...No, it's a social media app.
If you're referring to the title of the book, it's called "Quotations from Mao Tse-tung". "Little red book" is an English nickname and Chinese people don't call it that, so the app name would not be a reference.
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2025
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From relevant Wikipedia page in Chinese: "因为最流行的版本用红色封面包装，文化大革命中通称「红宝书」
Which translates to: "Because the most popular version had a red cover, it was commonly known as the "Little Red Book" during the Cultural Revolution."
Edit: typo
It’s just insta and tiktok, it has no Maoist ideology lol
Nice try China!
If you think an app has a Maoist ideology because of its name being a reference then there’s no help for you…
You’re hosted on lemmy.selfhostcat.com, cat in Chinese is Mao. You nearly got away with it China 🕵️♂️
lol, that’s funny.
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Is red note like the death note for astroturfing?
Yes the American government tried to ban a book I can get for $6 on Amazon Prime. Why do people believe these things?
The American government doesn’t even ban books, that’s a (Southern) state government thing
*sort of, not really.
They may ban books from being stocked in school or public libraries, that's it, but they can do fuck all about the books being sold or disseminated freely by anyone else, anywhere else.
I would not be suprised when the US tries to ban that book
I mean, the name is obviously inspired by the historical little red books.
The app is also literally called Little Red Book as an alternative name
What do you mean an alternative name? That’s it’s name
You should buy a copy of Mao's little red book though.
Buying a free book is the most capitalistic thing you can do. Here it is
https://www.marxists.org/ebooks/mao/Quotations_from_Chairman_Mao_Tse-tung.pdf
The law if not explicitly for TiKTok but every app with over a milion users.
I don't think so.
But if it really has leftist ideology and good discussions in it, unlike the mostly centrist slighty left-ish discussions in social media like Reddit, that would be awesome.
Is it really so? Then I'd join it to see the discussions