Users on TikTok searching for “WGA” are met with a screen claiming that the phrase “may be associated with behavior or content that violates our guidelines.” No videos return. Users are also unable to search for the “WGA” hashtag.

TikTok has also blocked the search term “WGA strike.”

Additionally, it appears that TikTok is blocking results from any simple search that includes “WGA” in the search term. Including “WGA” in addition to another word — like “WGA support” or “WGA strong” — blocks results.

Update (9/11/23): A TikTok spokesperson told Media Matters that “WGA has been inadvertently blocked as part of the platforms’ protections against QAnon conspiracy theories.” (WWG1WGA is a common QAnon phrase.) The spokesperson added that searches for “Writers Guild of America” and “Writers Guild of America Strike” were not impacted. Searches for “WGA” and related terms now appear to function normally.

(Thanks mike591, SCB, and others for putting in the comments)

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
    English
    374·
    10 months ago

    Users on TikTok searching for “WGA” are met with a screen claiming that the phrase “may be associated with behavior or content that violates our guidelines.

    Well, yeah… of course they’re against unions.

    China is a far right authoritarian government, of course they’d hate unions and force “private” companies to do shit like this.

    • toasteecup@lemmy.worldEnglish
      67·
      10 months ago

      Authoritarian Communist which is the top left of the common left to right authoritarian to libertarian political square.

      The important thing is they’re central government dictates what the economic goals of the quarter will be and the various districts with to achieve it or lie to pretend they achieved it.

      That contrasts with the rest of the world where the economy does what it does and we learn how the quarter was after it’s over.

        • toasteecup@lemmy.worldEnglish
          24·
          10 months ago

          I mean. Sure. It’s not real but as a concept it does a lot to help drive a common understanding.

          As for the shape, it’s really more of a cube because you also have economic model.

          • utopianfiat@lemmy.worldEnglish
            22·
            10 months ago

            You’re missing the point - the entire notion that political ideologies can have some discrete vectorization in a linearizable space is a social construct. To the extent that it has validity at all, it’s a projection of reality onto a space with inherent distortions. I’m not arguing that it’s not useful but it’s important to realize that the shared understanding it provides people with is a shared understanding of the idealized world of the model, not of the underlying reality.