TikTok refugees have already noted harsh restrictions on RedNote that have resulted in their content being removed or their accounts being suspended, including for mentioning LGBTQ+ identities or for women, wearing a slightly low-cut top.
.ml and .hexbear have been salivating over this shit. “See China good, people nice, no problems here”. My favorite so far is “tiktokers are fighting back the US government by using another countries platform!”
I promise you 95% of the influx into rednote, didn’t choose it to give a middle finger to the US govt… They did it because some influencers just picked another popular social app and joined. Their followers just followed suit so they could see where they went. More people followed, and here we are. Now the people turning the wheels behind the scenes see all these ripe targets for foreign national misinformation campaigns.
It’s fun for a while being immersed in another culture, but once enough people see the real restrictions, it’ll lose users and onto the next platform.
Rednote is a tankies wet dream. It felt like I was taken back to cold war propaganda times. Communism vs Capitalism. Luigi the peoples champion, to start the downfall of Capitalism. It’s weird to me that anyone who thinks a small group of wealthy people that controls everything by whatever name is a good thing.
Jesus christ world news is just a CIA liberal hell hole
How people knew about RedNote at the start of that wave? In ads, by influencers, in the news? Idk because I’m not in the US, but I suspect something more than a word of a mouth. Especially if TikTok itself was (was it?) a source to know about it’s contender that is mostly in chinese lol.
It looks like PRC gvmt and corpos play hydra.
It’s ironic to resist US government censorship by using an app regulated by a far more censorious government, but in this case the irony is appropriate.
People have the right to choose what information they expose themselves to - even if that information really is foreign propaganda. The US government can advise but it must not compel. Its credibility is now so low that most Americans won’t heed its advice, and that’s one symptom of a much larger and very serious problem with American democracy. Censorship makes that problem worse.
It’s ironic to resist US government censorship
Censorship is for ideas. Nothing is being censored.
If your free speech is deathmetal at 5am through a giant 1000W speaker, you’re not being censored.
What do you mean? There are ideas being expressed on TikTok. The US government is about to prevent Americans from choosing to see those ideas. Even Chinese propaganda is an idea.
Time, place, and manner restrictions allow bans on making noise at night but aren’t applicable here because no one is exposed to TikTok involuntarily. Time, place, and manner restrictions don’t allow restricting some ideas but not others, and again even Chinese propaganda is an idea.
No one should be surprised, China is a very homophobic country, alongside it’s xenophobia in thinking that homosexuality is a western invention.
