For folks who are freaked out about Americans using a Chinese social network, the vibe there right now is much more that of shooting shit with some folks you just met at a bar rather than anything else.
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For the right wing billionaires, that is probably the absolute worst outcome from this.
Super duper evil communist animals are turning out to be just regular people. Whoda thunkit.
Chinese are also appalled that america really is as bad as they've been told by their govt lmao
Not true. I watched TilTok promote the HELL out of anti-Biden/anti-Harris rhetoric, and when I corrected stuff that was blatantly false, *I* got community guideline violations. When I reported easily debunked disinformation? "No violation found." TT SPEWS anti-American propaganda.
They already updated to translate option on mine. My feed that I’m trying to keep fully china is full of artist and I’m being influenced to create flower art and repair a broken tea cup. Meta influenced me to want to bang head into wall. I’ll take red book to smell flowers instead.
You’re using an app that was literally named after Mao’s Little Red Book.
Most of the users may be perfectly normal people with normal beliefs & reasons to post. The app is still controllable by an authoritarian adversary of the US.
Same as TikTok. The app & users minus the CCP would be fine.
But if y'all are just talking to each other like regular human beings, how are they supposed to demonise the Chinese people and intrinsically link them to the CCP.
Remote servers are already being siloed so that Americans do not converse with Chinese too freely. If you believe this will last you are naive. But the last 24 hours explained a lot about the weakness of America and how removing 1 app is all that needs to be threatened to make them fall in line.
Comments sections are filled to the brim with average folk from America and China sharing what life is like for us respectively. We're sharing the good and the bad alike on both ends.
I've learned some fascinating stuff about life in China. Not good, not bad, just interesting.
I think the big thing it showed is we as 99% from anywhere have so much in common from wanting to thrive, smile and laugh. We all have good and bad and feelings about the world. But we are not as divided as lead to believe.
Breaking bread with people over a meal brings communities together always.
Its a genuinely significant moment, I think. Millions of typical citizens from these countries are just… chatting. Talking about work, complaining about aches and pains, and helping each other understand what lies we've been told by our respective governments.
They believe a LOT about America that is completely untrue, but paints us in a very good light. Many folks there think we have free healthcare and our students don't have homework.
It may not last, but for now, I've got new friends.
(Also, no American who is on that app remotely cares about any argument about China invading privacy. Thats specifically why they all moved there, as a fuck-you to the government for being belligerently xenophobic)
Yeah…. I’d rather they believe a lot of untrue things that put us in a negative light. It just stings so much knowing they think things like our healthcare system are functional.
Someone described it as feeling like they're 5 again, just making little pen pal buddies with no regard for bigger social conflicts or conflicting views. "You wanna be friends?" "Ya ok let's be friends!" Everyone is so excited to just be able to talk directly to each other.
Real. I’ve already seen a Chinese girl joking and giving us terrible advice I love it there. Also there are A TON of mandarin teachers from what I’ve seen so now Duolingo will finally get some mileage
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Super duper evil communist animals are turning out to be just regular people. Whoda thunkit.
Chinese are also appalled that america really is as bad as they've been told by their govt lmao
Most of the users may be perfectly normal people with normal beliefs & reasons to post. The app is still controllable by an authoritarian adversary of the US.
Same as TikTok. The app & users minus the CCP would be fine.
I’m upset because people act like it’s such a redemption for free speech to use an app that’s controlled by an aggressive authoritarian.
Post this pic and see what happens.
(Is that still a thing?)
I've learned some fascinating stuff about life in China. Not good, not bad, just interesting.
Breaking bread with people over a meal brings communities together always.
It may not last, but for now, I've got new friends.
Cuz nothing says america like a bilionaire whose companies keep having workplace violations and insufferable workplace conditions
I recommend this, from about 6:30 on, an interview with Asha Rangappa, professor of national security law at Yale. https://bsky.app/profile/asharangappa.bsky.social/post/3lfvpfujhw22f