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 *inhale*
-I don't hate people on TikTok. I hate TikTok. We should all make that sort of distinction - we should treat technology platforms as tools people use, rather than peoples' homes.
-When you let a platform become a place, and then *your* place, it becomes your prison. I know, that sounds very /r/I'm14andThisIsDeepAlbeitHyperbolic. Let me make my case. Or as the tiktok kids have probably stopped saying by now, lemme cook.
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-I don't know if people still have a feeling of a Home Forum. 
-I won't bore you with mine, but I'll say that even now "NWS" feels right and "NSFW" feels weird. "So what?" you may say. "Cultures emerge, something something diversity etc". 
-Microcosms of culture are all well and good. But an account on a website is not membership in a community, it's identity within a market segment.


 I could pick out plenty of low-quality garbage on tiktok, say "this is what's on tiktok and that's why tiktok is bad", just as easily as I could cherrypick high quality stuff and say "this is what's on tiktok and that's why tiktok is great". 
-I know saying anything negative about tiktok gets me branded as old, so let me pull out a reference that's even older than me. Sturgeon's Law: 90% of *everything* is crap. 
+I know saying anything negative about tiktok gets me branded as old, so let me pull out a reference that's even older than me. 
+Sturgeon's Law: 90% of *everything* is crap. 
+That's not the problem. I don't hate people or content on TikTok. (Well, I do, but not any more than the same for every other platform.) I hate TikTok. We should all make that sort of distinction - we should treat technology platforms as tools people use, rather than gatherings of people. 
+When you let a platform become a place, and then *your* place, it feels like your home, and now it has a hook in you.
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+I don't know if people still have a feeling of a Home Forum. 
+I won't bore you with mine, but I'll say that even now "NWS" feels right and "NSFW" feels weird.
+"So what?" you may say. "Cultures emerge, something something diversity etc". 
+Microcosms of culture are all well and good. But that's not what's happening on modern social media. Every interaction with other people is mediated through an algorithm that sorts you into a group of like-minded people, and shields you from dissent. An account on a website is not membership in a community, it's placement within a market segment.
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 I'd argue the acronym "NWS" counts as slang. We might know some tiktok-slang - how about the euphemism "unalive"? It's a subcategory of slang called algospeak. Saying the word "murder" worries platform owners that you'll offend the delicate sensibilities of shareholders, so tiktok censors the concepts they don't want you to discuss.
 At the risk of starting an internet argument, censorship is bad, and stopping you from saying something is censorship.  we are witnessing censorship, and pitiful attempts to circumvent it, right now. 
 Hypothetical: suppose I said, if anyone says the word "the" in my house, I'll hit them. One imagines you would leave *the* house pretty quick.