They ban reporting on the stock market if it closes 64 or 89 points lower than it opened. https://www.france24.com/en/20190604-8964-china-stocks-reference-tiananmen-anniversary-again
The BBC spoke to someone who acquired a large following shortly after signing up.
Some social media users tell the BBC that they find themselves scrolling on RedNote more than TikTok. "Even if TikTok does stay I will continue to use my platform I've created on RedNote," Tennessee tech worker Sydney Crawley told the BBC. Ms Crawley said she got over 6,000 followers within 24 hours of creating her RedNote account. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2475l7zpqyo
The Guardian says over 500,000. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/14/tiktok-ban-rednote-app
trans-inclusive radical feminists
TIRFs?
Personally I prefer the company of trans-agnostic practicing sexists or TAPS.
The thread is about tiktok being banned in Albania. I thought you might be familiar with Australia's threats to ban tiktok whilst ignoring the crimes other tech companies commit and making no effort to protect Australians from them.
Did you miss the comment I made about Instagram? That was specifically about the content of the site having a negative impact on users.
I commented on your post so yeah I think I managed to click on it. Did you bother to read mine and think of a coherent response before typing? Nah just ignore my efforts to put this in a wider context and dismiss me as a tankie. I'll just dismiss you as racist since you only complain when it's a Chinese company doing it.
I'm all in favour of robust privacy protections like GDPR. I don't support yellow peril bullshit when a Chinese company successfully operates in the same space that US companies do.
Is it a bad thing when political leaders have a presence on social media? Would you prefer it if the leaders of the 2 biggest economies in the world were actively censored and suppressed by these platforms?
Seems like a weird complaint to make.
Everything TikTok is accused of is either just a true for other social media/ website or more so. Thanks to Edward Snowden we know for a fact that US tech companies forward your emails and data to the NSA. There is no evidence of Tiktok sharing any data with any government. Yet it's tiktok that get's threatened with bans rather than facebook and gmail.
Instagram is notorious for making girls feel bad about their appearance and pushing them to anorexia and self harm yet no one's proposing to ban it.
Because the tail doesn't wag the dog.
You may as well ask why Toyota sells right hand drive cars in Japan and why it sells left hand drive cars in USA?
Why do you think that is?
Not at all. When google operated a search engine in China it looked nothing like the Google you can access in other countries.
Why would google or tiktok handicap themselves and operate a less profitable, less competitive version of their service when that isn't required by local regulations?
Don't forget this line;
The social media platform told the BBC it had found no evidence the person who allegedly stabbed the 14-year-old boy, or the victim himself, had TikTok accounts.
It's a huge failing by government regulators. It appears China is the only country capable of policing tech companies adequately.
We have the power to fine companies up to £18m or 10% of their qualifying worldwide revenue – whichever is greater – and in very serious cases we can apply for a court order to block a site in the UK.
Firstly I'd expect regulators to focus on the big fish rather than this minnow. Secondly losing 10% of revenue isn't a huge deal whilst any fines larger than that would get the entire news media rallying behind you. Shutting down the site is premature to say the least.
That being said I am surprised that this legislation applies to everyone immediately. You'd think they'd start with a high threshold of say 1 million active monthly users and then reduce that each year as practices and technologies get established. It's ridiculous to expect hobbyists and small scale operations to be able to meet this burden just as easily as multi-trillion pound corporations.
The suffragettes are remembered fondly. They even had a rail line named after them in London.
It also seems very obvious any answer is given will be a non-answer.
Of course it will be a non-answer since you just posted a whataboutism. You gotta give people something to work with if you want a meaningful response.
There are numerous reports of newborns with birth defects being euthanised in NHS hospitals during the Thalidomide crisis. I'm not aware of anyone waiting until the child is one year old to abort. Surely any justification to abort would be identifiable at birth.
The author discusses the impact of the pill at length in her book and I don't think she identifies as pro-life. My reading of the article was that she would like abortion to be a last resort not a first resort.
I'm pro-choice and atheist. I just thought the article presented an interesting perspective.
How did the fetus get into the woman's womb? Why do they have no responsibility towards it?
Showing consideration for the life you created when it is in it's most vulnerable form isn't in anyway comparable to organ donation.
It's not enough just to discuss it in the abstract, they need to interact with it in a controlled environment
Thanks to bestselling authors like Jonathan Haidt and Jean Twenge, the public has become increasingly aware of the rapid rise in mental health issues among younger people […] Their warnings about the destructive impact of social media have had an effect, reflected not least in a wave of schools acro...
I logged in earlier and wrote out a reply to a message in my inbox but it wouldn't go through when I hit send. After waiting and retrying I investigated further and discovered that the thread had been locked. I then checked the Modlog to see if it had been locked whilst I was typing and discovered that it had been locked 12 hours earlier.
Why can I click on the reply button and open up the reply box on a locked thread when viewing a post in my inbox?
When viewing the thread directly the reply button and box are available but you cannot type in the text box so I suppose I'll be grateful that not everyone who attempts to interact with a locked thread will have their time wasted like mine was.
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