3mo ago

It's so funny to see XiaoHongShu discover how much westerners have been propagandised

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I have already heard academia libs call rednote users “white leftist” who show how much a threat china really is because the app is so “han centric” and that causes cultural genocide of chinese minorities or something oh and american users are so naive because now evul ccpp orewillian chynah can steal all the data.
They are really really quaking in their boots. The ideological engineers of the empire are working overtime.
- Even trying to see things from a lib perspective the data harvesting argument makes no sense to me. If you're worried about your data ending up in the hands of someone who could use it against you, a social media app from a somewhat hostile foreign country is way safer than local social media that sells all it's data to the state that actually has power over you.
  
  Yeah I hear this argument from libs all the time: "it's a natsec nightmare how an enemy government has planted sensors all over the inside of people's homes"
  But why? Why does it matter at all that China can know what American people are doing in their homes, what they're interested in, etc? Is it for military reasons? Are you worried that Chinese robots are gonna land and have a floor plan of every tiktok user's house? Or are you worried because knowing a lot about American people means they can market their products better? Like seriously how does it affect natsec, I can only really imagine ways in which it affects commerce and industry but not natsec. And as far as commerce goes, who cares?
  
  I think some are worried about some silly zoomer later becoming a senator and now the government has all this dirt on them from harvesting their private messages and other info to be able to blackmail them into doing what China wants.
  Which is also very far fetched and ridiculous.
  
  Not to mention, do they think domestic entities won't do the same lmao?
  Lockheed Martin will just quietly send part of the blackmail dossier to you when you vote against defense spending
  
  don't be a nonce, don't cheat on your spouse, don't beat up service workers. No scandal, no kompromat.
  
  Yeah ngl i don’t think “People might have internet history of politicians” is really a downside here, I want that shit publicized as a requirement for accepting the job
- Also the app isn't Han centric at all - I'm getting tons of Mongol content on the default feed
  
  Type "Uyghur" into the search, I dare you. The results are truly horrifying. People sharing fashion, food, and music from their culture. Don't they know they're being enslaved? That they're living in The Truman Show?
  
  China has constructed a massive network of "autonomous zones" - our reporting leads us to believe these zones compel people to live in their traditional ways and exert authority over their ancestral lands in order to fool westerners into thinking they have rights and aren't being genocided.
  
  I know, the libs are just desperate because some white people like chinese user dressing up in historical 9th century tang dynasty fashion

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