TikTok censored posts by users it identified as disabled, fat, or LGBTQ+ as a means to combat bullying, and now they're saying the approach 'was wrong'
between the ages of 12 and 17 have been bullied online — a statistic that only gets more devastating for young people who also belong to marginalized groups. Yet while plenty of groups have attempted to put an end to the epidemic, there has yet to be a concerted solve — and some solutions seem to backfire more spectacularly than others.
In a misguided attempt to lessen the burden of bullying on its platform, TikTok began censoring posts by users it identified as disabled, fat, or LGBTQ+,. An anonymous source said that the attempt to curb cyberbullying led to discrimination at the hands of staffers who had to make quick judgements about whether users belonged to groups TikTok perceived as particularly vulnerable to bullying. If they were, the platform allegedly suppressed those users' videos without their consent.
In the guidelines TikTok wrote for how to suppress these accounts, which were obtained by NetzPolitik, staffers were instructed to target users “susceptible to bullying or harassment based on their physical or mental condition,” including those with “facial disfigurement, autism, Down syndrome, disabled people, or people with some facial problems.” They also restricted users who had rainbow flags in their bios or described themselves as LGBTQ+.
This is just the latest scandal in a tumultuous few months for the app. In August, users created a stream of
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