• @[email protected]
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    65 months ago

    Why? Isn’t that as racist as the us banning TikTok in the first place?

    I smell a double standard from the red and yellow country again.

    • @[email protected]
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      15 months ago

      The US banning tiktok has little to do with race.

      It’s about American oligarchs wanting the profits of Chinese oligarchs.

      People like you are the lowliest of foot-soldiers in this game.

    • Communist
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      15 months ago

      This isn’t even real read the article the source is “some guy on reddit speculates” and that’s not even a joke it’s embarrasing

  • @[email protected]
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    I tried to challenge some ideas in World News and I guess asking questions about Chinese censorship is xenophobic. Now I’m banned for not being pro Chinese censorship.

    • Sidyctism II.
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      whats that about “curry smell” and “they discovered deodorant”?

      edit: nvm, those are from somebody else

        • @[email protected]
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          155 months ago

          I wouldn’t take it seriously, they gave me a month long instance ban for saying a federal representative democracy is by definition a type of democracy.

          “American propaganda” or something.

                • @[email protected]
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                  God, shut up nerd, like your red fascist bullshit and their one party elections were or are better. Do you want to hear that it’s a flawed system? It is. All states are and should be abolished.

                  Still a type of democracy, and still more democratic than anything Russia or China have ever managed.

                • @[email protected]
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                  75 months ago

                  Uhhh yeah. The Constitution establishes a federal democratic republic form of government. That is, we have an indivisible union of 50 sovereign States. It is a democracy because people govern themselves. It is representative because people choose elected officials by free and secret ballot.

      • @[email protected]
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        55 months ago

        Those sound like comments on a different topic, specifically the story about Paris’ improvements in air quality lately (because they built bike infrastructure and partially banned cars). I had to remove nearly identical comments in the [email protected] thread on it, for the same reason.

      • BombOmOm
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        365 months ago

        Those are other users’ comments. Not sure how those are relevant to JiveTurkey’s comments.

    • GodlessCommie
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      85 months ago

      You weren’t trying to challenge ideas. You were regurgitating US propaganda.

      • @[email protected]
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        85 months ago

        Just asking questions instead of excusing it all under the guise of propaganda. I have no doubt some of it is, but all of it?

        • GodlessCommie
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          25 months ago

          When our government has a long history of direct lies it’s safe to assume everything they say is a lie.

          • finder
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            25 months ago

            My man, I am really curious where you get your news from.

    • @[email protected]
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      325 months ago

      Oh gosh, I thought you meant .world World News for a minute there. Yeah the problem is .ml, they’re tankies.

    • [email protected]
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      1155 months ago

      .ml

      There’s your problem. If they stated their rules, rather than forcing people to figure them out by trial and error, I’d have less of an issue with it. Like, lemmygrad is explicit in its intent and they state it outright in their rules. Lemmy.ml plays it too coy, and so comes off as incredibly manipulative.

    • @[email protected]
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      To be fair, there are plenty of critical content. It’s just that they use coded language to avoid the censorship. (Probably not on XHS / RedNote though? It’s more of a Facebook equivalent.)

    • @[email protected]
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      125 months ago

      TikTok is banned in China, so why would anyone ever expect this would be different in this case?

      • @[email protected]
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        185 months ago

        They have Douyin (it’s a carbon copy of tiktok). Rednote released a public statement welcoming US users, no evidence that what this article implies is being considered at all. The evidence is a reddit post. You are responding in agreement to a propaganda rag.

        • @[email protected]
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          115 months ago

          They blocked the TikTok domain in China. What would you call that, if not a ban?

          You are naive if you believe they aren’t going to sever the communities. That was always going to happen.

        • @[email protected]
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          65 months ago

          Why is it a different product then? Does it allow the same content? Same algorithm?

          Or is it different, and not an actual carbo copy?

          • Jin
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            15 months ago

            They are different like McDonald’s and Burger King. While similar, Douyin is only available for people in China and it’s heavenly censored and have a lot propaganda from Chinese government.

        • Jin
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          35 months ago

          But TikTok is still banned by China… Chinese people cannot sign up for TikTok and communicate with the outside world.

    • @[email protected]
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      895 months ago

      Imo it’s more sad than hilarious. US users and Chinese users meeting each other on the platform and discovering they are interesting people who actually have a lot in common sounds like what I’d wish the internet to be.
      It’s not surprising, and I get the irony, but I feel more sad than amused.

      • @[email protected]
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        215 months ago

        You know, the news about Chinese and American users comparing their worldviews seemed weird to me because it reads like this is the first time Chinese and American users have interacted and had the chance to talk “candidly”.

        My first thought was, “Why the fuck is this news? It’s not like Chinese users can’t interact on American platfor—”

        …oh. Right. The great firewall.

    • @[email protected]
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      1235 months ago

      I knew it was coming since that article yesterday about us Americans posting vids of 3D printed guns lmao

    • @[email protected]
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      445 months ago

      This was the turn of events anyone who knows anything about China and the CCP (and how closely they control businesses there) would have expected.

  • @[email protected]
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    295 months ago

    So, I cannot inform the Chinese about Mao murdering over 70 million people who disagreed with him and his CCP thugs. What about the Tiananmen Square massacre?

  • @[email protected]
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    185 months ago

    I don’t even like TikTok but I’m so happy with how hard this whole thing is backfiring. Warms my heart

  • @[email protected]
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    155 months ago

    I mean they added a translate button in the last day or two, so I infer that at least the people running the site are OK with encouraging the sudden American popularity.

    • @[email protected]
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      55 months ago

      Obviously take this with a grain of salt but a spokesperson of China already said they approve of this cultural exchange.

      Remember Rednote is approved by the CCP so there was already propaganda on the app and they are using this time to piss off Americans about some of our poor policy choices. Obviously there is not much negative stuff of China on the app.

  • OBJECTION!
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    415 months ago

    Lmao “rumors swirl” means “we made it the fuck up.”

      • OBJECTION!
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        165 months ago

        Ashley Belanger May Be Embezzling Money From Ars Technica

        Just a few days after writing an article on Ars Technica about the possibility of foreign users on RedNote being walled off from Chinese users, rumors began swirling on Lemmy that she may soon decide to defraud her employer by transferring company money into her personal bank account.

        😝

  • @[email protected]
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    75 months ago

    That’s fair. Our own platforms are flooded with government astroturfers. They wouldn’t want those leaking in.

  • @[email protected]
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    95 months ago

    Most of my lab mates are Chinese and I joined WeChat because it was what they all used. Everything was fine except my account kept getting banned for no reason. I had assumed it might be because I accidentally turned on a VPN, but ultimately I concluded it was because they didn’t want the intermingling of Chinese and American accounts, which was literally the only reason I was there in the first place.

    • Pika
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      25 months ago

      I been told Wechat requires phone number, do they not check VOIP numbers or did they just not block your number for creation? That’s super weird.

      • @[email protected]
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        25 months ago

        They have (or had) a system for reactivation that involved endorsement from another account. IIRC it was QR code based, so one of my friends would scan my reactivation QR code and a few verification texts later I’d have my account back. The last time I was banned, it was after I hearted one of my friend’s posts about his graduation.