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Which means they've legislated themselves into a game of whack a mole. Without true regulations all they can do is wait for the next mole to pop up.

Someone: and they just hand over their SSN to you?

Zuckerberg: Stupid fucks

If that's true then people are more stupid than i thought

there’s genuinely been some class consciousness getting into play

i saw some users from both countries compare prices of eggs and vegetables, and they even did the necessary math of accounting for average wage and cost of living. the chinese users are not allowed to talk about their politics (sadly; this is a bad thing) but they are allowed to talk about foreign politics and they are probably bigger fans of Luigi Mangione even than i have seen in English speaking social media. there are candid discussions of queerphobia as well in its different social (and for the US, political too) manifestations between countries.

got wise and switched to foriegn apps.

I just learned from red note that Chinese people don't pay property taxes. Once they pay off their mortgage, they just own their home. I'm definitely the one living in a third world country.

I want to take it even further down, what effect does China harvesting my data have? I'm a poor white man working in a school in the Midwest with extreme left beliefs. I'm not privy to government Intel, I don't when go to school board meetings. All I watch is redstone tutorials and goblin-core videos. I'm not saying I'm a default demographic, but if you take the entire digital footprint of everyone I know, you're getting terrabytes of wasted space. You can't even use it to radicalize us because we use it for escapism, not news. Not that that's an option, I'd happy sell out this shithole for a stable job and dental, but I don't see China sending me any pizza parties.

Remember that time that China bombed a US ship in the Mediterranean though, to try to trick us into a war with Egypt?

Wait, that was "Israel".

FBI: "Be careful what Apps you use because they are all collecting data on you" "Cover your Webcam, it is probably hacked" "Turn off location on your phone, because that's being hacked" "All of our phones are being spied on by China from a back door via the telco infrastructure that the Government refuses to correct, because they want to spy to"

Congress: "Tiktok is the biggest problem"

Funny how people downvote this even though it's honestly true lmao

Probably as a protest move, but in a stupid way.

Some of it is ignorance. People see TikTok is banned, google "TikTok alternative," and click on the first sponsored result. They would need to know (and care) why TikTok was targeted in order to find something better. People hear that RedNote is the next app, so people go to RedNote, and therefore it becomes the next app.

Some of it is astroturf. Do the people telling you that RedNote has become popular have any interest in making RedNote popular? Is RedNote really exploding, or is it just interesting to talk about? Like is it going to snow heavily tomorrow, or is it good for weather services to get eyes on their content? Hype has its own inertia.

Some of it is real. RedNote was already very popular in China, and there is already a lot of content. People comparing it to Loops, for example, might find Loops sadly lacking in content and influencers. Influencers go where their audience is, and the audience follows the influencers. Nobody wants to be the last one on the new platform, and it's fairly simple to make the switch, so a whole lot of people jumped into RedNote at once because they don't care about CCP data mining or political issues.

people would rather have their personal data stolen by the chinese government than the US who poses much more of an immediate threat.

detractors describe this as astroturfing but that’s BS. congress brought this on themselves by making such a clearly self-serving gesture.

Just one of those tic tok trends basically