As US TikTok users move to RedNote, some are encountering Chinese-style censorship for the first time

People moving to Red Note aren't tankies and I've only heard people who describe what tankies say that tankies think China is a utopia that our governments are hiding from us. Kinda like Ben Shapiro describing what "the left" people say or do.

But what if there is no country that “allows” the speech you want to say? I want to call for the beheading of billionaires. I assume you don’t think I should be able to do that?

Probably 90% from my personal experience, I see loads of LGBTQ posts on RedNote. I wonder if they're being sensored or just waiting to go through the moderation queue.

I could see English posts maybe accumulating negative sentiment scores or even just a lack of known words causing a post to end up in a moderation queue.

For reference sentiment scores are basically a numeric way of scoring a post. Words like "hate" get -10 points neutral words get 1 point, and positive words like love and friendship get +10 points. At least when I was in college, this was a popular way for social media to determine if they should push your content or not.

This is all just leading up to the TikTok savior Trump winning over the youth crowd. If you force them to a platform that is much worse, they will forget how controlling the previous platform was and just be happy to have it.

This is an extremely weird take.

Then you have successfully fallen for china's propaganda.

Living and working conditions in China for most citizens are horrific, far beyond even the worst problems we see in the US.

Source: have pooped through a hole in the bottom of a moving train in China, and also visited a foxconn jail factory.

Not equal, China is better at censorship, tracking, and social pressure. They own the corporations and businesses. Go to other countries to kidnap their citizens that talked bad about them.

They suck and excel at different things. For example the US doesn't have high speed rail while China doesn't have military bases around the globe.

This is consistent. Anything that makes the racists, fascists, incels, tech bros, and billionaires uncomfortable is blocked.

You don't think that's exactly where the US is heading?

Yeah… I don’t think you’re the expert on China censorship you present yourself as.

I think you just regurgitated every piece of Cold War propaganda & every rumor about Chinese censorship that you’ve ever heard.

Non-Chinese devices can't access Douyin even with VPN, though.

This is the irony of it all. People are encountering Chinese censorship and realizing they prefer it over American censorship. XD

Out of curiosity, what leftist content do you see there that the “western” social media sites won’t allow on their platform?

I never used TikTok either! I'm not super into short video content. I had a macro photography account on IG about 5 years ago with 30k followers; I closed it after a lot of life obstacles but recently started shooting again. I'm not super into supporting Meta, so I thought I'd just see how RN is since it's both image and video content. I've honestly been incredibly surprised! There's a lot more user interaction in posts with so much of it being supportive. There are creators posting there whose content on other platforms would always attract negative and hateful comments - absolutely none of that so far on RN. The CN community has been very welcoming, patient, and helpful to new users. I definitely think it's worth checking out, even if it's just to get a glimpse of another culture!

It has been fascinating. Highly recommend

More effective to just start penpal relationships with Chinese folks you find on the internet. Just write some shit about the T-square and Pooh and if they keep responding you know it's secure.

I guarantee you won’t be interacting with regular “Chinese folk.” There are multiple networks. One for inside the firewall, and one for the people who have been chosen to deliver content to the western market. This is how it has always been.