If Americans are dumb enough to unironically flock over to an app literally called “Little Red Book” in Chinese, we honestly deserve whatever comes next.
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Dude the whole point is doing it ironically. Seriously, you are aware enough to know better — the US government is trying to convince people that they aren’t’t wise or mature enough to make their own decisions about content or privacy. That we should be concerned about what info the CCP has …
..but not what Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Bezos has. That we need a law to protect us from an app but not one to protect us from armed lunatics in schools because freedom. That this isn’t in fact being driven by AIPAC and the ADL who ate concerned about a narrative about Zionism they…
…can’t control being available to citizens. I’ve followed you long enough to know you are not naive enough to believe there are sincere motives behind efforts to demonise Telegram and TikTok but not Google or Facebook. I downloaded the app. I accessed FB through proxies in both Syria and Iran.
He failed to recognise that people are downloading the app precisely to send a message that they don’t like the government telling them what to do, not because they are “dumb”
After what Elon Musk was allowed to do in this election and how Donald Trump has been able to abuse the office of the President people are saying what’s so bad about China owning an app. Blame the Republicans and the Supreme Court.
If nothing else it’s a fascinating sociological experiment. Americans are learning Mandarin, swapping cultures and lifestyles, talking to people outside the US! Going to be interesting
If they are it’s because big tech has forgotten what ‘social’ means. I’m not sure they’re coming back. They seem to quite like no abuse, friendly chat, real people and not having extreme ideologies in your face.
I get that. They do it through censorship rather than Musk rants. But most people just want a social platform to talk to each other, not stake out positions. Tech has forgotten that and gone 4Chan
I thought the same thing when we reelected Trump after “They’re eating the dogs! They’re eating the cats!” his indictments, sexual assault settlement, and dressing up to fake hand out McDonald’s.
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We are a failed culture and a failed nation.
Turns out, we want to learn the hard way.