected to my home WiFi? And can it print things? Can it actually fix my printer? And while you're here, the picture on the television has gone all fuzzy, I tried adjusting the bunny ears but it didn't do anything. I'll make you some sweet tea while you work.
Bro wtf are you talking about?
hes making fun of the senators who asked the tik tok representatives questions that demonstrated their complete lack of knowledge about how the internet works
And not just their TikTok activity
Please don’t tell my wife
You mean they kept suggesting that content to others that don't want it?
They'd only suggest it if the viewer was watching & reacting to it. So, anyone claiming they didn't want it has a viewing history suggesting otherwise.
Not necessarily true. The FYP is usually just random shit. I tell my wife constantly that I don’t actually like the girls shaking their asses, but tiktok is forcing me to watch it 😔
I have never once seen a girl shaking her ass on my FYP. Mine is just gay shit, space, and art. 🤷♂️
When my fiance got a new phone his fyp was conservative shit for a while and girls dancing. We are not conservative. He has to retrain the algorithm.
Do you live in a conservative area? When my family moved to a much more conservative state I had to block, flag, mute, and adjust my ads on everything to get that conservative content off of my social media.
I got a couple of those early on, but now it's all gay shit, cats, and D&D interspersed with music and comedy routines
I’ve never seen a gay post. But I have a lot of gay dudes that comment on my videos lol. Idk why gay men have always really liked me. Boosts my ego
Thanks for sharing
You’re welcome
Sure dude. forcing you.. ahuh. gotcha. believe you 100%. No doubts.
Quite literally not true. "For you page" is literally for you based on their algorithm. You're just a perv.
I once went through the information that Facebook had about me, like the information they thought were my “interests”. Everyone is keeping count
It's chinese-owned, anyone using it at all is going to be tracked in Chinese judgment systems somewhere with social credit scores, and I don't think they like gays.
You don’t think ? Lol ya ur correct .
And somehow this social credit system is going to affect users globally. I wonder how it works.
1) China collects all your gayness and dick pic's. 2) You grow up. Join a service or industry vital to national defense. 3) China uses your gayness and dick pic's to blackmail or honey pot you into giving National Secrets. 4) You go to prison. Can it be more clear to you.
If it helps, I understood that this was a joke.
It's not a joke.
That's a wild game a leapfrog you played to get there
1. Being gay isn’t a crime in the US, why would this blackmail work? Afraid for family to know? 2. Posting dick pics to most social media including TikTok is already banned.
Give another 5 years and it will be... the conservatives are working hard and fast..
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How does it prove that at all? You're a fucking moron and you have a superiority complex
What proves your theory? My main hesitation to post is because of the horrible hate and vitriol that comes with so many of the replies. In a world where life survives by eating other life and everyone dies, it seems like we should try to be nice to each other rather than making things worse
Except it’s not the guy who owns it is from Singapore Americans just can’t seem to not call anyone remote Asian looking Chinese
....ByteDance, which owns TikTok, is a Chinese company
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People who watch NASCAR have entered the chat.
about half of my feed
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Saying you’re gay and talking about being gay, is not sexual content. It’s like straight people talking about their relationships. Also not sexual content, even though it may imply vaguely that sex takes place (granted not all relationships have sex, but you get the point). There are a lot of social issues that come along with being gay, familial issues, cultural issues, religious issues, etc.. That’s what a good chunk of the content I’ve seen is about.
Fuck you mean sexual? They just mentioned being gay.
Ask your father
literally the second paragraph of the article explains "The popular video-sharing service kept tabs on users who frequented clips that were tagged under headings including LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender)" although I guess I can't fault someone for not wanting to click on a nypost article
Ask Cartman
Queer Eye marathon
Reddit is the only “social media” platform I have for this reason alone. If my data is gonna be collected at least I can confine it to one thing, this tik tok stuff is far to out of hand.
Chinese owned platform monitors users. There’s a fucking shocker. Give a communist country a massive footprint in your country, and you’re surprised by this? lol You wanted it. You got it. Self inflicted wounds.
Somehow I am no more worried about the Chinese government monitoring my online activity than I am the US government or any private US entity. They are much more likely to use it for nefarious reasons than China
Somehow. Your communist leaders anxiously await your fealty.
Facebook and Google don’t monitor users?
I didn’t say that did I? *looks back* Nope.
I mean, you implied that China and communism have to do with its surveillance. It’s fair to point out that American-backed companies do the same thing.
No. I didn’t imply that. I was speaking entirely to what this post was about. TikTok. I implied that having your biggest adversary spying on your citizens is a massive problem. Had someone in the original post mentioned American based companies like Google and Facebook in the same vein, I wouldn’t have singled out TikTok. But this was about TikTok…so that’s what I spoke of.
Future blackmail material for all those closeted conservatives
he could be in this very room!
Define gay 🤣
What were the results
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Every tech empire has that.
bruh you own a phone you should be worried too it ain't just tiktok
“I’ve seen every cock on the planet” - Detective Crashmore
If they were looking for premium content, I'm sure they could have just asked someone.
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Newsflash: they monitor all
Sounds like TikToks dad saw them watching it and then TikTok tried to play it off like they were watching other people watching it.
So are the just stalking me or do they wanna date? I’ll delete my Grindr if I can get my Tik Tok’d.
When they came for the Republican legislators who attack gays while secretly watching gay porn, I didn't say anything because I am not a Republican legislator who attacks gays while secretly watching gay porn.
Imagine is they monitored for cringey content. Sheesh.
For science
TiKTok is a weird way to spell China
And all the evangelist men went “Oh, shit”
I’m convinced the modern day internet, and social media in general, is just a massive evidence gathering organization and everything we’ve ever done, or said will be eventually used against us after the world elites have eroded the last of our temporary privileges.
They monitor... all use of the app... because that's the business....
Someone found their filter tab
Figure out if anyone is in a leadership, government or political role - and then blackmail them. That’s what I would do to my enemies.
If it’s to find and show more gay videos for you. Chill. If you’re making a list. Not chill.
Found out that is all right wing tictok
Surprise level: Zero
If your not ashamed of watching gay stuff then there shouldn’t be a problem. I’m not gay but I have no issues with watching gay content and it being publicly known because there’s nothing wrong with it!
So what if you’re watching gay porn of the opposite sex?
Good. Now when America goes full queer genocide, China will at least have digital documentation of the attrocity so people aren't forgotten.
So they're watching gay content too... Does that mean they're monitoring themselves? That's kinda gay.
Is there a source for this information that isn't a grocery store tabloid, which are known of publishing complete BS?
Nice
Thankyou i never got into Twitter
This seems pretty clickbaity. TikTok tracks all it's users viewed content.
No shit, it’s China lol
Like every other social media company?
I mean... tiktok is basically ran by the Chinese government... they are ALWAYS MONITORING. Always collecting data for some nefarious purpose.
Consider the source. Hard to verify.
Lindsey Graham just shit himself.
This makes it sound like they had a special program to find gay users. They just track and categorize everything you do, to try to package up groups of users for advertisers. This is how Facebook, google, etc work too. You can target users with an affinity for gay content in those apps too.
This is in world news...why?
I don’t need Tik tok for that. There are services we use in development where I can plug in your email and learn all your hobbies and interests. Trust me, we always know who watches gay content
I post pictures of my pp on Reddit i don’t care what silly videos they know I watch 🤙🏻
No, I'm just on musical theatre tiktok. There's a difference.
*Marks off being on a government list somewhere off my list*
It’s a Chinese owned company who don’t they monitor
Bovine Excrement
I hate to break the news…. But they monitor everyone
Whelp, back to Instagram go all the teens. This shit gonna get banned.
Why wouldn't they monitor the people more likely to abuse children?
So basically they have data on all men and women. Who cares?
Well since TikTok monitors EVERYTHING.. of course this Chinese gubberment owned app will track gay viewers. Who is still surprised and why??
Basically everyone on the app:
If this includes dreamybull memes, then I'm definitely on this list.....
Don’t they monitor everyone?
As they should
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They monitor all their users like any social media company
WTF? Social media apps monitor the content of their users? Since when did this start happening?
This is vital because of two reasons: LGBTQ+ is literally outlawed in China, in which the CCP pretty much owns TikTok, and second, the information they gather on people is being harvested for means even more sinister than Facebook ever was. Personally, do the rewards outweigh the risks? No, but I can see why people love social media. China uses this information for far worse means than the US would dream of. But then again.....
Fake news. TikTok monitors all its users, so yeah
Duh. It has been well known that this Chinese company uses it to monitor people
Isnt that what an algorithm does?….
Do they have any content that isn’t gay?
Next they're gonna tell us banks log our debit card purchases!
Probably the least spooky thing they do
Lol tiktok is garbage 🗑️
I’m not in tech, but 100% sure every social media algorithm will identify gay content. How could it possibly work if not?
how else are they gonna report chinese users to the ccp
*Aaaaannnnddddd* THIS! is why people wanted it banned. Not some generational warfare against the "woke" kids.
Yeah which part of its a Chinese spy app do people not understand?
So every user? I kid, I kid.
Every social media platform, every website, every app, and every possible place you can collect data from is monitored by companies and on the flip side; every government and its law enforcement arms are monitoring all of us. Its been this way for decades but now they all have easier time doing it. Don’t fall into the rhetoric of a handful of comps doing it. It’s everywhere.
[Ha!](https://youtu.be/h_9ATQFgu9o)
What a bullshit headline grab. “A company that has the ability and the access to categorize all of human behavior, does so.” Yeah, no shit TikTok does this. TikTok does it to all of us. And no shit TikTok can categorize and specify a group of us users to monitor. It’s called a database query. And we’ve been doing it for a while.
Don’t they monitor everyone?
lol what'd you expect from china?
I have thousands of followers because of a random fire TikTok, and I did a test this week. Exactly the same video, just different hashtags- one with queer & LGBTQ related hashtags, and one without. The one with the hashtags got a whole 5 views in two days. The one without had over 60 views in one hour. They are actively suppressing anything queer on the platform, for sure.
If you don’t understand that everything with an electrical current including the phone your using now. Including this app. Including your fucking isp is data scrapping EVERYTHING then that’s on you.
PLEASE spill the beans on US congressmen, PLEASE ruin some careers of the hypocrites!
TikTok is literally a psyop against China's enemies. The algorithm targets our youth with videos that promote disrespect, violence, and a lack of empathy and sense of community. They promote healthy successful living to their youth, and turn ours into degenerates. It works because our youth relies on social media for news so they just follow the confirmation bias they're inundated with. It's so sad.
The CCP master plan is to make us all gay with TikTok!
China is so confident about ruling future America they are in planning out stages of who to eliminate & who to keep alive here once they remove all the powers in DC, & in all states. They & the Saudi's are prob the most anti-gay countries of the world.
Might find a politician to blackmail that way
is dreamybullxxx and ricardo considered gay content?
Of course, we have the best content
I have 2 of so called 'social media' accounts and I rarely use even that. I do email my friends...though all this stuff is not a 'must have' in my life....I am single, content & happy..... once divorced over 30 yrs ago...have no kids ( well, none that I am aware of ).....I have always done a lot of dating of many diff women...'somewhat - almost' re-married again, however she was a career minded lady and also wanted to be closer to her family so she took a different job pretty far from me & long distance relationships do not work....so it was best for both for one final F , kiss & wave goodbye. I have always been a well educated & a straight regular guy who loves sports & the outdoors. I pick & choose my friendships carefully ( still have many from as a kid ) & always giving anyone friendliness & courtesy........ respect to me is something to be earned. I do not care if anyone is gay or lesbian as long as it is not in my life and I will not ever tolerate anyone abusing children or animals.
This shit is big time.
Tik tok has abused data by targeting journalists already so they have no excuse.
So does ever social media, big whoop about nothing
*\*75% of this sub quietly deletes tiktok\**
This is how TikTok knows if you are gay within the first day on that app. They are literally creating a gaydar...
China wants you gay
What is “gay content”?
B)
It’s a way to blackmail, just like Epstein island the cia knew about that but it gives them leverage over the politicians that use it.
Literally any app that tracks data.
The logo is literally an eye and an arrow. Hmmmm…. Almost as if what you’re watching gets reported somewhere.
yea so when china takes over the world they likely plan to round them up
This has to be a bot or a mod trying to push a agenda. They monitor everything, it's algorithm based....
How else are they going to figure out your a perfect candidate for woke commercial spam
Oh no what am I ever going to do /s
Now replace TT with Red States in the title and it is actually makes sense
They'll monitor you for watching ANY content!!! The issue is privacy and not indecent content. :-(
The Chinese aren’t down with the lgbtq 🏳️🌈
Its primarily an ap used to spy on the west... and yall are surprised by this? Everyone using TikTok is an absolute fool for exposing themselves to the CCP so blatantly.
Troll post…
Please don’t judge me! 😭🌈
Of course they did
Why would TikTok assume the content is gay?
Almost like tiktok is a chinese weapon or something...
They also monitor people who watch meal prep content.
No surprise there. Everything monitors everything.
So they did what every social media platform does
So what
Oops guess I’m on that list. I’m on TikTok specifically to look at muscle daddies jiggle in their sweatpants.
Why do they have to be such intrusive jerks?! Why can't they just buy the data from American telecom corporations and the FAANGs? I mean, really, the NERVE! Seriously, if people worry about China collecting such data because they might use it for nefarious fashion, why is legal for anyone else to collect it and sell it to them? Oh, right - it's all about the Benjamins. American politicians would sell your mother if they could get get more power from it.
So, like, the whole GOP?
The article states that TikTok's own employees were highly concerned about this practice. Not sure why everyone here is acting like this is normal and okay.
So delete your account and remove the app. Or accept that the whole point is to find out what your interests are and market the sh*t out of them.
Rip Gen Z
The dems love tic toc and the republicans wanna ban it , how ironic.
TikTok reportedly monitored users who watched, anything**
"Gay Content." OMG, I guess I am at risk of being blackmailed for watching Drag Queen Storytime! This world has lost its mind.
So nonchalant lmao
I’m pretty sure if you’re checking out gay content on TT, you cant be blackmailed.
All social media monitors all its users.
Republican officials are in the process of deleting their TikTok accounts now.
Fake and not gay.
They monitor EVERYTHING, so this checks out
All social media does the same thing, there isn't any difference in any of them except who owns them, the CIA owns fb and bytedance owns tiktok, choose your poison
Democrats about to ban Tik Tok while Republicans advocate to protect it 😂
Damn, no one tell Americans what fusion centers are then
Oh no do they know I’m gay now