I was on tiktok for a couple months and never saw anything like that! Lots of memes and some really creative stuff with music and sketching but absolutely nothing pornographic.
tiktok feed will show you what it thinks you want to see more of based on your past behavior. It looks like you and the parent commenter have different viewing habits!
This does highlight a major issue in technology+policy+society -- there's no way to "point fingers" and say "Look at what this company is doing!". You can say "Facebook is doing bad thing X" but when I open Facebook I don't see it.
Contrast to something like a coal company strip mining, and everyone can see the same thing with their own eyes.
> there's no way to "point fingers" and say "Look at what this company is doing!"
What do you mean? The fact that different people may see different things in their feeds doesn't mean you can't point out differences in (for example) social network's policies (sometimes this is more of an unwritten policy) on media that depicts children's bodies.
I personally don't have TikTok but I have never found a single video of half naked children dancing on YouTube, Facebook or IG that wasn't a reposted TikTok video (I have read about videos like that being on YouTube, though). And I don't think it has much to do with the fact that I don't like to see this kind of videos in my feed. It also makes sense given the demographics of TikTok app.
I don't have any serious citations to give, this is of course anectodical as it's my personal experience and I don't even have TikTok, but anyway I don't think one can dismiss worries like this just by blaming the algorithm. Most of the time that content shouldn't be there for the algorithm to recommend it in the first place.
A 16 years old who dances half naked to a popular song and rakes in millions of views, to me is wrong. Especially on a platform where you don’t need to register to watch the content.
I’ve never been on tik tok, just saw videos reposted on Reddit
