Summary
Many Americans are migrating to RedNote, a Chinese-owned app based in China, raising significant privacy and security concerns.
Experts warn that RedNote, based in China, is subject to Chinese laws, including the Personal Information Protection Law and Data Security Law, which grant the government rights to request data and cooperation with intelligence operations.
Enforcement of these laws is often opaque. Analysts highlight risks of data collection, algorithm manipulation, and censorship on RedNote.
Critics argue the U.S. lacks comprehensive privacy laws, driving users to platforms like RedNote that may pose even greater risks than TikTok.
Maybe this is an American-centric thing, but then the rest of the world does see the US as a strange place with strange ideas
The funny thing though, is that China is an even bigger bubble with thicker walls.
TikTok is a Chinese owned product, it’s developed by people who live in China, and the Chinese government has a direct influence on the content and how it’s presented to users. This isn’t hearsay or an opinion. It’s a fact.
Another fact, that people seem to always gloss over or ignore, is that TikTok isn’t even allowed in the country that develops it. They have their own internal version called Douyin, which is the same as TikTok, and people outside of China aren’t allowed to use it.
If China had one platform for everyone, this discussion wouldn’t even be happening.
It’s actually not a fact. Have you bothered to look up the ownership?
Are you really trying to contend that ByteDance, the owners/developers of TikTok, are not a Chinese based company?
You’re moving the goalposts. Claim was “Chinese owned”. It is not, it’s a privately held company - here’s a list of investors making up about 20% of the institutional investor ownership:
Then the founders and the employees each hold about 20% ownership.
“Chinese owned” isn’t the same as “CCP Owned”.