TikTok To Ban All Political Fundraising On Its Platform (theverge.com) 40
TikTok says it plans to ban all fundraising activity soon -- only six weeks before the November midterm elections. The Verge reports: In a blog post, TikTok's president of global business solutions, Blake Chandlee, said the company would immediately turn off all advertising and monetization features, like gifting and tipping, for politicians and parties on the platform. Additionally, accounts belonging to governments, politicians, and political parties will have to apply for verification. Over the next few weeks, TikTok expects to roll out a sweeping ban on campaign fundraising altogether. The ban will prohibit politicians and parties from using the platform to direct viewers to their campaign websites to make donations. TikTok spokesperson Jamie Favazza told The Verge on Tuesday that the company plans to enforce these new rules "through a combination of technology and human moderation."
"We will work with governments, politicians, and political parties to verify their account either when they submit a verification request, or if we identify an account we believe belongs to a government, politician, or political party, we will confirm the authenticity of the account and begin the verification process."
"We will work with governments, politicians, and political parties to verify their account either when they submit a verification request, or if we identify an account we believe belongs to a government, politician, or political party, we will confirm the authenticity of the account and begin the verification process."
Step in the right direction (Score:5, Insightful)
Maybe. (Score:5, Interesting)
Step in the right direction
It's more likely that this is a decision by the CCP to minimize Democratic influence and fundraising on a largely untapped generation. If the CCP can maximize US political infighting then there will be less focus on their own misdeeds. The other thing is that the CCP despises democracy and will do anything to quash any mention of it.
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The other thing is that the CCP despises democracy and will do anything to quash any mention of it.
No, it just despises democracy mentioned within its own borders. It couldn't give a fuck about other countries that choose to be a democracy.
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Of course but they don't want tiktok workers exposed to it.
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More likely they see TikTok as a harder platform to influence. Because it's video based they can't just create a fake account with AI generated portrait of a white person and start posting memes and text messages. They would have to post videos, using actors who look and sound American. Much more work.
Better to keep all the political stuff on Facebook where it's easy to push any message you like. Facebook is the ideal platform for political influencing. It allows you to target the most gullible and easily p
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More likely they see TikTok as a harder platform to influence.
This is definitely not the case. The CCP has already paid TikTok "influencers" to push there own agenda in the past. I think it was even a story on slashdot.
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Geez, what a stupid idiot troll. Really? Have you sent money to The Former Guy's begathons for legal support?
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Umm... was this intended to be a response to a different comment?
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Are you sure?
This does not stop political BS, just fund raising.
When you only have one authoritarian party and there is no choice then I suppose suppressing political money makes sense. The current environment in the US, where anonymous donors can spend as much as they want, does not seem like the best solution either. There must be some middle ground that makes more sense.
I don't see tiktok changing the world here.
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The only people who monetize our viewers (Score:2)
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Have you looked at the current Republican platform?
- Denying all medical care, even non-abortion related, to pregnant women because of the "risk" of it accidentally inducing an abortion, even if it kills the expectant women (one example: https://www.reuters.com/world/... [reuters.com])
- Separating kids from their parents and sending them to torture camps, to dissuade refugees and asylum seekers from entering the country despi
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if you think Reuters and The Atlantic are "extremist" just accept that your brain is rotted out from alternative media.
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I hate to break it to you, but "neo-liberal" is the opposite of extreme, it's actually pretty middle of the road and really falls more onto the right of the political spectrum, especially economically as neoliberalism is about that free-trade, laissez-faire and pro-business. Maybe take a minute and actually learn what people on the left actually believe, things get a lot weirder than just neoliberalism or even socialism.
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He's saying MSNBC and CNN are corporatist.
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Actually, "neo-liberal" is pretty much Nixonian/Raygun GOP.
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So, you deny that the GOP wants to ban abortions? Really (Sen. Rubio cosponsored Graham's bill to do so).
Any of the stories about the ICE camps that the Former Guy had refugees and emigrees to? (And where did *YOUR* immigrant ancestors go?)
The Former Guy asking about that?
Geez, you need to stop drinking the Kool-Aid (tm).
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dunno, the GOP seems to have an unhealthy interest in child sex and war
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They're only doing this because (Score:2)
If it's applied to commentators though it'll probably hurt the left wing more than the right wing. The right wing can always get more money from Daddy Warbucks but the left wing generally has to beg for tips.
Reframing it as a clever strategic move (Score:2)
Of course! (Score:2)
The Chinese government doesn't want young people thinking they have any role in governance or choice.
I've Said This Before (Score:1)
Is that the problem? (Score:2)
Yes, paid political content is absolute garbage.
Isn't anyone sick of the political content that people feel obliged to share with you FOR FREE?
Time to ban TikTok - never mind the fundraising (Score:2)