Sigh. Two things. 1. This will not force the government to capitulate on the Tik Tok situation. It does not have the hallmarks of an effective protest and the federal government will ban these apps too. If you don’t think so you should read the bill in question.
- Rednote and apps like it have the opposite in TOS and content moderation (meaning these new users will not be able to use these apps as free speech platforms because the Chinese government does not allow that on those apps). It’s very likely that any user trying to organize for LGBTQ or other marginalized groups will be banned pretty much right away for breaking the content policy of apps like rednote.
Maybe but governments are slow to react. There will be a couple of months of relative freedom. Then we’ll have to find new apps again.
I doubt that. They’re slow to legislate. Not to react when the law is already on the books. This is as simple as their OPSEC community flagging the apps (which they do already), and then adding it to a list of apps they likely already have of apps that violate the terms and sending that information to the relevant app platforms.
This is probably going to make the US government confident they made the right choice banning tiktok and start the next step which is banning more chinese platforms.
F-tier headline, whiny article
