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U.S. TikTokers flock to Xiaohongshu, baffling and bonding with Chinese users. (restofworld.org)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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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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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago (40 children)

This is a fine example of how the american government doesn't care about the interests of americans.

The government only exists to serve the wealthiest among us. Some of those wealthy people are upset that Chinese aristocrats are getting all that money.

This trade war only exists because rich americans want more money for themselves. It has nothing to do with national security and you're a useful idiot if you think otherwise.

[–] surph_ninja 40 points 1 day ago (37 children)

You don’t lift 800+ million people out of poverty by concentrating all of the profits among a small few. And China has increasingly been prosecuting their wealthy.

Which is what they really don’t want us learning to do.

[–] drmoose 0 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

you don’t lift 800+ million people out of poverty by concentrating all of the profits among a small few.

This is false attribution.
There's no way to verify how other political system would have worked for China. Maybe it would have worked even better? Taiwan for one is richer, stronger and happier than China per capita so does that mean dictatoriship -> democracy is a better system? Do you see the flaw in this attribution logic now? So, unless you have a time machine...

[–] surph_ninja 1 points 6 hours ago

Actually it’s very easy to know. By design, capitalism concentrates most of the reward among a small number of privileged few.

And people with good sense judge a country by how well it’s working people are doing- not by how much more wealth a few people have been able to hoard.

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