TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday

There are reports that they want to sell the US branch to Musk as a contingency if their appeal to the Supreme Court doesn't work. So this whole thing might wind up making things even worse.

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Post by poszlem » Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 1:34 PM UTC

I am not saying that it's good or bad, and the geopolitical situation has changed a lot, but I miss the relative innocence, openness, and sense of unity that characterised the 2000-2010s internet.

We are slowly going in the direction of European internet, American internet, Chinese internet, Russian internet...

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Post by pjc50 » Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 1:35 PM UTC

The migration app of choice appears to be .. xiaohongshu, or "little red book". I'm guessing this won't last since it wasn't intended to have lots of Westerners using it and neither government is going to be happy with that scale of unfiltered contact between ordinary Chinese citizens and US citizens.

In the meantime, it's the place for Luigi Mangione memes.

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Post by raverbashing » Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 1:36 PM UTC

tempworkac wrote: post #3

Meanwhile many are going to another chinese app, RedNote.

I think its name is actually Xiaohongshu - "Little Red Book" (you know, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotations_from_Chairman_Mao_T... )

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Post by madhacker » Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 1:36 PM UTC

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Post by drcongo » Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 1:36 PM UTC

Can anyone enlighten me as to what this TikTok ban is supposed to be about? It feels a bit satanic panic from a distance.

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Post by __m » Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 1:37 PM UTC

pjc50 wrote: post #6

The migration app of choice appears to be .. xiaohongshu, or "little red book". I'm guessing this won't last since it wasn't intended to have lots of Westerners using it and neither government is going to be happy with that scale of unfiltered contact between ordinary Chinese citizens and US citizens. In the meantime, it's the place for Luigi Mangione memes.

Even Top 1 in the german app store where TikTok isn't banned. People identify on Red as TikTok refugees