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TikTok Bans MLMs and Content That Aims to Deceive People for Financial Gain (buzzfeednews.com)
34 points by elsewhen on Dec 17, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments


Looks like it only applies to non-religious organizations


No one wants the "smoke" related to determining what IS or IS NOT a legitimate religious activity. So yea I don't blame them for not going after tithing.


Except, of course, for ads officially purchased through it


those are clearly marked tho. The issue is shit not being clearly marked is very illegal.


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How does this relate to "multi-level marketing" or "deception for financial gain?"


OP is not really wrong.. half of what ends up on the front of tiktok is girls literally advertising themselves to get your attention so you visit their profile to find their instagram and then to get the onlyfans link.

So I would agree it's "deception" in terms of they are pretending to post actual content, but it's 100% meant to be an advertisement for financial gain.

And hey whatever they can do as they please.. but it really does fall under a similar category.




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