US’s TikTok ban

[alor]

RedNote explosion: Millions of Americans discover a different China US’s TikTok ban, intended to counter Chinese “influence operations,” backfired as American users swarmed RedNote.

“Simple chats with average Chinese people showed many Americans how toxic their system is,” wrote journalist Li Jiangjing, sharing a video of a frustrated American discovering the US isn’t a paradise.

Her comments were echoed across social media, with Americans talking to Chinese people and discovering: that Americans spend more on groceries, public transportation, dining out, housing, while lacking healthcare and a social safety net, that China doesn’t share in the US’s neoliberal economic system and regulates for the sake of ordinary citizens, who aren’t drowning in debt, that America isn’t really a “first world country,” and that Chinese society isn’t as “cold and disconnected” as the US, just how far China emphasizes education and advances in technology, that Americans “are not free,” and “live under an oligarchy,” that Chinese are welcoming and curious of Americans, that the Chinese state has nothing on US Big Tech when it comes to collecting users’ online information. RedNote has amassed over 3.4 million US users in days. Over 300 million people in China use the popular social networking and e-commerce app.

 

[Silver Soul]

These social media platforms I just don't get it. I have never signed up for one of them yet! Why would I expose my personal life to an unknown entity? I guess it is just that black sheepness in me

 

[alor]

 

[Silver Soul]

I'd walk the streets of China any day over its counterpart America. That little Chinese American is cute but blabs too much. I am well-educated and travelled this vast planet with a look-see-myself attitude.... I recommend all to do the same before commenting on another nation they know fugall about.

 

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