“My question to you is: How do you plan to combat white supremacy when creators on this app can’t inform people about it?” he asked, looking into his phone’s camera. “Because there’s a white supremacy problem on TikTok! How do you plan on solving it?”
The next day, he sat down and did the same. The day after that, he started counting: “This is day 3 of asking TikTok CEO Vanessa Pappas to explain the content moderation guidelines,” the video says. “Even if they don’t want to release the algorithm that does that, just explain to me why sexist, racist, homophobic, Islamophobic, white nationalist, and neo-Nazi content is being kept up on this platform, but the moment I and plenty of other creators make a video trying to teach people about that so that they can be safe, it gets taken down.” Over a hundred days and 139,000 TikTok followers later, Zev is nowhere closer to getting an answer.
Editor s Note
The protest is for our lives, its for our future. We want SARS to
end but SARS is just the beginning. They should just wait for us.
Were not quiet anymore. [This response appears] typical of the
critical mass of protesters who are around 18-22 years old, are
particularly fearless, and are protesting for the first time. -
Ayodeji Rotinwa, Deputy Editor of African Arguments
Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, returning to Nigeria just
before the EndSars protests began, wrote this earlier this week: I arrived home from external commitments just over a week ago to
Around the world, there is ongoing debate over the extent to which speech should be regulated for the common good. On the one hand, restricting speech in certain contexts can provide key benefits, such as protecting minorities from harm and preventing extremist organizations from recruiting and spreading dangerous hate speech and misinformation. On the other hand, freedom of speech is a fundamental right of individuals to express their opinions and present meaningful political and social discourse.
Facebook has been a key battleground in this debate. As Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a statement detailing the corporation’s intended framework for content governance, “One of the most painful lessons I ve learned is that when you connect two billion people, you will see all the beauty and ugliness of humanity.” Indeed, since nearly its founding day, the company has struggled with the degree to which it bears responsibility for the content that its users post on the platform, includ