TikTok will start restricting videos by age
- July 14, 2022
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Photo: iStock The TikTok platform will begin to classify videos by age groups and add an “adult content” tag to posts that cannot be played on user accounts
The TikTok platform will begin to classify videos by age groups and add an “adult content” tag to posts that cannot be played on user accounts under the age of 19.
The company announced this Wednesday, a measure that mimics the age ratings of movies, television and video games, fitting in with its new business approach, focusing on standing as an entertainment platform rather than a social network.
“Some content may contain mature and complex themes about real experiences or events aimed at mature audiences,” he said in a statement, which he predicts will begin implementing the changes in the coming weeks.
While TikTok did not specify who or what system would be used to determine content categories, the company assured that it would assign a “maturity score” to each video and also classify them into “maturity themes.”
Likewise, it will allow for the banning and censorship of certain tags or accounts for parents who are concerned about their children.
These measures came at a critical moment for the company’s image after two families in the United States denounced TikTok, which died in the wake of a viral attack that encouraged girls from the platform to record themselves choking on different devices.
TikTok listed as worst platform
In this sense, the American Gays and Lesbians Alliance Against Defamation (Glaad) placed TikTok as the worst platform for harassment on Wednesday.
And last week, the US Senate Intelligence Committee asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether Chinese officials were accessing US user data through the TikTok app.
In the letter, the Committee cites a research paper by Buzzfeed that claims Chinese employees of TikTok and ByteDance regularly access sensitive data of US users, according to a leak of internal meeting recordings.
According to this piece, the company is passing some of the collected data to authorities in Beijing, although TikTok representatives denied any contact between the popular app and the Chinese government at a hearing in the United States Congress in October 2021. .
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Source: El Nacional
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