It’s hilarious to me that Tik-Tok was banned for its ties to China (despite the US version of the app being hosted entirely on servers in the US run by Oracle) only for users to flood to an app that is extremely obviously Chinese with an already existing Chinese netizen userbase.
literally the first thing I saw in my feed after making an account 😆
Let a thousand TikToks bloom and the US oligarchs play Whac-A-Mole 🤷 https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore
That strategy kinda works too, because the law is always slower than tech, or new companies popping up. Plus its hard to roust US lawmakers to do anything but approve defense budgets.
Like the US is trying their damndest to keep Chinese phones out of the US, so they targeted Huawei. But Xiaomi, Oneplus, OPPO, Realme, and Nubia are all still growing strong.
