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Americans are joining the Chinese social media app en masse to protest an imminent TikTok ban.

  • American users have flocked to Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu in defiance of security warnings.
  • Chinese and American users have engaged in surprisingly friendly conversations about each other’s lives.
  • The influx of American users could burden Xiaohongshu’s censorship mechanism, experts say.
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

It seems similar to tiktok; nudity is not OK, but sex-adjacent stuff like bondage is just fine. Art is fine as long as the genitals and nips are censored.

If anything, the chinese government should be thrilled by the idea of Americans seeing that chinese people are just like them and learning first-hand that 90% of what they thought they knew about China was just racism and western propaganda.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I mean yeah TikTok heavily buried criticism against the Communist Party as well, but it wasn’t flat out banned to talk about how a state deals with religion. It is on Red Book (actual translation of the chinese name of the app and yes it is named after Mao’s “Mein Kampf” type of book)

They are probably not all that thrilled. They’re completely censoring their internet and run own, chinese speaking apps abroad to stay in control of the narrative and their citizens. Having a bunch of friendly Americans hop on the app to show them how we’re all just humans on this silly planet is kind of a nightmare for the bureau of propaganda in Beijing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Have you read either of those works?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Comparing Quotations by Mao to fucking Mein Kampf, you are an unserious person.

And also the exact kind of person who would benefit from going on rednote and talking to these people instead of believing whatever bullshit you're told about them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

It's a mass murdering dictator's propaganda book and nothing else. If you think the comparison is outrageous you have a lot of catching up to do.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

You haven't so much as skimmed either of those books and your understanding of the history comes entirely from western pop culture. You are not a serious person.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago

Many people died because of both books

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 hours ago

I treat these people like those who think the Earth is flat. Ordinary foreigners may not be actively followed by someone nowadays. But things like heavy censorship, starvation in certain recent situations, travelling restrictions, they may never experience them in their own country their whole life. Nor did their parents experienced something far, far worse. Those who live to tell the story maybe lucky or unlucky. They never have to tell those things only privately.