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/BlatantConservative Jan 18 '25

I mean, yes, it's government backed homophobia. But the forces that drive it are entirely different than western forces. It's also the same reason they put Muslim Ughyuirs into camps and banned K-Pop

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u/hahaha01357 Jan 18 '25

They banned Kpop? That's news to me

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u/BlatantConservative Jan 18 '25

Yeah, it was 2017 or so. They banned Kpop groups from touring and banned Kpop from the TV and from being distributed for money on the internet..

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u/jrodp1 Jan 18 '25

Ones religious, ones political. The US has government backed homophobia too.