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Americans are joining the Chinese social media app en masse to protest an imminent TikTok ban.

  • American users have flocked to Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu in defiance of security warnings.
  • Chinese and American users have engaged in surprisingly friendly conversations about each other’s lives.
  • The influx of American users could burden Xiaohongshu’s censorship mechanism, experts say.
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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

the real reason why the government tries to ban apps is because it gives an unfiltered look at people the government has tried to demonize for years

[–] coherent_domain@infosec.pub 8 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

LOL, the irony is that red note is censoring posts from those "tiktok refugee".

It is such a western privilege to think that they can avoid unnecessary censorship and big tech monopoly by moving to Chinese platforms. When Chinese knows full well that they don't have such choice.

To further the irony, the west actually have abundant options to avoid censorship and big tech. Yet people think they are "less usable" than google translating (big tech monopoly btw) your way into a censoring Chinese big tech monopoly...

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

An unfiltered look at, checks notes, a completely censored and controlled people who aren't even allowed to hold up a blank sheet of paper in protest?

[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 1 points 49 minutes ago* (last edited 20 minutes ago)

As if they don't ban apps too.