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.
  • Autonomous User@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Ban Instagram, Discord and iOS first, anti-libre software.

    They never will. This ban was never to help us.

    They do not give a fuck about me or you!

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      11 minutes ago

      This ban was never to protect user privacy. It is to protect the federal government from what users willingly give away to foreign social media companies (and only those companies that are in the control of US adversaries). It was never about you and if you assumed that based on what the government said, you deserve to be disappointed. They give only fucks about what the average user can do to hurt them.

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      2 hours ago

      And ban smart TVs!

      And ban hardware firmware!

      And shipping and receiving software!

      And proprietary ore mining operation software!

      All of it! They don’t give a fuck!