Their marketing department is lagging it seems. They are running Chinese language ads on YouTube to US audiences.

It has a still frame of someone skiing or snowboarding, a QR code and the Chinese language description. Wut?

Twitter and Facebook would count as destabilising Western society.

The US politicians have destabilized the whole country. The apps just gives a place to be vocal. The US uses our data against us we just ignore it because they say they don’t.

Well, people are moving from what they see as an innocent funny video app to a much more obvious chinese controlled app in protest. Basically trying to call out the hypocrisy of the government banning tiktok when all these other apps exist.

Most people do not realize how much info tiktok gathered from you and which shady state governments it filtered into.

It’s funny though because the tiktok ban doesn’t target tiktok, it targets any foreign controlled app above a certain number of users. So as soon as red note gains a bunch of users it will be killed as hard as tiktok.

That’s of course unless both governments don’t enforce the law, like they both have said they aren’t going to do.

Well yes and no, people are moving to it, mostly as a form of protest IMO

I highly doubt it was “designed” for sowing discord and such, RedNote was very much intended to be a local Chinese SM. Most of the app isn’t even in English last I saw, just Chinese and they’re rushing to hire “English-speaking” moderators rn

At this point I think the ‘spyware app that sows discord and destabilize western societies’ is built into every corporately owned and controlled social media network.

It’s not social media any more … it’s just basic ‘spyware to sow discord and destabilize society’

Hum… The first one doesn’t seem designed for that. It’s just an afterthought use China added after it became popular.

And the second one is probably designed for apathy and “productivity enabling”. It will certainly get a redesign now.

Meanwhile, some people seem to not want the apathy and “productivity enabling” apps from the US. Too bad there aren’t many alternatives.

lol

yeah.

funniest shit I ever saw.

Potentially, but the ban was never about solving a problem it was about being seen doing something. The average old person voter who isn’t serially online has never heard of RedNote and probably won’t for many years, so the skeletons in congress don’t have to address it.

Possibly, if you’re American. The rest of the world will continue to have access.

Yes, technically speaking as passed the ban could be enforced against any app controlled by a “Foreign Adversary” as deemed by the gov (so China, Russia etc.) and is determined to be of significant threat to national security.

You don’t need to move it, everyone knows you just download more RAM duhhhh.

:P

If Ive learned one thing in my life, it’s that software and hardware are always super easy and it’s never that hard at all to do anything large or unexpected.