The motives behind the actions of these groups are vastly different though. A corporation silencing anti-establishment speech is not equivalent to lemmy moderators abusing authority in their micro-feifdoms. Still frustrating of course but the reasons and effects are quite different

When they say tech censorship they mean people should be allowed to say bigoted shit

Once again rich people snort powders that would get me years in jail and instead of that they get articles written about it

how ai works

This series of videos by a mathmetician is a good resource for why this will not be an issue with current ai.

We just have to stop using the internet at this point

Tragic really

Newborn paranoid is actually me 💀

It really isn’t that good at catering to me tbh. I say it feels organic because I am connecting with people in a genuine fashion that feels abnormal for social media. That is likely due to it being very new and the large rapid influx of americans. If it knew me like tiktok did my experience would be very different but it is still good just inna different way. I understand that americans are very hesitant about using chinese software but I can’t grasp the source of uneasiness. Its just a social media. I like being able to interact with people so different from me.

As someone who is experiencing it as it happens, it feels like the most organic thing I’ve experienced on a social media site. I’m sure that a huge part of why I feel the way I do about it is because I’m being served the content I interact with and I mostly interact with english content. However, I see PLENTY of faces I recognize. I don’t think it’s outside the realm of possibility to say that many americans responded to the tiktok ban with spite and chose an actual chinese social media bc fuck em.

To be clear though, it isn’t organic. The American government gave it an impetus.

I just talk like that. Is it so hard to believe that there are plenty of Americans who would flock to a genuinely chinese owned social media out of spite or just bc it is funny? I haven’t even seen an ad on the site so I don’t think they are making enough money to astroturf nor can I find a reason why they’d want to.

Nah, I am on xiaohongshu. Its fucking crazy. Most of the mandarin speaking audience woke up to their app filled with english. There is a running joke on the site now about US citizens “colonizing” the app. It is silly and in good fun but I cannot stress enough how real the influx of users is. Some brits are even moving there because so many Americans they follow did. I have seen multiple chinese citizens have their account jump from a few hundred followers to 30k in an hour or two. I mean you can hop on and see for yourself, it is free. It has actually been really wholesome so far and I hope the vibes continue to be good.

I only meant to say that it is quite normal for private interprises to dabble in military application

Aint we got tea companies that make war machines here?

I think the biggest part was selling people fake clout for a nearly 100% profit margin. They were going to sell us virtual clothes and status in mass en masse for our very real money. Not that this doesn’t already happen in gaming but it would have been expanded greatly

You misunderstand, I do not believe in intellectual property and I think copyright law shouldn’t exist. I do not believe in private ownership of property (note that I am not referring to personal property, private property is for making profit). I understand that copyright law is a necessity in capitalist society but I am not gonna be mad at China for “bullying” the capitalists I already hate. Our owning class is just mad about having actual competition for once in a few decades. These aren’t schoolboys who had their paper stolen by a bully, they are the richest people in the world doing everything in their power to make sure it stays that way.

There was hype?

I dont believe in IP nor value it in any way

I have no information on China’s use of slave labor but I can tell you that America allows business to “hire” their predominately BIPOC/immigrant prisoners for significantly lower than minimum wage. Considering these prisons can be and often are private you have enterprises buying and selling people and their labor for profit. Is this not slavery on a mass scale? Does America not purposefully maintain a disproportionately large prison population per capita and do everything it can to make sure it stays that way? Have you ever wondered why this country’s solution to its problems is always more cops and more guns?

How can we even criticize another country for their use of forced labor when we have done nothing to address our own. How can you be certain China is even doing that and it isn’t just deflection by US capitalist to distract us from much more pressing domestic issues. How can you trust a capitalist and the media conglomerates they all own to critique a socialist society in good faith?

Lmao China is not the anticompetitive one. Remind me who has done everything in their power to prevent China from acquiring domestic chip manufacturing on par with US financed Taiwan? Who is placing tariffs on all Chinese products and banning their EV’s and solar panels for being too effective for their price?

I wasn’t suggesting he did this out of malice I was suggesting he did this with zero regard for how it might be viewed by American natives

Edit: did not see the /s but my point stands.