TikTok curbed reach for people with disabilities
Found on Netzpolitik on Thursday, 05 December 2019
TikTok, the fast-growing social network from China, has used unusual measures to protect supposedly vulnerable users. The platform instructed its moderators to mark videos of people with disabilities and limit their reach. Queer and fat people also ended up on a list of „special users“.
Moderators were instructed to mark people with disabilities as „Risk 4“. This means that a video is only visible in the country where it was uploaded.
It's a bit of a twisted view to assume that healthy and pretty looking people cannot be bullied. Even more weird is the assumption that limiting a video to a country would stop bullying. Some might call that virtual euthanasia.