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Public statement source · YT362
Dr. Taban PAID TIKTOK TO BAN ME!?
A replacement TikTok account, struck twice, four weeks after the permanent ban. What the two removed videos were about.
Litigation contextShortJuly 4, 2025
Original video removed
Published
FormatShort
CategoryDispute context
Primary topic—
Research relevanceLitigation context
Case-link confidenceMedium
Last checkedOctober 23, 2026
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How a tier is assigned.Strong — the statement names a tracked case or dispute and describes filing conduct of the kind the indicators document: repeat filing on the same dispute, filing after an adverse decision, or filing framed as imposing cost on the opponent. Moderate — it bears on litigation conduct or chronology in a tracked dispute, but the case link is tentative or the statement describes something other than the speaker’s own filing behaviour. Context — general commentary with no specific tracked case identified.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm being deplatformed off Tik Tok because I just made this new account and they already gave me two strikes.
A fact the dataset does not currently hold anywhere: that after the 2025-06-05 permanent ban he opened a new TikTok account, and that it accrued two strikes within roughly four weeks. The dataset's account-ban material (a researched statement from a video published 2025-06-06) stops at the original account. This matters for the TikTok/ByteDance chronology because C014 was filed 2025-06-06 and removed to federal court as C053 on 2025-06-27 — one week before this video — so the conduct described here is post-filing and post-removal. Tier: Moderate (No filing-conduct factor)
The first one was for the video about me giving my eye update, you know, talking about my surgical experience and how my eyes are doing now. Basically, me explaining that I'm still having vision issues and I'm laying in bed most of the day. And the second video they took down was me explaining how this doctor lied and manipulated me uh every step of the way.
Identifies the removed content as (a) an eye/surgery status update and (b) an allegation about the doctor's conduct — the same two categories the tortious-interference theory in C014/C053 turns on, and the same claimed incapacity ("laying in bed most of the day") that the C.D. Cal. court in C046 later found unsupported and "inconsistent" with his public video activity (a recorded court finding, Judge Stephen V. Wilson, 2026-08-07). Recorded as a dated statement of his own condition, not as evidence of it either way.
Transcript-verified verbatim quote
Source removed. Quoted at 00:10 in the archived transcript.
And I I think he either paid someone off at Tik Tok or someone at Tik Tok is keeping on my page and and
The causal allegation the video's title states as fact is delivered in the transcript as a hedged either/or ("I think he either… or…") and cut off by the end of the video. It is the same allegation recorded a month earlier in another researched video (2025-06-05: "this uh doctor finally threw a few million bucks to his secret society buddies at Tik Tok") and in an already published statement from 2025-06-06 ("I don't know what happened behind the scenes… he just paid a lump sum of money… that could have happened"). The hedges are part of the quotes and are preserved in all three. The subject is unnamed here and is in any event a party to tracked litigation. This research takes no position on whether the allegation is true.
Transcript-verified verbatim quote
Source removed. Quoted at 00:52 in the archived transcript.
Cases linked to this video
A case link records a researched connection between the video and a docket record. It is not a finding that the video caused, or was caused by, any filing.
2025-04277 — Tufano v. TikTokTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:00 researched as bearing on this case: A replacement TikTok account, struck twice, four weeks after the permanent ban.
3:25-cv-01175 — Tufano v. TikTok et alTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:00 researched as bearing on this case: A replacement TikTok account, struck twice, four weeks after the permanent ban.