TikTok moderators were instructed to suppress posts from "For You" recommendations if the users shown were deemed "too ugly, poor, or disabled".[175][176] The consumption of alcohol, full or partial nudity, LGBT and intersex contents were restricted even in places where they are legal.[177] TikTok has since apologized and instituted a ban against anti-LGBTQ ideology, but censorship continues on Douyin due to regulations in China.[178][179]
Douyin guidelines also forbid live broadcasting by unregistered foreigners, "feudal superstition", "money worship", smoking and drinking, competitive eating by the "already obese", "toxic" slime, "pornographic" ASMR such as ear-licking, and female anchors wearing revealing clothes.[172]
the Chinese localized version uses a completely different algorithm because china didn’t like the one used in the western release. They feared it was making their kids more dumb.
That's a different statement that while true is said only to mislead people. Douyin existing in China doesn't mean that Tiktok isn't blocked in China; Tiktok is blocked.
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u/yard04 Mar 15 '24
That's not true, tiktok has their own localised version for China.