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U.S. TikTokers flock to Xiaohongshu, baffling and bonding with Chinese users. (restofworld.org)
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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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[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

but the fact is no foreign country needs to do anything to make Americans hate their government.

No one was arguing about making Americans hate their government. The argument is about TikTok being a pro-CCP propaganda tool. That's it.

You keep bringing it back to "hating America", when that was never the point.

What you're saying is actually a typical diversionary tactic that pro-CCP people use. Shift the target of the argument away from the CCP, exactly the way you did.

[–] holo@lemmy.wtf 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Please read the output of your LLMs if you're going to use them, you said:

Well, the American one doesn't have an incentive to turn its own people against its own government with propaganda. As is happening with Tiktok and pushing pro-CCP and anti-American content.

It's simply not. It's allowing Americans to speak freely on America without government interference.

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Oh I'm sorry. You're right. I shall read my LLMs more carefully. /s

It's allowing Americans to speak freely on America without government interference.

Another way to look at it is that It's allowing anyone to speak negatively about Western governments.

And the point I was making is that TikTok is pushing pro-CCP propaganda; regardless if it's anti-American or not, but that's the part you keep focusing on.

And everyone keeps going on about "censorship from the gov" but the reality is that I see tons of posts, videos, blogs, articles, reels, etc on US based social media that says all kinds of stuff about the US, Canadian, UK, European, etc, governments. It's just so odd to me that Americans are so hyperfocused on "free speech" when I see all that stuff everywhere anyways. Half the time it's literally videos FROM TikTok that are just reposted elsewhere.

The main difference is that on TikTok there's a higher number of wack jobs that peddle garbage like flat earth, chem trails, anti vaxx, etc. The difference is that on Western social media that content usually comes with a disclaimer. The CCP is more than glad to allow that content because none of their citizens will see it. Chinese people can't see content on TikTok, they have a segregated version with completely different content for Chinese users. If the CCP cared about freedom, there would be no segregation.