The famous Tik Tok platform recently adopted strict rules, emphasizing that anyone who breaks them will be banned.
According to the new policy posted on the official Chinese website, “someone posts content that violates one of the TikTok community guidelines”, the account will accumulate violation, and if the account meets the warning limit under one of the features available in such publications, both in the form of comments and live broadcasts, bullying and harassment. It will be permanently blocked.”
Previous policy limits may vary based on the likelihood that the violation will harm members of the community. For example, there may be a stricter threshold for violating TikTok policy when promoting undesirable ideologies than when spreading low-harm spam.
Although Tik Tok has emphasized in its new policy that it will apply a permanent ban after the first violation of “serious violations” by some users, including advocating or threatening violence, displaying or facilitating child sexual abuse material, or displaying violence or torture. in the real world.
forever banned
The platform, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, also indicated that accounts showing a high accumulation of cumulative warnings as a result of policy violations or misuse will be permanently banned.
And Tik Tok indicated that the warning is valid for 90 days from the moment it is sent to the user, after which it will be automatically canceled from the system.
And a new tool has been announced that helps users track blocked content over the past 90 days, which will appear in the Account Status section of the app’s Security Center.
Permanent removal
There is also another feature offered by “Tik Tok” which is to start notifying content creators if they are close to permanently deleting their account.
The Tik Tok platform confirmed in a statement that these new changes are intended to increase the transparency of its enforcement decisions and to help the community better understand how to follow community rules.
In this regard, Tik Tok said in a statement that repeat offenders tend to follow a specific pattern, and that nearly 90% of them consistently break the same feature, and more than 75% repeatedly break the same policy category.
And a study by the UK Digital Hate Center confirmed that the Tik Tok platform offers teens videos of violence and suicide as soon as they open new accounts on the platform.
Xu Jiqiu, CEO of China’s TikTok, agreed to testify before the US Congress next March amid a wave of calls to ban the use of short videos under the guise of accusations of surveillance of users.
