cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24394554

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So far, Americans using RedNote have said they don't care if China has access to their data. Viral videos on TikTok in recent days have shown Americans jokingly saying they will miss their personal "Chinese spy," while others say they are purposefully giving RedNote access to their data in a show of protest against the wishes of the U.S. government.

"This also highlights the fact that people are thirsty for platforms that aren't controlled by the same few oligarchs," Quintin said. "People will happily jump to another platform even if it presents new, unknown risks."

  • ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    ·
    7 hours ago

    Lmmfao, who do you think runs the Chinese government, the workers?

    Anyway, thanks for providing an example of exactly the kind of bullshit and excuses I was referring to.

    • DoiDoi [comrade/them, he/him]
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      4 hours ago

      https://redsails.org/losurdo-on-china/

      Read that to learn about how wealth is not able to be translated into political power in China like it is in capitalist controlled countries. @ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net wasn't talking out of their ass - you are just ignorant on this subject.

      Having to post this Losurdo essay for the second time today because westerners can't help themselves but talk absolute nonsense about China anytime it comes up.

    • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
      ·
      7 hours ago

      they execute billionaires from time to time. when's the last time a western country did that?

        • Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]
          ·
          5 hours ago

          Yes unlike the barbaric yellow hordes, their western betters have the civility to only perform executions in the streets, prior to arrest.

          • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
            ·
            4 hours ago

            Extrajudicial street executions happens in Baghdad and Boston, both are done by white supremacist thumbs exported from the USA

    • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
      ·
      6 hours ago

      With a Vanguard party made up of nearly 10% of the population... uh yeah, kinda. Not in a fully idealised sense, but certainly in enough of one that billionaires actually get prosecuted for their crimes.

    • Packet [none/use name]
      ·
      7 hours ago

      Yes, the workers indeed run the country, with over 99 million people in the party

    • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
      ·
      7 hours ago

      Certainly not this guy.

      https://www.reuters.com/world/china/former-bank-china-chairman-gets-suspended-death-sentence-bribery-state-media-2024-11-26/