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U.S. TikTokers flock to Xiaohongshu, baffling and bonding with Chinese users. (restofworld.org)
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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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[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world -3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Good. The TikTok ban is an outrageous act of censorship.

Edit: Didn't know the ADL are on Lemmy

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

That's like trying to argue that fighting the Nazis in ww2 was an outrageous act of killing.

Edit spelling

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

out ratio use

I really miss /boneappletea

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Be the community you want to lemmy.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Jesus I'm fucking regarded

[–] Floey@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is the second time in this thread that I've seen Nazi comparisons. Stop whitewashing Nazism by making absurd comparisons.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee -1 points 2 days ago

U could say the same thing every time someone called trump a facist. Also Godwin's Law

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nazis. Always the Nazis.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah cos if ur argument can be used to justify the Nazis it is clearly a bad argument.

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How does censorship justify Nazis? Maybe you're just rationalizing anti China propaganda.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Of course I'm rationalising anti-China propaganda. I support your right to disagree but the CCP doesn't. They want to kill freedom of expression and I will fight that but if u wanna do otherwise I support ur liberty to do so. I disagree with u on the condition u allow such disagreement.

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

You think banning TikTok is about China and not about state oppression and control of public discourse by the US Government in service to Zionists, then I don't have anything else to add.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

That is an extremely narrow world view. If u actually cared about genocide u wouldn't be supporting the continued existence of an app that is provably suppressing any mention of the ccp's genocide.

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

I can go and criticise China on any US social media platform. But I will be shadowbanned, throttled, or blocked if I do the same for Israel. That's primarily why TikTok is being banned.

Jonathan Greenblatt. ADL director gave it away last year in a leaked recording when he said "we have a TikTok problem".

https://youtube.com/shorts/0f4cbLic3aA

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It’s not that outrageous to ban a propaganda machine. The rest of the world should follow suit and restrict access to not only TikTok but Xitter, ChatGPT and everything Facebook too by how things are handled in these companies right now. They’re all answering to anti-democratic governments and threaten our freedom.

[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ban Facebook first, anti-libre software. They never will. They're not doing this to help us.

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

AIPAC is the one threatening your freedom.