If you had so much as read a summery of both, or even like just opened either to a random place and read a few paragraphs, you would immediately understand why those are solid assumptions from what you’ve said.
But even now, instead of taking the most basic steps to educate yourself, you’re fortifying a position of ignorance.
China paying entire offices of people to be friendly, entertaining, and educational to foreigners online would be cool actually.
foreign governments
The influence of foreign governments is negligible next to what the US exerts on us. Americans have the jester’s privilege, we can say whatever we want, as long as they know it doesn’t matter. As soon as the government feels like it matters, they have a million tools to silence you.
Rednote is mostly chinese users.
No, it’ll probably take weeks to days; with the new law the president can unilaterally ban any foreign-owned app with 1 million users.
Watch Biden ban it on Jan 19th as a final fuck you.
You know the official name of Taiwan’s government is The Republic of China right?
Rednote started exploding 3 days ago, it’s been #1 on android and apple stores since.
They’ll probably get mocked and their posts removed.
So no, instead of getting a primary source, you’re just gonna stick with people who have never been to china and wouldn’t have a job if they said positive things about China?
You can lead a horse to water…
Instead of asking chinese people living in china about a system which supposedly exists in China, you’d rather just keep listening to western propaganda?
Why don’t you go on rednote and ask them about social credit? They have a search function where you can see other posts tagged as much.
I suspect it’s looking for alipay or wechat or something.
LOL, the irony is that red note is censoring posts from those “tiktok refugee”.
If they’re applying any special moderation to tiktok refugee tagged posts, I’m not seeing it. I’m seeing a lot of people say not to discuss politics, but I’m also seeing a lot of posts asking Chinese users specifically about stuff like social credit systems and other weird perceptions or asking about what crazy perceptions Chinese users have about Americans (like that we can work at a restaurant for 3 months and afford to buy a house??).
What’s the difference between censorship and moderation in this context?
It’s genuinely superior to tiktok though, the algo rewards like 1% of the ragebait, uncredited reposts, and deceptive posts that tiktok does. If they reverse the ban, I’m not going back.
Also, just because there are no ads, doesn’t mean that no one is propping up the business.
There is a shopping tab, and ads are allowed as long as it’s declared I think. Undeclared sponsored content gets bans.
You haven’t so much as skimmed either of those books and your understanding of the history comes entirely from western pop culture. You are not a serious person.
Comparing Quotations by Mao to fucking Mein Kampf, you are an unserious person.
And also the exact kind of person who would benefit from going on rednote and talking to these people instead of believing whatever bullshit you’re told about them.
It seems similar to tiktok; nudity is not OK, but sex-adjacent stuff like bondage is just fine. Art is fine as long as the genitals and nips are censored.
If anything, the chinese government should be thrilled by the idea of Americans seeing that chinese people are just like them and learning first-hand that 90% of what they thought they knew about China was just racism and western propaganda.
Dems showed last election they’re not even willing to promise concessions to their voting base, so if you can’t actually do anything to help people afford groceries, how can they use the economy to campaign? Just go “Trump is terrible for the economy! We’re gonna be good for the economy”?