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What I love is that apparently tons of Americans are signing up for a different Chinese social video app whose name is being translated as “Red Note”. I would l
by adriand 2y ago
What I love is that apparently tons of Americans are signing up for a different Chinese social video app whose name is being translated as “Red Note”. I would love if the end result of this was another several years of congressional drama about a different Chinese app.
- tmnvdb 2y agoWhy would you love that?
- arresin 2y agoHe’s using sarcasm
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- ethagnawl 2y agoIt would likely lay bare just how much any of the TikTok detractors actually cared about privacy/security concerns versus cultural ones.
- theoreticalmal 2y agoSometimes it’s fun to watch chaos unfold. It’s subjectively entertaining
- adriand 2y agoSomeone wrote, "Because it's punk rock" and I think that sums it up. It's an act of rebellion.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> if the end result of this was another several years of congressional drama about a different Chinese app No need. If it’s Chinese and has more than 100mm (EDIT: 1mm) users, Commerce can designate it a foreign-adversary controlled application and designate it for app-store delisting.
- abeppu 2y agoI think the threshold is way lower than that? The "Covered Company" definition mentions 1 million monthly active users for at least 2 of the 3 months preceding some determination. Also, I wonder who is the foreign-based "reviews" site that lobbied for the exclusion clause immediately following that? https://www.congress.gov/118/plaws/publ50/PLAW-118publ50.pdf https://www.congress.gov/118/plaws/publ50/PLAW-118publ50.pdf
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoHmm, § 2(g)(2)(b) been there since the start [1]. [1] https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/hr7521/BILLS-118hr7521ih.pdf https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/hr7521/BILLS-118hr7521ih....
- wat10000 2y agoIt’s even better than that. “Red Note” is the softened version. A more direct translation is “Little Red Book.”
- rs999gti 2y ago> “Little Red Book.” As in Mao's Little Red Book - https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34932800 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34932800
- ghostpepper 2y agoCan't confirm as I don't speak Chinese but Sharp China podcast says this is a mistranslation, and that the word for Mao's little red book is not the same as the Chinese name for Rednote
- wat10000 2y agoIf Wikipedia is to be believed, the Chinese nickname is “Treasured Red Book.” It’s just a coincidence that the English nickname happens to match the literal translation of this app’s name. Still hilarious.
- arresin 2y agoIt’s a clone being inorganically pushed to fill vacuum.
- dyauspitr 2y agoWhy do you love this?
- petsfed 2y agoBecause if this sequence of events (one allegedly Chinese-government controlled social media app is banned over apparent ties to the government, so all of its American users immediately switch to another Chinese app whose name can be translated as "Little Red Book") happened in a movie, a reasonable person would balk at how ludicrous and on-the-nose the whole thing was. It feels like a joke, and if you can somehow create enough space to actually see the humor in it, its kind of funny.
- runjake 2y agoI'm pretty sure it would be more a quick "Add this app to the TikTok court order".
- Rebelgecko 2y agoWhat's interesting is that RedNote doesn't have the same level of segregation as TikTok, so the US and China users are having a lot of interesting interactions. Assum the app doesn't get banned, it'll be interesting to see if the experiences get more silo'd
- alickz 2y agoI think it would be a good thing if average Americans and Chinese interacted more Maybe then we will see we are all more alike than we are different
- DoodahMan 2y agoseems like a dangerous idea if you're Uncle Sam or the CCP. dogs and cats may realize they in fact enjoy living together. one can hope though, eh?
- filoleg 2y agoI am afraid this might not last long. There is no official announcement yet for now, to be clear, but still[0]. 0. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/rednote-may-wall-off-tiktok-refugees-to-prevent-us-influence-on-chinese-users/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/rednote-may-wall...
- nneonneo 2y agoThe most literal translation of 小红书 is “Little Red Book”, which recalls the famous book of quotes from Mao Zedong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotations_from_Chairman_Mao_Tse-tung https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotations_from_Chairman_Mao_T...
- mullingitover 2y agoExcept that’s not what Mao’s book was/is called in China, it’s a label the US applied to it. In China it’s better known as 红宝书 (Hóng Bǎo Shū) “The Red Treasure Book” or simply “The Red Book”.
- switchbak 2y agoHonest question: why would an American consciously seek out multiple Chinese apps on purpose?
- yamazakiwi 2y agoTo be punk rock. The main reason I see thrown around is most younger users don't care if China has their user data and understand that the government is banning it for their own selfish reasons (money).
- azinman2 2y agoYou state that the US gov is banning it for money as if that’s a fact. I’d love to see the evidence for that. The irony is that China bans essentially all US social media. I guess these users don’t care a ton their selfish bans?
- johnny22 2y agoI read it as that's how they think of it. It doesn't actually matter if it's true or not.
- hobo_in_library 2y agoOP didn't say "for money". As per Mitt Romney, it was banned because TikTok contained too much anti-Israel content (remember, the push for the ban became really strong very soon after Oct 7 when the genocide began) Source: https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1787288209963290753 https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1787288209963290753
- slt2021 2y agoFreedom. Americans want freedom of speech without interference from the US government. TikTok was banned because of sharing anti-zionist videos documenting the genocide of Palestinians.
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- corimaith 2y agoIsn't Red Note planning to segregate based on IP to prevent US Influence from those TikTok refugees? The original CN users aren't exactly happy with the newcomers either, and the TikTok refugees themselves are getting quite a culture shock with regards to cultural attitudes to LGBQT or even basic "leftist" activism like strikes and collective bargaining Anyways, those alternatives are not so algorithmically driven, and especially if it's forcing actual user interaction and discussion that certainly would be good for Americans to understand what the mainland Chinese are really thinking and saying domestically. Because if you go to the actual main discussion forums like Weibo, oh boy it's not going to be pretty.