Over the past several months, we have sent you several media requests, but not even one has been answered. We were not asking them to provide trade secrets or proprietary data; we wanted simple answers.
Recently, our requests have focused on two areas: comments from online users that TikTok repeatedly says there are no violations for. This is a frequent theme among the emails we receive from readers and TikTok users.
As we said in TikTok: Promoting Hate, the AI that TikTok uses is poorly trained. It cannot recognize comments like the ones pictured to the left from SheepMD, or that utilize Diacritics, such as Nàzï.
“I took my business TikTok off,” says Ms. Rosenblum who asked we not use her first name, an artist who made most of her sales via TikTok videos. “These hate mongers find different ways to put such trash and garbage onto my comments.”
TikTok, there is the issue of Jewish content creators and those who want to share the Hamas agenda or show the angry side of Islam having their videos removed and being issued a strike.
We recently posted a comic strip on our own account. As soon as it went up, your bipolar AI flagged it. We appealed, and we won. You restored our video. The next day, you took it down again and didn’t even afford us the opportunity to appeal that seemingly mindless removal.
Here, you can even see the video we sent you, that you never bothered to respond to.
We shared a video of Shaykh Uthman, complete with his watermark. The video came directly from his TikTok page, but we received a strike for sharing it. The reason for the removal, and the strike was “Violent extremism.”
The original video remains. No violation was found.
“We’re a Full Gospel Christian organization, a church,” says Pastor Billingham, who asked we not use his real name. “We were kicked right off the TikTok for sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The masses came for us when we said we are standing with Israel. It went up from there.”
Pastor Billingham said that most comments his videos garnered were from pro-Hamas accounts and Islamic accounts.”
“We’re not trying to judge nobody,” says the Pastor, “but they was telling us if we don’t stop calling Jesus Christ God in the flesh, and the third part of the Trinity, we was going to burn in a hell of their making.”
Only one reported comment was ever removed by you, TikTok.
In the United States, Congress passed a bill that will give ByteDance six months to sell TikTok to a non-Chinese-owned company or face a nationwide ban. (Nazak Nikakhtar, a former Trump Commerce official and partner at Wiley Rein LLP, told Axios. ByteDance, headquartered in Beijing, is beholden to laws that could give the Chinese government access to sensitive TikTok user data, even if it’s stored elsewhere). The United States Senate must still vote on the bill before being sent to the President for his signature. Biden has promised to sign the bill into law once passed.
We don’t know whether a ban on TikTok would be effective. Some say the law would be challenged based on First Amendment grounds and the vague wording of the bill, which would allow the United States Government to ban any app owned by a Chinese company.
TikTok, we feel that you may have a mental health issue—maybe bipolar disorder. Something is causing you to ignore your community standards and apply them with fluctuating results depending on what side of the bed you woke up on.
There is even a petition to hold you, TikTok, accountable for what you do and don’t do. This petition, organized by Dian Rothschild, has a lofty goal: You need to be held accountable.
“It has come to our attention that TikTok, a popular social media platform, has been allegedly removing posts and banning accounts that express pro-Israel sentiments and criticize Hamas,” writes Dian Rothschild.
You can see the petition here. And we are now encouraging our readers to sign on to help hold you accountable and hold that intervention you need.
We know you have a problem with us, as Jews, TikTok. It’s become apparent, as we said in a recent email message.
On numerous occasions, the Jerusalem Press and other Jewish publications have contacted you, TikTok, for comments or clarification. You have refused to respond.
When we, and one other publication, asked a reporter in the UK to forward a media request with questions we have asked in the past, TikTok answered.
At this point, we can only assume TikTok does not wish to speak with us because our primary publication is print and in Yiddish or because we’re Jewish.
TikTok, it’s time to take a long, hard look in the mirror. You have become the new Joseph Goebbels. We refuse to congratulate you for attaining that new lofty office within the Fourth Reich, but we hope you seek the help you need.
TikTok and everyone out there who hates us for no other reason than our being Jewish will survive. You’ve tried to kill us before. You’ve kicked us out of our homes, you’ve chased us into the night, but we’ve outlived your failed empires, and we’ll outlive you, TikTok, and your desire to help usher in the Fourth Reich.
For everyone else reading this, let us know what you feel the best TikTok alternatives are, we’ll move there, in mass, like a modern-day Exodus.
The Jerusalem Press Staff
Maybe you should read what the ADL has to say about you back in 2020. Might help open your eyes, as nothing has really changed with you. Just click the image below and it will take you there.
