TikTok’s new community guidelines emulate other larger social media platforms’

NEW DELHI : Growing short video and social media platform, TikTok, today published its new community guidelines. While the guidelines do not seem to carry anything new or mentionable, it’s worth noting that they are much more vast than the older version and similar to those developed by Facebook, Twitter and other global social media platforms over the years.

Compared to this, TikTok’s earlier Community Guidelines look more like a broad set of rules that users are meant to follow. The new guidelines have 10 distinct sections with subsections to cover the kind of posts that the platform won’t accept.

“The Community Guidelines we’ve published today give users far more detail than previous versions. Over the past year our global trust and safety team has grown, just as our platform has, and we’ve combined our experience to bring greater transparency to our guidelines,” Lavanya Mahendran and Nasser Alsherif, from TikTok’s Global Trust and Safety team wrote on a blog post.