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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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[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Well, the American one doesn't have an incentive to turn its own people against its own government with propaganda. As is happening with Tiktok and pushing pro-CCP and anti-American content.

And even if the only concern was spying, it's like saying "well a creep on the street snapped a nude photo of me through my windows, so I may as well take my own nudes and pass it around the neighbourhood."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 35 minutes ago (1 children)

There have been multiple studies that have demonstrated that pro-CCP content outweighs anti-CCP content by at least 3 to 1. Even on profiles that prefer anti-CCP content the pro content still gets suggested at a 3 to 1 ratio.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 minutes ago

Surely you'd be willing to share those studies then? Because the only one I've seen was NCRI who didn't make that claim and are hilariously biased.

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

because no US social media has ever affected an election?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 31 minutes ago

Ah, ok. So we're doing whataboutisms. Got it.

I'll go next: China is pushing its authoritarian influence outside its borders by setting up Chinese police stations in foreign countries like Canada, to put pressure on Chinese abroad from saying or doing anything that would put a negative light on the CCP by threatening harm to family members still living in China.

You're turn.