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TikTok is notoriously inconsistent in the application of its TOS. One person I follow was set up as a partner (which includes things like bank accounts and drivers licenses), yet their account was banned for the personality being under 13 (she's 31). The remedy? Send a picture of the drivers license TIkTok already has associated with the account to prove her age.


there's literally a whole genre of live trolling where you try to get people who are obviously under 13 or close enough to say so and they get banned hella quick usually.


Turns out that TikTok, like many other companies, is made up of individual humans, and not some all powerful uni-mind.


>> TikTok is notoriously inconsistent in the application of its TOS. One person I follow was set up as a partner (which includes things like bank accounts and drivers licenses), yet their account was banned for the personality being under 13 (she's 31). The remedy? Send a picture of the drivers license TIkTok already has associated with the account to prove her age.

> Turns out that TikTok, like many other companies, is made up of individual humans, and not some all powerful uni-mind.

Though you'd think in a case like this, they'd have the ID on file or be able to easily infer from their account metadata that the person is over 13. It seems like more of a case of dumb one-size-fits-all processes or laziness on the part of the moderator.




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