Summary

Many Americans joining China’s social media platform RedNote are encountering strict censorship uncommon in Western platforms.

One non-binary user had a post asking if the platform welcomed gay people removed within hours.

Posts on LGBTQ+ topics, fitness photos, and sensitive cultural content have been censored, frustrating users unfamiliar with China’s moderation rules.

RedNote is hiring English-language moderators to handle the influx. While some users enjoy cultural exchange, others criticize restrictions.

Analysts see RedNote’s growth among US users as a soft power win for China.

    • @Rhoeri
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      912 hours ago

      Are you seriously suggesting that the bloodbathed atrocities committed by the Chinese government on innocent student protestors in Tiananmen Square never happened?

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          12 hours ago

          I think that’s splitting hairs and a purposeful distraction from the point that the Chinese government’s murdered innocent people.

          To say- “but it happened near the square, not AT it!” is nothing short of disingenuous.

          And for the record, they said the west “made it up”. Misinformation at its finest.

          • @lennybird
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            211 hours ago

            Leaving aside the fact that nobody questions that Roth was detained for 20 hours by the Chinese government and quite possibly bribed or blackmailed.

          • @kuato
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            -1412 hours ago

            Quite a few of the people killed were unarmed military & police, which means that at least some of the “peaceful” protesters were not as peaceful as Western media portray them.

            • @Rhoeri
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              Did the Chinese military kill innocent students protestors or not?

              Answer the question without splitting hairs and distractions.

              Did they, or did they not?

              • @kuato
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                Given that a few hundred people died, I think it’s safe to assume that government agents must have killed at least some nonviolent protesters, yes. I don’t know anyone who’d dispute that.

                • @Rhoeri
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                  911 hours ago

                  That’s some masterclass side-stepping, bud! I’m done engaging with your attempts to minimize the atrocities of the Chinese government.

                  Case rested.

                  • @kuato
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                    -1411 hours ago

                    Okay Judge Judy 👍

        • @[email protected]
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          411 hours ago

          Here’s an archive of the link from that CBS page, since it’s broken now: https://web.archive.org/web/20090606124946/https://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/06/04/world/worldwatch/entry5061564.shtml

          It talks about the soldiers shooting people outside Tiananmen Square. This is the event that “the Tiananmen Square Massacre” refers to. The number of people killed ranges from tens to hundreds to thousands, depending on who you ask, plus more wounded, but nobody can deny that there wasn’t a massacre.

        • @Rhoeri
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          212 hours ago

          Now I am quite ready for you to disengage, shut down, and just yell and say I am a crazy person

          Do you see a .ml after my name?

          And if that’s the “normal response” you’re accustomed to, then maybe other people aren’t the problem.

          No, my response is to end this now and to stop engaging in a discussion that is clearly pointless. I’ve said what needed be said on the matter.