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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This is fucking stupid.

Our rulers are literally dictating who we can communicate with.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 hours ago

Which is why decentralised open source platforms are very important.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

God that's a dream. I wish Trump would build a virtual wall to protect americans against foreigners opinions.

It would be so peaceful. Imagine a yankless internet. No more spam.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Basically a virtual Berlin wall around the whole of the US?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Worse part is that Chinese people overseas will no longer be able to connect with friends and family.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Wechat will always be allowed overseas and is the main method of communication, but the account creation process is of course a little more detailed than simply signing up with a phone number.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 20 hours ago

"May" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that title.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago

"don't be racist!"

CCP apologists/propagandists

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Try it and report back, that would actually answer the question.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Lmao "rumors swirl" means "we made it the fuck up."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

in this case reddittors made it up. so, yeah. very reliable

[–] [email protected] 13 points 23 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.

😝

[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago

They recently added new translation features. I don't think it's going to happen.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 hours ago

Well at least there's a social media that still kicks out trolls

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