TikTok is reportedly planning a total shutdown of the Chinese-owned video-sharing app when the law requiring a ban or sale of the app takes effect on Sunday.
The roughly 170 million US users who try to access the app will be greeted with a pop-up message directing them to a website with details about the ban, according to the Information.
Users will also be given the option of downloading their data from the app, sources familiar with the plan told the outlet.
Good we should be more invested in better apps like redNOTE.
RedNote is just another corporate social media platform, so I won’t gush over it. But it is exposing Burgerstanis to regular people in China, which is a positive. I have no idea how the RedNote’s owners are going to respond to this. For instance, how are they going to monetize an American audience? Or at least recoup the costs? I doubt they had a plan for this, because I don’t think anyone could have predicted it.
The US government will likely censor this app as well. I think this falls under the same law that TikTok does.
It’s like trying to stop piracy. No matter how many app the government try to ban, new ones will appear
There does come a point where the inconvenience slowly moves the masses to other platforms. It’s not that difficult to access the full internet in China with any data-only esim being unrestricted by default and many VPNs working just fine. But it’s just difficult enough to do this that the masses don’t. Piracy functions the same way, if piracy were truly broad in scale then it would be taken much more seriously.
I wouldn’t be surprised if China locked out US users before the US even banned it. Chinese are already telling US users that they are saying things that DEFINITELY should not be said on the app.
Here’s a little Nostradamus… “I had the most best chat with Xi. He told me that Americans are superior to the Chinese, so they don’t want to see us on RedNote anymore. But don’t worry, I told you I would save Tiktok… introducing Trump Talk”
A torrent of Western chauvinist trolls does seem inevitable, if my experience as an Lemmy mod is any indication.
I think it’s even better to not use these kind of ‘social media’ apps.