Great job, US government. You went so overboard with your “TikTok is an evil Chinese app” and deciding to ban it that you’re pushing kids to go even deeper into the Chinese app ecosystem. The US go…
  • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    4 hours ago

    Sigh. Two things. 1. This will not force the government to capitulate on the Tik Tok situation. It does not have the hallmarks of an effective protest and the federal government will ban these apps too. If you don’t think so you should read the bill in question.

    1. Rednote and apps like it have the opposite in TOS and content moderation (meaning these new users will not be able to use these apps as free speech platforms because the Chinese government does not allow that on those apps). It’s very likely that any user trying to organize for LGBTQ or other marginalized groups will be banned pretty much right away for breaking the content policy of apps like rednote.
    • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      2 hours ago

      Maybe but governments are slow to react. There will be a couple of months of relative freedom. Then we’ll have to find new apps again.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
    51·
    8 hours ago

    This is probably going to make the US government confident they made the right choice banning tiktok and start the next step which is banning more chinese platforms.