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So far, Americans using RedNote have said they don't care if China has access to their data. Viral videos on TikTok in recent days have shown Americans jokingly saying they will miss their personal "Chinese spy," while others say they are purposefully giving RedNote access to their data in a show of protest against the wishes of the U.S. government.

"This also highlights the fact that people are thirsty for platforms that aren't controlled by the same few oligarchs," Quintin said. "People will happily jump to another platform even if it presents new, unknown risks."

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (4 children)

TikTok doesn't want the data of the average person becaue they aren't valuable in any way.

TikTok is being blocked because they can manipulate their algorithm to feed influencers to them that push pro-Chinese stances.

Imagine a hypothetical hot war between the US and China where China is telling a significant number of the US population what to think. I specifically say it that way becaue I don't believe any US company has a significant user base is China.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I feel like I already answered that in the last paragraph.

It's litterally anything that whitewashes anything the CCP does. Maybe it's justification for island building in the South China Sea, framing international right of way passages through the same body of water as border incursions, trying to reduce support for weapon sales to Taiwain, or trying to reduce allied responses to an invasion of Taiwan. It could also just be spreading general unrest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Literally never seen any of that on TikTok. Just Americans doing their thing. In fact, you can actually look up content on TikTok that shows, describes and condemns the atrocities at tiananmen square, and their awful behavior towards Taiwan. And any number of things that shows the chinese government as a bad player. If they were in control, you'd think that sort of thing wouldn't even be available.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

And because of the potential blackmail stuff I suppose

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago (19 children)

They’d be right at home at .ml

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not everyone who is willing to use redbook is interested in the authoritarian gatekeeping done in the outrage farm known as lemmy.ml

You might be surprised to learn that there are plenty of leftists who aren't interested in marxist-lenninism at all

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Sir we're all outrage farmers, it's why we (mostly) left Reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

idk, pixelfed is doing great.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Where were people's protests & complaints when the US government were first proposing the ban?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I do find it kinda funny that that the US gov. Was using "CCP propaganda" as an excuse to ban a platform of expression, and now many of those users have begun using an app that actually has a history of defending the CCP

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Platforms that work and are easy to use*

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Maybe y'all should stop screeching bootlicker schill Nazi with every moderate take and replace the mods with reasonable people trying to mod instead of censoring opposition vote points.

So so so many people talking about confusion and platform design and privacy. It's the users and moderation pushing regular people away.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Personally I just like the fuck you energy behind it all.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (16 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

We are using it mainly as a massive middle finger to the US government

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