• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    This is the third story I’ve seen today that was basically “Tiktok users flee service to other chinese service app you’ve never heard of”

    So basically the usa banned tiktok, and now there’s 3 other tiktoks, all connecting the same amount of data for china, just through 3 different services instead of 1.

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      1 month ago

      Sounds about right, From my understanding, they singled out TikTok instead of addressing the actual problem they claim to care about.

      [Edit, another comment says its any app with 1million users. So now there’s just going to be a hundred TikTok clones all under the same umbrella just different names.]

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      Honestly, I don’t even believe these articles. At some point it just starts to sound like they are making things up.

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        I mean, this is real easy to fact check. Open whichever playstore you prefer and sort by most downloaded. Red note and 8 will be up there.

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      XiaoHongShu is much older than tiktok, it started shortly after facebook, though resembles more a mix of Twitter and Instagram.

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        XiaoHongShu was founded in 2013, Facebook was founded in 2004…

        Your sense of time is a bit warped…

  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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    I don’t want to rain on everyone’s parade but I think the law bans all apps with over 1 million users that are based in China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea (“foreign adversary controlled applications”) where you can make a profile and share content. WeChat would definitely count. So, Red Note is probably/possibly going away soon too. I guess VKontakte is Russian and still in the app stores.

    The media is focused on creators and TikTok, obviously. But a WeChat ban would probably suck for people with grandparents in China since that’s the “everything app” there. (I don’t know what China bans but even if there’s other messaging apps allowed in China, teaching your elderly Chinese grandma to use a different app on a ~12h time zone difference is probably not a fun activity.)

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      Russia is no longer an adversary with the incoming administration, Putin owns Trump and their interests are now are own.

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          No sarcasm, I’m happy that you agree. But we have no power to stop whatever the fuck he’s going to do, so we’re just talking semantics.

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      It’s any app they can point to as being controlled. It does not matter where it is based. As an example they could allege that one of the owners of Discord has Russian contacts and is therefore controlled by a foreign adversary. (He was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine; where contact between Russians and Ukrainians wasn’t uncommon before the current war.)

      Congress can request a briefing but if they want to prevent a fire sale they have to pass an entirely new bill amending the law.

      And this article is so transparently an ad for Red Note it’s ridiculous.

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    The number of people in the comments celebrating censorship by our own government while also claiming China is authoritarian is insane.

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      Both can be true. I’m against banning TikTok, but I also think TikTok is absolutely terrible and nobody should use it. China is authoritarian, and this ban by the US is wrong. I say this as an American.

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        Why is it terrible? Have you ever even been on it? Most people I’ve encountered that say it’s terrible or it’s brain rot or something along those lines have never even been on it, they’re simply parroting what they’ve heard other people say

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          I’ve seen people scrolling on it their whole time on public transportations on materials worse than the worst of TV commercials, like they were in a trance. I know people who using it for at lease an hour every day before bed, and admitting they don’t know what they get from it, just boredom. From what I know, it’s like brainwashing for people who don’t know what to do with their lives.