TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban
TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban
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TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban
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Sigh. Two things. 1. This will not force the government to capitulate on the Tik Tok situation. It does not have the hallmarks of an effective protest and the federal government will ban these apps too. If you don't think so you should read the bill in question. 2. Rednote and apps like it have the opposite in TOS and content moderation (meaning these new users will not be able to use these apps as free speech platforms because the Chinese government does not allow that on those apps). It's very likely that any user trying to organize for LGBTQ or other marginalized groups will be banned pretty much right away for breaking the content policy of apps like rednote.
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Maybe but governments are slow to react. There will be a couple of months of relative freedom. Then we'll have to find new apps again.
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I doubt that. They're slow to legislate. Not to react when the law is already on the books. This is as simple as their OPSEC community flagging the apps (which they do already), and then adding it to a list of apps they likely already have of apps that violate the terms and sending that information to the relevant app platforms.
They literally already have a list of apps that government employees aren't allowed to use. This is not any different.
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Re: Point 2:
The cultural exchange is good, but people will soon find that there's not much "freedom of expression" in China.
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I sacrificed my soul to go over and check it out, immediately followed a bunch of LGBT creators of both US and Chinese locale. Nothing I followed or liked seems to have been removed yet, so just giving my two honest cents on that. The stuff that gets removed appears to be mainly Chinese politics and that’s it.
Is it the perfect protest solution? Naw.
Is it better than Musk and Zuckerberg getting a shit ton of free revenue from their corruption? Yea.
Is it funny as fuck? YUPP LMAO
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I'm not suggesting they move to other American platforms though there's a lot of overlap in the userbase of all of those apps and because this kind of social media is addictive, I don't think they will boycott these platforms for a long period of time.
There's 150 million or so American users on Tik Tok, and it seems like maybe only about a million of them have moved to rednote.
To put this in perspective, Apple stopped selling small iPhones because they didn't make up enough of the market to justify continued sales and they sold way more than a million of them (3% of iphone sales which is about 45million iPhone minis sold just from a quick Google search).
I can appreciate wanting to protest. I can appreciate the effort that it takes to organize etc. But I don't think this will do much of anything except be seen as token resistance.
Moderation of an influx of 1 million new users who don't speak the same language will be difficult right at first but rednote themselves say they're hiring more English speaking moderators. So rest assured they will be moderating that content eventually.
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This is probably going to make the US government confident they made the right choice banning tiktok and start the next step which is banning more chinese platforms.
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