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>Was never a problem on TT to date.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_TikTok#LGBTQ+_an...

They went out of their way to pick on disabled people, out of all groups. I don't even think there's a party on either side of the spectrum that's like "fuck disabled people". It's pretty obvious that even before the recent acquisition they were trying to cater to a specific type of content.

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There is certainly at least one prominent politician who thinks its amusing to physically mock disabled people to get cheap laughs.

Right, but the point is that it hasn't turned into a salient culture war topic like trans people have. There's no political impetus for tiktok to oppress disabled people, yet they did it anyways.

> I don't even think there's a party on either side of the spectrum that's like "fuck disabled people".

Trump said to her niece about her disabled son: "maybe he should just die". The right is ableist, you can see it most everywhere, in their rhetoric, in their policies... They cut billions from healthcare programs in their big bill, that disproportionately benefited the physically diabled. Now a lot of these people will most likely die, as a direct result. This was a desired outcome.

different issue, but remains suppressed in those regions. That isn't really something the platform can influence or change. It either complies with local laws or is blocked in that region. Platform wide / world wide suppression of anit-genocide content is new.

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