There’s a difference between 1-to-1, 1-to-many, and 1-to-all media.

Once you move into the broadcast realm, the 1-to-all, you’re no longer dealing with a tank or a pond but with an ocean.

And once you’ve created an ocean, you cant divide it so that predators swim in one corner and parasites in another. Everything coexists, mixes, mutates.

That’s why debates about what platforms like TikTok “should” or “shouldn’t” do are hollow. There is never ending debate but all sorts of strangeness and surprises emerge every single day, that no one can predict or control. That is the nature of the Ocean.

It would be great if that were true, but TikTok is filled with accounts dedicated to virtue signal and “news”. I’ve tried multiple times to clean my feed but there are too many

Political censorship does not have a good track record as a way to foster self-expression, which intrinsically involves drama in many cases.

What platform and medium is more suited for that? All the major social media platforms based in the US also censor such topics and don't promote them

Xitter and Blue sky are just US folks screaming about politics these days, can't you just join those and let us watch cat videos on TikTok in peace?

They are not video platforms though. Is there any scrollable social media video platform like what you are saying exists elsewhere without the censorship we see here? Not really