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.
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    11 hours ago

    It’s actually worse because the American spyware apps give our data to the government to prosecute us for abortions etc.

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      8 hours ago

      That’s always been my point. China can do less with my data than the UK or America.