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.
  • viking@infosec.pub
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    4 hours ago

    Party officials made their fortune first and were then forced to join the party, the party doesn’t make their fortune. They don’t care about people, unless they get either rich or influential, and then uses their red book to reel them in.

    China is the most capitalist country on the planet. The only thing they openly worship is money.

    Please spend some time there and we talk afterwards, if you stick to your opinion.

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      37 minutes ago

      China is the most capitalist country on the planet. The only thing they openly worship is money.

      I disagree. What matters is power, and money does grant a lot of it, but in China especially this isn’t as direct as it is in the US for example because of party politics.

      Party officials made their fortune first and were then forced to join the party, the party doesn’t make their fortune.

      That’s a very broad assumption, and in some cases is true, some it is not. China has over 1 000 billionaires, over 100 of them are in the parliament, so it’s a bit of a chicken and egg thing, they go hand in hand because of the power thing.

      Please spend some time there and we talk afterwards, if you stick to your opinion.

      Yeah walking the streets of Beijing will give me ample opportunity to meet & greet Chinese billionaires and CCCP top brass.