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.
  • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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    I love that capitalists attacking communists always end up accidentally attacking capitalism. Classic.

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      China is a capitalist country with aspects of socialism. it’s not really communist anymore.

      No one here is shitting on communists, were shitting on you for a thinking the Chinese are any different than us.

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      China is a capitalist shithole but for some reason its biggest defenders are always self proclaimed western communists.

      edit: we also have a few militant communists groups that like to blow up chinese nationals working for their govt every now and then.

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        What exactly do you think “capitalist” means? Because it sounds like you think any participation in markets is capitalism.

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          I think dengist policy introduced a capital holding class to China and that the workers don’t have democratic control of the workplace.

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            Fair nuance there, but they seem to be taking reform seriously. But we’ll see if that keeps up.

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      What do you think “capitalist” means? It sounds like you think it’s just market participation.