The famous “Tik Tok” platform has recently adopted strict rules, underlining that those who violate them will be subject to ban.
Under the new policy, posted on China’s official website, “someone posts content that violates one of China’s guidelines community of TikTok”, the account will accumulate a violation and if the account meets the warning limit within one of the available features in publications such as commentaries and broadcasts in direct, or bullying and harassment. It will be banned in permanently.”
The above policy limits may vary, depending on whether the violation is likely to cause harm to community members. For example, there may be a stricter threshold for violating TikTok’s policy when promoting questionable ideologies than sharing spam with low harm.
While “Tik Tok” has emphasized in its new policies, that it will enforce a permanent ban after the first violation of “serious violations” by some users, including promoting or threatening violence, viewing or facilitating child sexual abuse materials or the visualization of violence or torture in the real world.
permanently banned
The platform, owned by the Chinese company “ByteDance”, also indicated that accounts that witness the accumulation of a large number of cumulative alerts, as a result of policy violation or misuse, will be permanently banned.
And “Tik Tok” indicated that the notice is valid for 90 days after it is sent to the user, then it will be automatically deleted from the system.
And announced the release of a new tool, which helps users track blocked content in the last 90 days, which will appear in the “Account Status” section of the application’s “Security Center”.
Permanent cancellation
There is also another feature that ‘Tik Tok’ offers, which is to start notifying content creators, in case in which is close to permanently deleting their account.
The ‘Tik Tok’ platform confirmed in its statement that these new changes aim to increase transparency about its enforcement decisions and help the community better understand how to follow community guidelines.
In this regard, “Tik Tok” revealed in its statement that repeat offenders tend to follow a certain pattern and that nearly 90% of them violate by continuously using the same feature, while over 75% repeatedly violate the same category of policy.
Is one studio conducted by the Center for Fighting digital hate in Britain has confirmed that the “Tik Tok” platform suggests violence and suicide videos to teenagers as soon as they open new accounts on the platform.
The CEO of the Chinese company “TikTok”, Xu Ziqiu, agreed to testify before the US Congress next March, amid a wave of calls to ban the application of short videos, under the pretext of spying allegations of users.
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