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An edited meme image featuring two stills from MegaMind. The top still shows Titan speaking to a the mayor, who is labelled “TikTokers getting censored by China” and saying “You have freed us!” overlaid. Titan has a US flag as a label, and is saying “Oh, I wouldn’t say freed, more like under new management.”

  • Schmoo@slrpnk.net
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    5 months ago

    The point I’m trying to make is that this:

    Showing someone videos related to ones they like

    Is most often a trojan horse for this:

    suppressing or promoting videos with content your company has reason to want suppressed or promoted

    Which is basically the same as this:

    the government doing or compelling others to do the same.

    But more passive and less transparent.

    • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      Alright. I understand your point. I don’t believe there’s as much coordination as you do, but that’s fine.

      Do you understand what I’m saying, which is that there are three different things? And that a person saying “as long as there’s an algorithm there’s censorship” might be conflating some of those categories? Lemmy sorts and tries to present relevant data, but I have no reason to believe that it’s engaged in explicit or implicit state level censorship or propaganda.