Wait, people are really just moving from one chinese spyware app designed to sow discord and destabilize western societies to another chinese spyware app designed to sow discord and destabilize western societies?
How comes that whenever one criticizes Tiktok there's always gonna be multiple comments screeching ”BuT fAcEbOoK aNd TwItTeR“ though nobody said they weren't also garbage? And funnily, if you criticize any of those two, someone comes screeching ”BuT tIkToK“
The US politicians have destabilized the whole country. The apps just gives a place to be vocal. The US uses our data against us we just ignore it because they say they don't.
If sowing discord means posting pictures of food and just generally being nice to one another, I'm not sure the status quo being disturbed is worth protecting.
Oh no it turns out that Chinese people are friendly and normal this will surely be the downfall of the West.
The problem with TT isn't it's content, the "food pictures and people being nice to each other" you referenced, its with how TT uses its algorithm to influence its users and the risk of them misusing the data their app collects.
Well yes and no, people are moving to it, mostly as a form of protest IMO
I highly doubt it was "designed" for sowing discord and such, RedNote was very much intended to be a local Chinese SM. Most of the app isn't even in English last I saw, just Chinese and they're rushing to hire "English-speaking" moderators rn
Well, people are moving from what they see as an innocent funny video app to a much more obvious chinese controlled app in protest. Basically trying to call out the hypocrisy of the government banning tiktok when all these other apps exist.
Most people do not realize how much info tiktok gathered from you and which shady state governments it filtered into.
It's funny though because the tiktok ban doesn't target tiktok, it targets any foreign controlled app above a certain number of users. So as soon as red note gains a bunch of users it will be killed as hard as tiktok.
That's of course unless both governments don't enforce the law, like they both have said they aren't going to do.
Everyone that moved to rednote absolutely knows their data was scrapped by Tiktok, including contacts and general behavior on their phone.
We're 30 years past that mattering. Everyone corporations and thus every government with money knows what you masturbate to and what makes you laugh. They all know where you work and what your net worth is. If they don't it takes less than a dollar to find out through your advertising id report.
None of the major data brokers refuse to sell to specific governments.
At this point I think the 'spyware app that sows discord and destabilize western societies' is built into every corporately owned and controlled social media network.
It's not social media any more .... it's just basic 'spyware to sow discord and destabilize society'
Potentially, but the ban was never about solving a problem it was about being seen doing something. The average old person voter who isn’t serially online has never heard of RedNote and probably won’t for many years, so the skeletons in congress don’t have to address it.
Yes, technically speaking as passed the ban could be enforced against any app controlled by a "Foreign Adversary" as deemed by the gov (so China, Russia etc.) and is determined to be of significant threat to national security.
If Ive learned one thing in my life, it's that software and hardware are always super easy and it's never that hard at all to do anything large or unexpected.