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The LGBTQ+ community on TikTok is actually ridiculously huge. The videos using the LGBT and LGBTQ hash tags have a combined view count of more than 50 billion.

Maybe you're talking about the chinese app, because LGBTQ+ is doing great on the regular TikTok.

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It's interesting to me that the loudest voices about the apparent dangers of TikTok's existence have clearly never interacted with it at all even by proxy.

That doesn't mean that there aren't LGBT bans in certain countries, which is what the article was talking about.

And also, what prevents authoritarian CCP from ordering TikTok to ban LGBT contents overnight? They've done it with Uighur concentration camp/slave labor mentions, hong kong protests, massive flooding, etc.

I don't recall seeing anything close to this level of concern when e.g. Tumblr was filtering LGBT content from showing up in search and discovery.

But I suppose it's oh so different when China does it as opposed to when the US does it.

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