Americans are joining the Chinese social media app en masse to protest an imminent TikTok ban.
- American users have flocked to Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu in defiance of security warnings.
- Chinese and American users have engaged in surprisingly friendly conversations about each other’s lives.
- The influx of American users could burden Xiaohongshu’s censorship mechanism, experts say.
😳😳😳 Westerners not voluntarily giving personal information to the Chinese government for 5 seconds [Challenge Impossible (They caught us)] 😵😵💫😧
They already bought all our info from Facebook and Google so why not?
Besides, what are they going to do with it that’s worse than what an American company will?
You’re forgetting all the companies that hold on to your data forever. Yeah I bought a $4 shenanigan 5 years ago, do you really need to keep my full name, phone, email, CC details, tax number and address, stored plainly in some poorly protected, internet accessible DB?
Seriously, why should I give a shit about that at this point? Any information I put into this app they could easily get from Google.
I guess we should just all lie down and die.
Honestly, this is one of the saddest and scariest comments I’ve read in a while.
“I’ve already had one McDonald’s burger that’s bad for me, I may as well only ever eat McDonald’s burgers! Why should I care at this point?”
I agree, it is sad, but your McDonalds comparison is not at all the same situation. I do when possible try to use privacy respecting software. There’s a reason I’m on Lemmy. However, I’m using Lemmy from an Android phone. In many situations in everyday life, there is no simple way of avoiding having your data collected. My ISP and credit card companies collect and sell my usage information. I fortunately still have an older car, but when it inevitably dies, I’m gonna have to upgrade to one with an internet connection that also collects information. When my data is already being collected and sold by so many companies, I’m not going to stress myself out by worrying about adding one more, especially when the information they’d gain (my phone number and social media interests) is already plenty available from Google.
In your comparison, you act as if I’ve chosen to have this and have now given up. In reality, we’re in a world where it’s often the only option.
The correct answer is proper legislation to prevent and reduce this, because the sad truth is that the large majority of consumers never gave a shit.
On some level, it makes sense. Like, if I never plan to enter the PRC’s jurisdiction, it has less capacity to use my personal data to cause me harm than a five eyes member state does, because the Australian government does have jurisdiction where I live.
Give your dic pics to zucc bro. Send your whole bussy. /s
Veiny.
It’s a grower.
And a shower. Magnificent