2024-09-17
33 分钟TikTok took down Esma Memtimin’s posts for allegedly violating the platform’s community rules even though her videos were about stickers and current events. A recent study from Rutgers University suggests Memtimin isn’t alone — when researchers compared TikTok’s content with other similar platforms there is a mysterious dearth of posts about subjects Beijing considers hot button issues.
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Looking back on it, Esma Memti mean had a feeling that her TikTok video might be taken down, though at first blush, it didn't seem particularly sinister.
There was no violence, no swear words.
There wasn't even dialogue.
Just this music that you're hearing right now and a series of jump cuts of young women putting these small, square stickers in public places in Munich.
One on a lamppost, another on a payphone or a snack machine.
These were stickers Esmei and her friends had made themselves to send a message.
We decided to go through Munich, and everywhere we go, we stick like a sticker of that and then film it.
This is Esma.
And the sticker that they were plastering around the city said this very basic Google Uighur, or you may have heard it pronounced Uyghur.
Esma is Uighur, a muslim minority that has been fighting for autonomy from China for years.
And the sticker was supposed to spark some curiosity, to get people to learn for themselves what the chinese government was doing to Uyghurs.
But TikTok took the video down.
Basically, they said, you went against our community rules.
Yeah, but it was something super hilarious.
It was super.
It didn't make sense because they said something like, it's aggressive or insulting or whatever.
She sent us a screenshot of the TikTok notice.
It actually said that the video was taken down because it showed violent behavior and criminal activities, even though they were literally just putting stickers around town.