The ban isn't really about privacy concerns

It is about control. All governments want the information under control. The social media from another country is out of the control, that's the real concern of all the governments, Chinese or US.

I bet the US officials also wish to set up a Great-Firewall for the American, which would eliminate all the accesses to the web sites much more effectively than taking the apps off the app stores. They just dare not to say that out, because of the powerful constitution set up by the founders.

America doesn't want us knowing the shitshow they've made us out to be to the rest of the world. They want WW3 to assert a dominance they're too naive to realize we don't have anymore. Sorry not sorry but compared to China or Russia or Evan Japan us Americans are stupid. China owns our education if the Chinese didn't pay for our schooling most of us wouldn't have had that luxury. America is a joke anymore, we shouldn't be voting for "the lesser of two evils" like we have since before Bush Jr was in office.

In the worst case scenario with a China/USA conflict, the amount of people flocking to RedNote could turn the conflict on its head

Sadly, while I love RedNote, it won’t allow any of these posts. No politics. No Gaza. No mention of genocide. It’s a fun/silly lifestyle app, and the terms & conditions explicitly state “no politics”. It might SEEM like a fun app (probably because it is) and it might SEEM similar to TikTok, but it is FAR more locked down.

We’re all reddit users here, we all know how much China censors its internet.

All those reasons our Government banned TikTok — we won’t be able to do them on RedNote, either. But the culture exchange is a blast!!

We spent all this time believing that Chinese people were living in North Korea conditions and have no freedom. The main freedom they lack is being able to talk about their leaders. However, in so many other ways they have more freedom and social resources than we do and everything's way cheaper. I'd take the trade off.

They have cities that look like something out of Blade Runner, the most amazing food, and the people have been very welcoming and kind to "TikTok refugees" for the most part. Many of us in America are fucking pissed at having been so thoroughly misled and we look at how fucked our system is in comparison.

Of course, we can't have international connecting and sharing and cameraderie. That just wouldn't do.

I think in general, the west has destroyed their image. Like many around the world have known, especially with what they did in Vietnam, Laos, Algeria, Korea, India, Liberia, El Salvador, and other places. Many know, but now even more people do including those living in the west. They need israel so that they can do things to West Asia, what they are doing in Palestine now has their image like this. Just in general their image is going.

I am angry not because of China collecting data or any security concerns, I am angry purely because of Mark Zuckerberg being such a disgusting person, that he lobbied the whole thing and wants everyone to go on Meta. Such a disgrace to American business. He is a disgrace.

Your government makes you feel thirsty, so you run into the desert to find water.

yeah I agree. it’s also been exposed that a lot of congress members have stock in meta. i feel like if the stock was mass shorted they would lose their incentive. i’m honestly hoping that happens.

I never thought it was about national security. If it was actually about national security then they would've banned Wechat, Xhs, and other Chinese owned apps *years* ago. This was again, never about national security. This was a façade of lies to cover up their true meaning. To hold down the public, to lie to us, etc. etc.