Great job, US government. You went so overboard with your “TikTok is an evil Chinese app” and deciding to ban it that you’re pushing kids to go even deeper into the Chinese app ecosystem. The US go…
Sigh. Two things. 1. This will not force the government to capitulate on the Tik Tok situation. It does not have the hallmarks of an effective protest and the federal government will ban these apps too. If you don’t think so you should read the bill in question.
Rednote and apps like it have the opposite in TOS and content moderation (meaning these new users will not be able to use these apps as free speech platforms because the Chinese government does not allow that on those apps). It’s very likely that any user trying to organize for LGBTQ or other marginalized groups will be banned pretty much right away for breaking the content policy of apps like rednote.
I sacrificed my soul to go over and check it out, immediately followed a bunch of LGBT creators of both US and Chinese locale. Nothing I followed or liked seems to have been removed yet, so just giving my two honest cents on that. The stuff that gets removed appears to be mainly Chinese politics and that’s it.
Is it the perfect protest solution? Naw.
Is it better than Musk and Zuckerberg getting a shit ton of free revenue from their corruption? Yea.
I doubt that. They’re slow to legislate. Not to react when the law is already on the books. This is as simple as their OPSEC community flagging the apps (which they do already), and then adding it to a list of apps they likely already have of apps that violate the terms and sending that information to the relevant app platforms.
They literally already have a list of apps that government employees aren’t allowed to use. This is not any different.
Sigh. Two things. 1. This will not force the government to capitulate on the Tik Tok situation. It does not have the hallmarks of an effective protest and the federal government will ban these apps too. If you don’t think so you should read the bill in question.
I sacrificed my soul to go over and check it out, immediately followed a bunch of LGBT creators of both US and Chinese locale. Nothing I followed or liked seems to have been removed yet, so just giving my two honest cents on that. The stuff that gets removed appears to be mainly Chinese politics and that’s it.
Is it the perfect protest solution? Naw.
Is it better than Musk and Zuckerberg getting a shit ton of free revenue from their corruption? Yea.
Is it funny as fuck? YUPP LMAO
Re: Point 2:
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/14/tiktok-users-attempted-migration-to-chinese-app-rednote-isnt-going-too-well/?eicker.news
The cultural exchange is good, but people will soon find that there’s not much “freedom of expression” in China.
Maybe but governments are slow to react. There will be a couple of months of relative freedom. Then we’ll have to find new apps again.
I doubt that. They’re slow to legislate. Not to react when the law is already on the books. This is as simple as their OPSEC community flagging the apps (which they do already), and then adding it to a list of apps they likely already have of apps that violate the terms and sending that information to the relevant app platforms.
They literally already have a list of apps that government employees aren’t allowed to use. This is not any different.