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Forbes is already losing their shit over people using 小红书 and the comments on the article amazing

www.forbes.com RedNote Gains Traffic Ahead Of TikTok Ban — But Sparks Consent And Control Concerns

Millions are turning to RedNote, a Chinese social media app, as its resemblance to TikTok appeals to users. But dig a little deeper, and the reality becomes far more insidious.

libs wouldn't know anything about self censorship I'm sure 😂

and not the redrawing of boundaries of acceptable thought

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How stupid do they think people are? You can't cry free speech when the US literally just banned TikTok lmao.
- I think we’ve hit the bottom now in fairness.
  
  We are nowhere near rock bottom. I would bet that a legislative priority for the US government will be to force all online services that allow account creation by Americans to be owned and operated entirely with American borders, with the Tiktok treatment given to holdouts.

Every post, like, and comment exists in an ecosystem designed to prioritize “core socialist values” over freedom of speech.
- The reason libs think they have freedom of speech is that those who don't move don't notice their chains.

the platform’s algorithms prioritize content aligned with state-approved narratives while suppressing more controversial viewpoints, effectively redrawing the boundaries of acceptable thought.
- Go and talk about Luigi or the genocide without self-censoring on any American platform and see how that goes.

One of my favorite things about western exposure to Chinese social media is the realization that Chinese netizens aren't smarmy liberals yearning for American flags and apple pie. No they're by and large "tankies" just like us. If anything they're even more likely than us to ridicule and demean western nonsense than we are.
From my limited experience Chinese posters are more powerful than we can ever conceive and I'm all for it
- The importance of this moment cannot be overstated. For the first time, millions of ordinary American workers are engaging directly with their Chinese comrades, uncovering the lies fed to them by their ruling class. This awakening is a blow to the imperialist propaganda machine and a step toward proletarian solidarity across borders.
  
  It isn't quite yet in the millions:
  Within the span of two days, more than 700,000 new users have joined Xiaohongshu, Reuters reported, citing a person close to the company. CNN has reached out to Xiaohongshu for comment.
  https://hexbear.net/comment/5821835
  Allowing for a day since the article was published and for Americans already set up on the platform, it's probably around a mil.
- They keep fucking posting walls of text that say nothing comprehensible when translated. It’s an elite troll
  
  Incredible energy
  
  the hero we need
- You can't draw any generalized conclusions about Chinese posters from what you anecdotally see on a social media app. The platforms are developed to curate your personal feed so it's not surprising a tankie will see primarily tankie posts just as it wouldn't be surprising if a lib got the impression that the same app was entirely filled with Chinese libs yearning for apple pie.
  
  The platforms are developed to curate your personal feed
  The thing is: Douyin and Tiktok were intentionally seperated for their domestic and foreign counterparts, in their own jurisdictions.
  However, xiaohongshu, as the article points out, is fully in China's hands of jurisdiction and regulations, so unless they make seperate version for foreigners, OOF, they're not getting a lot of
  Chinese libs yearning for apple pie {if by that, you mean the West, for what it reps.}.
  
  I'm not on any Chinese social media so I don't have any personal feeds that are generalized. I'm more going off memes and videos off bilibili where there will be long explanations of Marxism with a ton of people in the comments
  I run on vibes

They banned /r/chapotraphouse from
for John Brown posting.
- the idea of losing control of the narrative terrifies these people to the core

- Freedom of speech here is code for "freedom to turn social media into a rats nest of nazi conspiracy theory and racism."
- Maybe the core socialist value of Friendship was the friends we actually made along the way

Staying firmly within the existing boundaries of acceptable thought? 🧐
Redrawing the boundaries of acceptable thought? 😱
- Redrawing the boundaries of acceptable thought
  That was supposed to be what liberals say free speech is for

A vote for Bart is a vote for anarchy!

Goood, goood, let the hate flow through you!!

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My guy attached a solar light to a plastic bag and calls himself an inventor. and is part of a thing called Supertruth that scrapes health data

bro libs know and talk about the overton window constantly they cannot be saying this with a straight face

I want to know what the Chinese word is for purrito
- {猫咪卷饼|maomi juanbing} kitty burrito would be my closest guess
  Edit: if we were playing around too you could call it {猫饼|maobing} cat cake/biscuit which sounds like {毛病|maobing} (different tones) which means problem/fault/bug so you could make funny image macros of a purrito saying {你出了猫饼|ni chule maobing} thar plays on 'You've played/pulled out a purrito' and 'You've broken down'

This just sounds like the sort of moderation I'd expect out of most websites I've frequented in the past 20 years. I don't like using platforms that trend towards 4chan as time goes on. (Hence why I mostly stick around small, easy to moderate IRC channels and discord servers)

algorithms that de-emphasize expression incompatible with secretive, elite capitalist-approved narratives are good and totally benign compared to algorithms that that de-emphasize expression contrary to democratically-controlled socialist narratives, which are scary and bad.
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I find it hilarious that the comment replies on this forbes.com article, are way farther left and more aware of the US's hypocrisies than the average liberal lemmy server commenters.
The article was also just the standard orientalist "our open transparent freedom-loving democracy" vs "their authoritarian 1984 surveillance regime", with an emphasis on "protecting our youths from the evil commies". Not a shred of self reflection after the US just committed the thing they're accusing China of doing.

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