r/technology • u/longiner • Jan 18 '25

Social Media As US TikTok users move to RedNote, some are encountering Chinese-style censorship for the first time

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/16/tech/tiktok-refugees-rednote-china-censorship-intl-hnk/index.html
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u/Baer9000 Jan 18 '25

Sure. Who cares. I still fear our oligarchs we have here and the politicians that do their bidding A LOT more than Xi Jinping because they are the ones that are actually undermining the US. Zuckerberg and Musk are just the latest in a long line of rich assholes who want to buy our politicians, and in the case of TikTok they bought out the US government to ban their competition. It is corruption in plain sight.

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u/JB_07 Jan 18 '25

I mean, that's cool, but you're ignoring the plain fact that Tik Tok is Chinese Spyware. They've had plenty of time to make Tik Tok less invasive for it to be allowed in America for years, and they chose not to. So they got banned.

I'm going to wakeup bright eyed and bushy tailed, seeing the salt coming from ignorant Tik Tok users.

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u/Baer9000 Jan 18 '25

And I will wake up saddened, knowing that our government censored an app not for national security, but because they don't have control over the content/want to appease the campaign donors like Zuckerberg and musk.

"OH no. China may or may not know that I liked a video about gaza and ordered an air fryer from Amazon. This is truelly the downfall of our nation and not our freedom of speech being eroded "

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u/JB_07 Jan 18 '25

My lord. Bro takes a national security risk and makes it all about him. I thought we been through this before? One person's data isn't going to do shit. But having literally 10's of millions of enemy governments citizens in your pockets can hold unimaginable power even if you don't know it.

Nobody has used an app in that way before, which is why people don't understand how it can be weaponized. But it's bad purely just because you're inconvenienced.

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u/Baer9000 Jan 18 '25

My brother in christ, it is not a national security risk. If it was, our government could actually show us how. They have had many years to show us how it is, and have refused to. Our senators say "just trust us bro". Our congress has like a 15% approval rating. I don't trust shit they say unless they back it up.

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u/JB_07 Jan 18 '25

Well, I'm just gonna agree to disagree because I got shit to do. Either way, Tik Tok is going down, and I'm ready to smell the salt tomorrow morning. Peace.

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u/Baer9000 Jan 18 '25

Have a blessed day. I'm sure this supreme court decision won't be used to ban other "problematic" software so you i am sure you will wake up on January 20th with the exact same rights as before /s.