I wish them luck!

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Potentially, but the ban was never about solving a problem it was about being seen doing something. The average old person voter who isn’t serially online has never heard of RedNote and probably won’t for many years, so the skeletons in congress don’t have to address it.

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Possibly, if you're American. The rest of the world will continue to have access.

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Election Interference so blatant that the EU started formal proceedings.

Multiple studies, including a very recent one by Rutgers and NCR, showing it's a pro CCP propaganda vehicle.

It lied about collecting precise user data.

It lied about whether that data was accessible to ByteDance and it lied about not using that data to track people.

The problem with TT isn't it's content, the "food pictures and people being nice to each other." you referenced, its with how TT uses its algorithm to misguide its users and the risk of them misusing the staggering amount of data their app collects.

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"scale up"? lol, it has 300 million MAUs, it's going to be fine...

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MongoDB is webscale. WEBSCALE!!

Chloé 🥕

destabilize western societies

damn it does??? installing rednote immediately

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Twitter ( X run by the twit) and Facebook do the very same but worse . I wonder why they were not banned?

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Their marketing department is lagging as shown by them Chinese language ads on YouTube to US audiences.

It has a still frame of someone skiing or snowboarding, a QR code and the Chinese language description. Wut?

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The US politicians have destabilized the whole country. The apps just gives a place to be vocal. The US uses our data against us we just ignore it because they say they don't.

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Tell me again how US politicians made a candidate in the romanian election of 2024.

”Western societies“ is not only the US, you egocentric yankees.

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Whoa calm down. You made me jump jump

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Twitter and Facebook would count as destabilising Western society.

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How comes that whenever one criticizes Tiktok there's always gonna be multiple comments screeching ”BuT fAcEbOoK aNd TwItTeR“ though nobody said they weren't also garbage? And funnily, if you criticize any of those two, someone comes screeching ”BuT tIkToK“

FOR FUCKS SAKE STAY ON TOPIC.

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lol

yeah.

funniest shit I ever saw.

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Because the ban isn't actually about the data harvesting. It's about money.

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that is the point, they are moving from Chinese app to Chinese app because the alternatoves are equally bad.

Corporations are good at acquiring users because they invest money, and the greatest tradeoff is social control and manipulation.

You thought tiktokers would come to Lemmy?

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But people can just be vocal on platforms that don't seek to manipulate public opinions, like mastodon...

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They should be.

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You’re out of your mind . Blaming an app for this countries problems is incredible mental gymnastics.

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They are very much designed to sowing Chinese discourse and push the capitalist hyper-consumption life style. In fact RedNote is famous for being toxic and anxiety inducing among Chinese community, partially due to its root in product promotion:

Xiaohongshu was founded by Miranda Qu and Charlwin Mao in 2013 as an online tour guide for Chinese shoppers, providing a platform for users to review products and share their shopping experiences with the community.

They are also anti-competitive and consumer-hostile:

Xiaohongshu strictly prevents advertising and linking to external websites or apps. Actions such as sending WeChat contacts in posts or DMs or inquiring about prices of goods can lead to account suspension.

And most westerners don't see this side of rednote, precisely because of your privileges:

Following the growth in users from the United States, Xiaohongshu was said to be exploring adjusting its content review processes as American influencers began sharing posts.

On 14 January 2025, Xiaohongshu announced that it would direct users to more "positive" content in line with a November 2024 directive from the Cyberspace Administration of China.

Quotes are from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaohongshu and there are many Mandarin articles on the toxicity of rednote:

It is funny to see those so called "communist" or whatever are rushing to defend the very embodiment of capitalistic hyper-consumption in China, and the only thing shielding them from such toxicity is their own privilege.