“I’m curious why people are supporting the TikTok platform or any videos made on the platform.

I was ban from the reddit sub [r/TikTok](https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTok/) for posting a single comment about how TikTok censors Tiananmen and Tibet references. Sure would be a shame if others knew about it. [https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/d948n2/tiktok\_censors\_references\_to\_tiananmen\_and\_tibet?sort=confidence](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/d948n2/tiktok_censors_references_to_tiananmen_and_tibet?sort=confidence)

But who cares about that right? It’s not like…

TikTok Admits It Suppressed Videos by Disabled, Queer, and Fat Creators. [https://slate.com/technology/2019/12/tiktok-disabled-users-videos-suppressed.html](https://slate.com/technology/2019/12/tiktok-disabled-users-videos-suppressed.html)

TikTok has been accused of secretly gathering “vast quantities” of user data and sending it to servers in China. [https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/business-50640110](https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/business-50640110)

TikTok is paying the FTC a fine of $5.7 million for collecting the data of kids under 13. [https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/2/28/18244996/tiktok-children-privacy-data-ftc-settlement](https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/2/28/18244996/tiktok-children-privacy-data-ftc-settlement)

TikTok censors all reference to the Hong Kong protests. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/15/tiktoks-beijing-roots-fuel-censorship-suspicion-it-builds-huge-us-audience/?noredirect=on](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/15/tiktoks-beijing-roots-fuel-censorship-suspicion-it-builds-huge-us-audience/?noredirect=on)

TikTok has had children as young as 8 targeted by sexual predators and Police are urging parents to check the app privacy settings. [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?ie=UTF-8&client=ms-android-google&source=android-browser&q=cache:https:%2F%2Fwww.scotsman.com%2Flifestyle-2-15039%2Ftiktok-privacy-settings-everything-parents-need-to-know-about-the-video-app-1-4872619](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?ie=UTF-8&client=ms-android-google&source=android-browser&q=cache:https:%2F%2Fwww.scotsman.com%2Flifestyle-2-15039%2Ftiktok-privacy-settings-everything-parents-need-to-know-about-the-video-app-1-4872619)

[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6694671/amp/Predators-grooming-children-young-eight-popular-live-streaming-apps.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6694671/amp/Predators-grooming-children-young-eight-popular-live-streaming-apps.html)

TikTok’s privacy page admits to collecting as much data as possible, from meta data, GPS location, and pulls all contact information on someone’s Facebook and instagram (if connected) and phone, while allowing themselves to use this data for whatever they want.

[https://www.tiktok.com/legal/privacy-policy?lang=en](https://www.tiktok.com/legal/privacy-policy?lang=en)

TikTok has been labeled a “threat to national security” by the USA government.

[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rU0zzHKHxC8](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rU0zzHKHxC8)

[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6jOJe9U9Wj8](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6jOJe9U9Wj8)

[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/01/technology/tiktok-national-security-review.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/01/technology/tiktok-national-security-review.html)

TikTok is ban from US Navy mobile devices, as it’s been declared a cybersecurity threat.

[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/21/us-navy-bans-tiktok-from-mobile-devices-saying-its-a-cybersecurity-threat](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/21/us-navy-bans-tiktok-from-mobile-devices-saying-its-a-cybersecurity-threat)

TikTok had vulnerabilities as recent as last month, which allowed attackers to gain control of users accounts to upload videos or view private videos, while a separate flaw allowed attackers to retrieve personal information from TikTok user accounts through the company’s website.

[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/technology/tiktok-security-flaws.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/technology/tiktok-security-flaws.html)

Its almost as if Tiktok is China’s attempt at pushing their propaganda out to the world while also having massive privacy issues. China has realized that to control the global population you have to control social media and what people see. So for the last year they have been pouring a ton of money into getting their social media app to be accepted and widely used- through a campaign of paid content creation/submission, and vote manipulation. Once they have widescale buy in, their backdoor monitoring and data collection will have free reign.

I find it a worrying trend how easily Reddit is blindly uvoting these videos to the front page and supporting a company with such privacy concerns, and an obvious agenda that is censoring and controlling the information you see.

The Chinese propaganda machine is already being pushed on Reddit threads just like this one.

There are reddit accounts that clearly have a pro-Chinese agendas posting in threads like these daily. I recently called out one of these reddit users via this comment: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/esks18/z/ffbixet](https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/esks18/z/ffbixet)

and low and behold the user [u/littleking123](https://www.reddit.com/u/littleking123/) immediately deleted their account. Thankfully you can see a web cache of their pro-TikTok, pro-China, and anti-Hong Kong comments here.

[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?ie=UTF-8&client=ms-android-google&source=android-browser&q=cache%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fuser%2Flittleking123](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?ie=UTF-8&client=ms-android-google&source=android-browser&q=cache%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fuser%2Flittleking123)

It’s still not too late to do something. I’m posting this here for exposure so others know what’s going on.”