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.
    • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      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.”

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      12 hours ago

      It’s actually worse because the American spyware apps give our data to the government to prosecute us for abortions etc.

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        8 hours ago

        That’s always been my point. China can do less with my data than the UK or America.

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      22 hours ago

      Why not ban both if we are concerned about the harms of algorithmic content?