Americans are joining the Chinese social media app en masse to protest an imminent TikTok ban.

  • American users have flocked to Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu in defiance of security warnings.
  • Chinese and American users have engaged in surprisingly friendly conversations about each other’s lives.
  • The influx of American users could burden Xiaohongshu’s censorship mechanism, experts say.
  • frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe
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    7 hours ago

    Why would I need to, these things have been known for decades?

    Don’t get me wrong, capitalists (ex apple) love to collude, but it doesn’t make china some magical perfect land.

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      7 hours ago

      Yes, the intelligence orgs have been spreading lies for decades.

      China isn’t perfect, but most of the scandal news we hear about it is fabricated by our government. Even our own government has now admitted they made up the Uyghur genocide claims.

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            2 hours ago

            First, thanks for actually following up!

            About the actual statement:

            The U.S. State Department’s Office of the Legal Advisor concluded earlier this year that China’s mass imprisonment and forced labor of ethnic Uighurs in Xinjiang amounts to crimes against humanity—but there was insufficient evidence to prove genocide

            I believe that “technically, we cannot prove it’s genocide, just crimes against humanity” is still a pretty clear and bold statement.

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              They’re putting their spin on it. In reality, the State Dept has been trying to radicalize and train the Uyghurs as an extremist front to destabilize the region. China has been working to detain, de-radicalize, and rehabilitate the extremists.

              Even in their own spin, the State Dept does not imply any loss of life or mass casualties.