I wish them luck!

[thealbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

If sowing discord means posting pictures of food and just generally being nice to one another, I'm not sure the status quo being disturbed is worth protecting.

[knightly@pawb.social]

As opposed to a spyware app owned by the local government that's designed to sow discord and destabilize any opposition to the local oligarchs?

Seems to me that, for most people, there's more personal risk in being spied on by local cops than foreign ones.

[cyberegg@discuss.tchncs.de]

Nice strawman you got there. Needs a fitting hat though.

[pennomi@lemmy.world]

How hard can it be to scale that up? Certainly the growth is big but at their scale they should already have the orchestration in place.

[donkter@lemmy.world]

Well, people are moving from what they see as an innocent funny video app to a much more obvious chinese controlled app in protest. Basically trying to call out the hypocrisy of the government banning tiktok when all these other apps exist.

Most people do not realize how much info tiktok gathered from you and which shady state governments it filtered into.

It's funny though because the tiktok ban doesn't target tiktok, it targets any foreign controlled app above a certain number of users. So as soon as red note gains a bunch of users it will be killed as hard as tiktok.

That's of course unless both governments don't enforce the law, like they both have said they aren't going to do.

[tachyontele@lemm.ee]

Damn capitalist commie food, that's what it is!

[tachyontele@lemm.ee]

If Ive learned one thing in my life, it's that software and hardware are always super easy and never that hard to be.

[tropicaldingdong@lemmy.world]

local

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oligarchs

[idkwhatusernametoputherelolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Oh no it turns out that Chinese people are friendly and normal this will surely be the downfall of the West.

I mean, if you just remove politics, most interactions are normal

[asafum@feddit.nl]

You don't need to move it, everyone knows you just download more RAM duhhhh.

[darkevilmac@lemmy.zip]

Ah yes, that thing is bad but so is another thing so let's not fix any of the problems

[ininewcrow@lemmy.ca]

At this point I think the 'sow discord and destabilize western societies' is built into every corporately owned and controlled social media network

[rockslayer@lemmy.world]

Banning apps doesn't fix anything either. You know as well as I do that the solution is robust privacy laws

[holo@lemmy.wtf]

Everyone that moved to rednote absolutely knows their data was scrapped by Tiktok, including contacts and general behavior on their phone.

We're 30 years past that mattering. Everyone corporations and thus every government with money knows what you masturbate to and what makes you laugh. They all know where you work and what your net worth is. If they don't it takes less than a dollar to find out through your advertising id report.

None of the major data brokers refuse to sell to specific governments.

[holo@lemmy.wtf]

Yes, you know the dozen billionaires that will be in the executive branching in 3 days, or the hundred or so billionaires that completely control the US government?

[hexn3t@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Also why are the posts and comments so surreal

[cyberegg@discuss.tchncs.de]

Like the ones in the EU that just don't get enforced?

Btw, banning a platform can and should be a consequence for not adhering to robust privacy laws (for example after too grave and/or repeated offenses).

[ytg@sopuli.xyz]

Wouldn’t the same TikTok ban law just catch up to this one too?

[rockslayer@lemmy.world]

Banning apps as a consequence sure, but we know that this has everything to do with the second cold war and nothing to do with actual privacy concerns.

[dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Yeah and i love laughing at those people cry about it going away like bye

I'll stick to my FLOSS stuff like I've been doing since 2017. Fuck off corpos