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Public statement source · YT261
Amish will NEVER CONSENT TO PHOTOGRAPHY
Records a first-person claim of being censored and shadowbanned for posting videos about influencers, with TikTok named as the platform; no case, docket, court or filing is mentioned.
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I I've been making videos like this exposing these people because there have been several influencers that do take advantage of these Amish people's privacy and I just get censored and shadowbanned because these influencers are in the club and all they do, all these elite people do is take advantage of other people for money. So why wouldn't they they do that to the Amish people as well? They're allowed to. They don't care. These people on at Tik Tok don't give a
A first-person claim of being censored and shadowbanned for posting videos about influencers, with TikTok named in the closing sentence. No judicial finding anywhere in the dataset supports the claim that any platform suppressed his content; the record is that he published the claim on this date.
Why this classification: TikTok is a tracked defendant and platform suppression is the subject matter of tracked actions, which lifts this above general commentary, but no case, docket or filing is named and no filing conduct of his own appears, so it is Moderate.