• Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    So, I cannot inform the Chinese about Mao murdering over 70 million people who disagreed with him and his CCP thugs. What about the Tiananmen Square massacre?

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      15 minutes ago

      People get apprehensive about that on some instances, but i totally agree with u. Alot of ccp defenders r like “BUBUT US GOVRMENT BAD TOO aarhrhh!!!” Like bro we get it its pretty much confirmed they were doing freay deaky shit with mk utlra and tons of other sus shit but that dont make ur ccp overlords “the good guys”

      • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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        4 hours ago

        Ashley Belanger May Be Embezzling Money From Ars Technica

        Just a few days after writing an article on Ars Technica about the possibility of foreign users on RedNote being walled off from Chinese users, rumors began swirling on Lemmy that she may soon decide to defraud her employer by transferring company money into her personal bank account.

        😝

  • PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I mean they added a translate button in the last day or two, so I infer that at least the people running the site are OK with encouraging the sudden American popularity.

    • Pacattack57@lemmy.world
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      2 minutes ago

      Obviously take this with a grain of salt but a spokesperson of China already said they approve of this cultural exchange.

      Remember Rednote is approved by the CCP so there was already propaganda on the app and they are using this time to piss off Americans about some of our poor policy choices. Obviously there is not much negative stuff of China on the app.

  • Fridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 hours ago

    I don’t even like TikTok but I’m so happy with how hard this whole thing is backfiring. Warms my heart

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    6 hours ago

    There has been no official announcement that such a change is coming, but Reddit commenters speculated that possibly the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was requiring a change to stop American TikTokers from using the app to influence Chinese citizens.

    Ah, that trustworthy and unbiased group of China experts that are Redditors

    Two sentences before this they were explaining quite clearly why chinese users might actually be bothered by the flood of american users and why they might want the ability to filter by IP region, but because some redditors speculated that the SeeSeePee doesn’t want the Americans to spread their freedom-loving germs to their country then that must be why they’d do it, if that rumor were to be proven true

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    4 hours ago

    Most of my lab mates are Chinese and I joined WeChat because it was what they all used. Everything was fine except my account kept getting banned for no reason. I had assumed it might be because I accidentally turned on a VPN, but ultimately I concluded it was because they didn’t want the intermingling of Chinese and American accounts, which was literally the only reason I was there in the first place.

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    5 hours ago

    That’s fair. Our own platforms are flooded with government astroturfers. They wouldn’t want those leaking in.

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    6 hours ago

    Wait - so this is the CCP directly censoring a whole worldview from its citizens.

    But I was told on several lemmy threads that the CCP lets their users consume any content, and all the censorship is American propaganda to make the great leader look bad.

    • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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      No, this is not the CCP directly censoring a whole worldview from its citizens, this is the CCP directly allowing its citizens to see that worldview while some random author speculates based on nothing but rumors and hearsay that they might change that policy in the future.

      But who needs to read past the title if it aligns with your presumptions?

    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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      5 hours ago

      Got any evidence for this censorship claim? I’ll even accept dubious screenshots.

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    18 hours ago

    Lol. Lmao, even.

    Jk, my real thoughts is: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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    7 hours ago

    The irony in this is fucking delightful. No one wants Americans using this kind of brain rot social media. Maybe that’s a sign…