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[–] john89@lemmy.ca 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is fucking stupid.

Our rulers are literally dictating who we can communicate with.

[–] Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 5 days ago

Which is why decentralised open source platforms are very important.

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 45 points 6 days ago (1 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

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

thanks for saving me a click

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago

Yeah, it's always a waste of time when an article cites random people on reddit or twitter.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 39 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] jdeath@lemm.ee 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 days 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.

😝

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 23 points 6 days ago

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

[–] seven_phone@lemmy.world 57 points 6 days ago

Even international spy networks are worried about American kids.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago (5 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?

[–] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 21 points 6 days 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"

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

"don't be racist!"

CCP apologists/propagandists

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 25 points 6 days ago

Every government is scared of these dumb kids lol

[–] Fridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 6 days 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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[–] Godric@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago

Lol. Lmao, even.

Jk, my real thoughts is: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[–] PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (2 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.

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[–] airportline@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 days ago

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

[–] Cyberjin@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] COASTER1921@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days 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.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 days ago
[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 2 points 4 days ago

RedNote is really fun, haha

Also fuck me why do they know more about my country than I do???

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 6 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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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