In bad country, citizens are only allowed to use regime-approved social media.
It’s amazing how mask off they are about wanting to suppress freedom of information about China and yet burgers will breathlessly say we live in a free and open society unlike the bad guys.
It turns out Capitalism is everything they warned us Socialism would be.Turns out they couldn’t think of bad things that Socialism causes so they just projected
Quality fucking journalism right here folks! Not sure how many of you slogged all the way through the article to catch this nugget, but, well, I’ll let it speak for itself:
RedNote is heavily censored
Content on RedNote appears to be much more heavily censored than posts on TikTok. A CBS News analysis found that any search for “Xi Jinping,” China’s autocratic president, on RedNote yielded no results whatsoever.
The term “Free Hong Kong” also brought back no results. A search for “Taiwan” will turn up several memes welcoming Americans to the platform, but noting that users must recognize the Beijing-imposed narrative that the democratically governed island just off China’s coast, which the U.S. is legally bound to help defend from invasion, is an inseparable part of China.
A similar search for those terms on TikTok turns up a wide range of political opinions from users, including posts heavily critical of Chinese censorship.
The censorship double standard is wild.
Was it censorship when I caught a subreddit ban on worldnews because I pointed out that all the deaths in the HK riots were caused by rioters and that they burned an old man nearly to death?
Nah that was just site moderation right?
LMFAO
Great Satan is an understatement. Not even propaganda, just fucking lying because they know burger brains will lap it all up
You can truly see colonialist thought in real time with this “migration” to Xiaohongshu
Just a bunch of Americans pissing their pants because they can’t be monsters on another country’s platform or talk about sensitive topics completely uncensored. There is something about Anglo-saxonism that is just inherently vulgar. I truly believe it’s western thought combined with capitalism that creates some of the most disgusting humans on earth
Seriously, it’s like a sort of digital exploration although the only thing they can say they’ve “found” is a space where you can’t post pictures of xi jinping as Winnie the Pooh without getting banned or find anything you want in English
so you searched using English on a Chinese platform and you’re confused about the results?laughable. i just tried it:
“xi jinping” no results
“习近平” plenty of posts about xi jinping
real thourough journalism here
any search for “Xi Jinping,” China’s autocratic president, on RedNote yielded no results whatsoever.
omg I’m dying. it’s like the American journalist’s brain cannot conceive that other languages exist
It’s so hilarious these smooth brains are using english words to search topics on a primarily Chinese speaking platform and claiming they can’t find anything.
A CBS News analysis found that any search for “Xi Jinping,” China’s autocratic president, on RedNote yielded no results whatsoever
Searching for AfricanStream on Instagram yielded no results either :(
Lmao dawg we are trapped in the dumbest fucking society of all time jesus christ how does this get published
Legally bound to help defend from invasion good Lord.
Those legal laws and binding laws were nowhere to be found regarding genocide though
how can China invade China? When the National Guard gets sent to disaster zones in the USA, is the federal government invading them? Fuck I hate western journalists so much
Weird. I wasn’t even looking for it and came across a lot of historical images related to roc, GMD and chiang kaishek
oh how the mighty empire is falling. When the USA was unmatched in its dominance of mass media, they were pointing fingers at “Authoritarian regimes” for not respecting freeze peach and free dumb of the press by banning CIA… errr… Western media. Now that their media monopoly is challenged and their people have access to non-Western narratives, it’s all about banning. Endless hypocrisy from the US/West when they lose dominance.
It’s funny how they painted themselves into a corner with their own propaganda because they just assumed that they would always have media dominance. Westerners built their entire identity around freeze peach, and all of a sudden there’s blatant censorship happening. That must be so incredibly jarring for people to see.
their totalitarian firewall vs our forward thinking cybersecurity
I searched for “international rules based order human rights freedom” and found nothing on a foreign language app. Curious.
i searched for 平壤 and found a bunch of cool videos of chinese people visiting north korea and chinese students studying abroad in pyongyang
can you feel the freedom
We gotta compile a list of all the non-Western social/content media apps so we can stay ahead of the game.
In the darkest of days, Jeremy Renner relaunches the Renner app out of international waters
Or I guess you could go to vk.com
Jeremy Renner announces his new social media app, Little Renner Book
If the US was smart, they would use XHS as a vector to spread US propaganda. They could cultivate Westophilia among the XHS userbase, with them being especially vulnerable to pinkwashing. But the US got caught flatfooted and most likely will pick the kneejerk response, which is to ban the site.
XHS is properly moderated, so US propaganda would be kicked off pretty fast in practice. This is precisely why the US starts malding whenever a platform that’s not controlled by a US company becomes popular.
They would have to be subtle, but it can be done. The easiest way is to start by posting travel vlogs of Western tourist sites like Paris. Pinkwashing would work pretty well. Muskposting would work pretty well too (netizens mostly like Musk unlike Western social media where Musk constantly makes a fascist ass out of himself). For example, there was a viral Bilibili of Musk being AIed into some Chinese court drama where he’s going to use Doge (or whatever the fuck that agency is called) to clean up the federal government, represented as corrupt eunuchs. I’ve seen Douyin that’s just people translating trailers of Hollywood slops into Chinese, so that’s another means of the US worming their way into the Chinese cultural sphere. The ultimate goal is to cultivate Westophilia within the userbase. Actual anticommunist and anti-CPC talking point would have to be done through other channels, but the point is to prime a userbase that worships the West and is more susceptible to further Western propaganda.
The problem is that the US was caught completely unprepared and outside of various libs thinking posting about Tibet would help somehow, they’ll just move to ban the site. Apparently, Trump is holding off on banning Tiktok, so the playbook might be to ban XHS but keep Tiktok (for now) so the Tiktokers would just go back to Tiktok, where they can be controlled and surveilled. Once XHS and any other potential Chinese social media sites has been taken care of, then they’ll move in on Tiktok.
I mean they could do those things, but what’s radicalizing people is realizing what the standard of living is like for a typical person in each country. An unprecedented thing happened here where millions of regular Americans started talking directly to people in China. Now both Americans and Chinese are clearly seeing what life is like on the other side. No amount of clever propaganda can compete with that.
Even if they ban XHS, which I expect they will, the damage has been done. There’s no putting toothpaste back in the tube now. And banning it will only radicalize people further because everyone will know exactly why it’s being banned. This is a monumental propaganda disaster for the US the like of which I haven’t seen during my lifetime.
The main problem is that anti-PRC propaganda tailored towards the West relies on latent Sinophobia and Westerners not having cultural contact with Chinese people, which completely fell apart since Chinese people in XHS are so welcoming. Notice that anti-PRC propaganda is very different when it’s tailored towards the Chinese diaspora living in the West, and a lot of that propaganda doesn’t fall apart even if you have cultural contact with Chinese people. Basically, the West got really really lazy in their propaganda that’s aimed at their non-Chinese domestic population, which completely falls apart once you watch a single video that takes place in China.
There’s probably some savvy zoomer/millennial ghoul who’s desperately trying to argue that XHS should be kept open with some intricate plan on how to subtly spread US propaganda, but the technologically illiterate boomers in charge are going to completely shit on that plan after a massive blunder that they themselves had caused.
Very much agree, the cartoonish portrayals of China immediately fall apart as soon as people start interacting. I’m really optimistic that by the time they’ll actually put any kind of plan into action there will be a critical mass of Americans who’ve become inoculated. Something like half the population is on TikTok, even if 10% of these people end up checking out XHS that’s gonna completely change public opinion of China going forward.
Xiaohongshu literally translates from Mandarin to “little red book,” likely a reference to the famed little red book of quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong, the founding father of Communist China.
lmao
Journalism is when you speculate, right?
“The Earth, likely flat, considering I can’t see the curvature with the naked eye […]”
Folks, the internet guys - they’re very smart guys, the best - they come to me, and they say, - sir, - sir - we’ve got a problem. The internet border - it’s wide open. China’s coming through the routers, the cables, the tubes - however the cyber works, folks - and they’re bringing TikTok, Red Note, and probably spyware disguised as a cat video. And I said, So we’re building a wall, a big, beautiful internet wall. A little thing called Border. Gateway. Protocol. OK? The routers are gonna be so strong, folks. Tremendous routers. Apparently Biden’s routers were advertising routes to the Chinese. No more advertisement budget folks, it’s being cut. What a waste, honestly - unbelievable, the government has gone crazy.It’s been a while since I’ve fucked with BGP personally, but there is a part of me cackling over the idea of the US banning setting up BGP routes with Chinese entities only for them to discover that the direct routes between the two didn’t matter anyway given that they’re on literal opposite sides of the planet as far as internet cables are concerned and that all the intermediate routes still exist so nothing changed at all and you can still easily connect to Chinese servers.
Hmmm, maybe instagram sucks because it’s catering to the xitler nazis instead of normal people.
Also people want some good websites for once. They’re tired of American slop. Git gud, cracker state.
Do they think they can ban services faster than people find and adopt them
Try it, I guess? Their servers aren’t in the US. At worst they could take it off the app store, but fucking Fortnite taught kids how to sideload lmao.
it would be funny if the US starts building a national firewall now
Good time to buy VPN stocks (But doublecheck your vpn isn’t Israeli owned)
Refugees are such a cringe term to use for switching platforms…
yeah “defector” is better
this is worse, actually
