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Comment by netheril96 | Hacker News Reader

Pure nonsense. If China’s TikTok (or douyin to be accurate) were focused on those, it would never have been popular in the first place.

Source: I am Chinese who does use douyin and have seen much discussion on China’s Internet on how douyin is addictive and damaging to children.

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Douyin is still heavily censored like all other Chinese platforms, right? If so, why are the above content restrictions so unbelievable?

I can believe that there may be a policy to push educational material to kids but that doesn't contradict with the claim that such content doesn't drive traffic. So the initial claim about what's actually viewed on Douyin is way off the mark.

I still don't follow. You accept that content on Douyin is controlled, but not to the degree that's being reported? And that censorship is absolute, but the engineering of all content flows based on age doesn't exist ?

No I am saying that all that engineering could reveal human desire but not necessarily change it. They could push educational content to children but that doesn't mean children would take it. Also it is well known Douyin's focus and success lies in live streaming e-commerce.

> They could push educational content to children but that doesn't mean children would take it.

Isn't that a different point to the one being made? I thought you were arguing that pushing positive content to kids was an overblown story for some reason. That it wasn't really happening.

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