A video featuring white supremacist Paul Miller wearing Nazi symbols and saying the n-word has 5 million views — and has been on the platform for nearly three months. TikTok’s community guidelines ban content that “praises, promotes, glorifies, or supports violent acts or extremist organizations or individuals,” but the enforcement of these policies is often lacking. Bad actors have been able to effectively evade moderation on the platform by using simple variations of banned terms. Though Media Matters has been consistently highlighting the platform’s problem existing in far-right ecosystems for over a year, TikTok has failed to adequately address it. In just the latest example, a video from a notorious neo-Nazi has remained active and racking up views on the platform for months. The video, which has 5 million views and over 744,000 likes, features Paul Miller, a neo-Nazi white supremacist and convicted felon currently serving a 41-month sentence in federal prison for charges stemming from possession of a firearm. Miller is better known by his username “GypsyCrusader,” which features a derogatory term targeting Romani people. According to the Anti-Defamation League, Miller “became increasingly popular in extremist circles for his racist and misogynist abuse on Omegle,” a website that randomly connects users. He would use “the app to harass women and minorities while dressed as supervillain comic book characters” and would then post “these interactions online to entertain his followers. He also began to sell white supremacist patches to his online followers.” In the April 13 video identified by Media Matters, Miller is wearing a vest with what appear to be Nazi hate symbols — a Totenkopf and SS bolts — and says “I hate ni—.” The video strategically cuts to another clip before Miller finishes the racist slur.
via mediamatterds: TikTok continues to allow videos of neo-Nazi to go viral