You know this human instinct, when if told we can’t have The Thing, we start wanting it even more?
The American government told its kids that they can’t have The Thing, the thing in this case being tiktok (a Chinese-run social media app)
So they found out about an even MORE Chinese social media app (tiktok was openly courting the west, had an English language app etc, while Rednote is made by the chinese for the Chinese and doesn’t even have a client in English) and went there, which slightly miffed the Chinese userbase suddenly having to deal with all those weirdoes who wanted them to stop speaking mandarin and start speaking english.
It’s just a trend. People are trying to ascribe deep meanings to it because conspiracy thought is entertaining, but really, it’s just a bunch of people following what’s trendy, and either way for any eagle burgers pearl clutching about the red menace, Rednote is covered in the ban because it is a blanket ban on any “apps run by a foreign adversary”. You’ll be safe behind the great american firewall soon.
Ofc, I doubt it’ll be enforced for things like temu and wish.
You know this human instinct, when if told we can’t have The Thing, we start wanting it even more?
The American government told its kids that they can’t have The Thing, the thing in this case being tiktok (a Chinese-run social media app)
So they found out about an even MORE Chinese social media app (tiktok was openly courting the west, had an English language app etc, while Rednote is made by the chinese for the Chinese and doesn’t even have a client in English) and went there, which slightly miffed the Chinese userbase suddenly having to deal with all those weirdoes who wanted them to stop speaking mandarin and start speaking english.
It’s just a trend. People are trying to ascribe deep meanings to it because conspiracy thought is entertaining, but really, it’s just a bunch of people following what’s trendy, and either way for any eagle burgers pearl clutching about the red menace, Rednote is covered in the ban because it is a blanket ban on any “apps run by a foreign adversary”. You’ll be safe behind the great american firewall soon.
Ofc, I doubt it’ll be enforced for things like temu and wish.