Court expected to uphold TikTok Ban SMH

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You know I’m not even mad at the kids for fighting this. This is theirs and it’s being taken away. Their world isn’t big enough to understand the big picture. Imagine if back in the day yuku was owned by the Chinese and they took NT from us. We all would be pissed. I’d refuge to Li-Ning Talk looking lost and sad.

 

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Damn it seems banning Tik tok is having the opposite effect. Tik tok might have been shielding these kids

 

[getback]

Unpopular opinion, but TikTok can lowkey be useful if you’re searching for specific things. I came across a lot of good date ideas, reviews for hotels/restaurants/excursions. I never posted tho.

I think you're right.

Problem is that Americans typically take things like technology and **** them up royally, which why the majority of TikTok content is likely absolute junk.

 

[fluid hips]

Tiktok views aint ****, when you get sponsorships and such is where the money is. You need multiple million view videos a week (if all you are doing to make money are videos to get views) to even sniff a decent paycheck. Views aint what you want per se, sponsorships are.

This is the problem with what social media and the internet has become.

Back then people loved to create and share things purely out of passion. Now people "create" for monetization

It's become a giant whorehouse

 

[swendro]

Damn it seems banning Tik tok is having the opposite effect. Tik tok might have been shielding these kids

Another dummy who needs to log off.

She downloads an app and within days has seen the lifestyle that all of the Chinese people have.

Yeah right.

 

[gry60]

Damn it seems banning Tik tok is having the opposite effect. Tik tok might have been shielding these kids

RedNote may wall off “TikTok refugees” to prevent US influence on Chinese users

Rumors swirl that RedNote may segregate Chinese users as soon as next week.

arstechnica.com

Just a few days after more than 700 million new users flooded RedNote—which Time noted is "the most apolitical social platform in China"—rumors began swirling that RedNote may soon start segregating American users and other foreign IPs from the app's Chinese users.

In the "TikTokCringe" subreddit, a video from a RedNote user with red eyes, presumably swollen from tears, suggested that Americans had possibly ruined the app for Chinese Americans who rely on RedNote to stay current on Chinese news and culture.

"RedNote or Xiaohongshu released an update in the greater China region with the function to separate out foreign IPs, and there are now talks of moving all foreign IPs to a separate server and having a different IP for those who are in the greater China area," the Reddit poster said. "I know through VPNs and other ways, people are still able to access the app, but essentially this is gonna kill the app for Chinese Americans who actually use the app to connect with Chinese content, Chinese language, Chinese culture."

The narrative that the US is at fault for keeping average Americans and average Chinese apart is so far from reality, and I'm tired of seeing this being pushed everywhere.

The Chinese government carefully curates what their population sees on the internet. Chinese folks use VPNs to access American apps and websites that are freely available to the rest of the world.

People need to get a grip.

 

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RedNote may wall off “TikTok refugees” to prevent US influence on Chinese users

Rumors swirl that RedNote may segregate Chinese users as soon as next week.

arstechnica.com

The narrative that the US is at fault for keeping average Americans and average Chinese apart is so far from reality, and I'm tired of seeing this being pushed everywhere.

The Chinese government carefully curates what their population sees on the internet. Chinese folks use VPNs to access American apps and websites that are freely available to the rest of the world.

People need to get a grip.

agreed but you are talking to a bunch of kids who just got their toys taken away.
but the points that are being made by the chinese citizens aren't wrong. i.e americans deny the ambulance cause it costs too much meanwhile it's very affordable in china.

 

[gry60]

agreed but you are talking to a bunch of kids who just got their toys taken away.
but the points that are being made by the chinese citizens aren't wrong. i.e americans deny the ambulance cause it costs too much meanwhile it's very affordable in china.

Defending that law in particular =/= defending American social media companies.

Unfortunately, that's how the discussion is being approached. The way I see it, the discussion on banning foreign adversaries (which has a legal definition, btw) from hosting data from American residents should be an entry point for the larger discussion about privacy rights, what American companies can and can't do with the info we entrust them with, and how that should be enforced. Instead, we are getting boneheaded, reactionary actions by HS grads and above who can't be bothered to read a very simple piece of legislation.

 

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https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/duolingo-sees-216-spike-in-u-s-users-learning-chinese-amid-tiktok-ban-and-move-to-rednote/

 

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White house just said it won't enforce it