POV: It's January 19th

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if Vine was still here (let alone brought back) it would become just as bad as TikTok. Social medias can have their golden age but they will inevitably turn into shit, vine was simply shut down before its golden age came to an end

archomrade [he/him]

(there are several people in this thread who would not mind banning certain lemmy instances on this basis)

archomrade [he/him]

Yea, they were comparing tiktok to other american-owned social media sites, which are guilty of exactly the same thing themselves.

Any site that doesn't explicitly push anti chinese content is going to look like a pro-chinese bias

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"Freedom is when you let foreign governments spy on your citizens"

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What? Wechat is a thing here? I have literally never heard about Wechat like anywhere, pretty sure more people know about Lemmy in the US than Wechat lmao

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WeChat is very common amongst the Chinese diaspora worldwide. Everyone in China uses WeChat. Its like China's Facebook. Its either that, or just sms, which lack many features like, group chats, or some weird Lunar New Year gifs, stuff like that. That's only for first-generation immigrants tho. People born ouside of China, Taiwan, or any Chinese-speaking areas would probably not use WeChat. I arrived in the US at before I was 10, I hate the idea of having any corporate apps on my phone, regardless of nationality. Many Chinese Americans born in the US just use the typical Instagram, Snapchat and stuff like that (and yes, some use TikTok as well, but that just a "kids these days" thing, nothing to do with ancestry)

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Also 100% clear that facebook, google, twitter... are all doing the same but for US intelligence

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It was 3/5 compromise, but you're both right. Pug is more correct though.

Dr. Moose

Except they've banned 1 source for appeasement rather than enact a strong law or policy for long-term safety.

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Yeah but not Facebook and Twitter and other American ones. Right?

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Lol @ america being the only non-chinese country in the world

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Probably no nation ever should last for more than 100 years. That seems to be about the time it takes for things to go bad, even if they were good to start with.

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Jokes on you, I use lemmy

Literally made by communists

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You're on the Fediverse. Most of the people here are already actively avoiding Facebook and Xitter. Unfortunately, getting the US, EU, etc. to ban American propaspyware companies is, uh, extremely unlikely. China, however, has banned them long ago, which is why I don't see why people think it's hypocritical of the US government to ban Chinese social media.

Zement

Try saying negative stuff about China on .ml
I doubt that they are not completely undermined by the Chinese intelligence. (They delete every post critical about china).

So being vigilant is the only way to avoid getting manipulated.

AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet

Ah, but they also delete every post that isn't critical of Western countries.

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.ml might just be useful idiots tbh. But I remember speedrunning an /r/sino ban and that took me all of 1 minute, with a comment that wasn't even critical about China. It was a thread about how it's awesome that the west can't live without China for 5G connectivity and I said that "maybe it isn't all that great that an entire industry has been entirely centralized to one country" just to see if an absolutely lukewarm take would get banned. It did.

AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet

Well yeah. Why would corporations write laws against their own self-interest?

AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet

What the hell is WeChat? Did that WeWork guy start a social media service?

AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet

My wife quit it and was back on it a week later. Apparently it's very addictive. As someone who is on Lemmy a thousand times per day, I guess I can understand. I don't consider it quite the same though since we actually talk here, and discuss things beyond pressing like buttons on glorified commercials.