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.
  • @[email protected]
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    10 hours ago

    Consistent problem with fascists who want you to hate outsiders. When those barriers fall, it turns out that most of the “enemy” are just people who want to live their lives.

    This goes both directions.

    • @CeeBee_Eh
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      189 hours ago

      But the Chinese people were never the enemy. The only ones who push that narrative are people who want to sow division and hatred.

      It’s the CCP and US government that are at odds with one another. The issue with TikTok is the CCP has control and influence over content served to Western uses.

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        8 hours ago

        This. There is a reason why China has been censoring the internet so much, and why Russia and to a lesser degree Türkiye started doing it as well. And why two of the three most powerful people in the US apart from Trump control like 2/3 of all social media.

        • @CeeBee_Eh
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          17 hours ago

          Ah, ok. I thought you were saying the other thing.