[HN Gopher] Google removes over 5M reviews from Play Store to im... ___________________________________________________________________ Google removes over 5M reviews from Play Store to improve TikTok rating Author : sdan Score : 42 points Date : 2020-05-25 21:15 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.indiatoday.in) (TXT) w3m dump (www.indiatoday.in) | Barrin92 wrote: | > _" Another reason was the enraged fans of famous Indian | YouTuber Carry Minati flooding PlayStore with 1-star reviews. | | Carry Minati had created a video titled YouTube Vs TikTok, part | of an ongoing feud between YouTube and TikTok users. His video | went viral and was taken down for violating YouTube's terms of | service. This happended because many TikTok users reported the | video saying it was bullying in nature."_ | | Seems reasonable enough to remove those because this is just | brigarding and has nothing to do with authentic users of the app. | frequentnapper wrote: | I happened to watch the video, which was a response to a Tiktok | user badmouthing Youtube creators. I didn't really see any | bullying, just funny retorts. I guess when it comes to Youtube, | they just censor anything as long as enough people complain. | cscurmudgeon wrote: | People are discussing this as a China vs India thing. | | It is not. | | People recently found that TikTok is extremely lax in dealing | with content that promotes violence. | | https://www.newsweek.com/india-tik-tok-faizal-siddiqui-acid-... | dkdk8283 wrote: | Or Youtube takes an extreme viewpoint banning anything remotely | close to content with weapons. | MintelIE wrote: | Were they real reviews, or Indian review-bombs generated as part | of a nationalistic campaign to get back at China? | | Review sections were weaponized long ago, first by companies, and | now, increasingly, by nations. | KukicAdnan wrote: | Indian review-bombs. | katktv wrote: | Indian review-bombs, but for the other reasons entirely. The | dumb ones as well. | chipperyman573 wrote: | This really hits on a lot of nerves of the general HN crowd | (especially when these things are combined): | | - Google | | - "Censorship" (loosely defined) | | - China (vs India vs a US company, which could really be its own | point) | | But if you read the article it seems to be a logical decision. | Google (likely) did something similar for zoom: | https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/03/24/zooms-android-app-r... | | Assuming there's nothing left out by the author, I don't really | think there's anything newsworthy here, just something that | google did that aligns with its past actions (not to say it | doesn't belong on HN) | frequentnapper wrote: | there was no China Vs India. Just Tiktok vs Youtube - really | Indian Youtube and Tiktok content creators dissing each | other... | chipperyman573 wrote: | I just meant that Tiktok is a chinese owned company (and | therefore state-owned). China has forced companies to do | similar things before. | plerpin wrote: | I swear you could generate a 100% realistic comment thread from | a Markov chain of those broad topics. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-05-25 23:00 UTC)