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I'm holding off on seeing how the press react to this. If there's one "And that's a good thing!" you can guarantee that it's in the authoritarian pockets and not worth it (Not that I see the appeal of TikTok either).
"Red Note" is NOT the correct translation. It's actually called "Red Book," a clear reference to Mao's Little Red Book. They could not have picked a more hardcore Commie app! They need to just ban them ALL from the U.S. market, but nobody is talking about banning Chinese shopping apps like SHEIN, Temu, or CapCut, which collect ALL THE SAME user data.
So why not ban those apps? ... Because you can't politically organize on those apps. You can't "notice" things on those apps. This is about eliminating forums that allow us to escape (((Western))) censorship. It's not about "privacy." TikTok and Telegram never asked me for a credit card or my home address, unlike the shopping apps, so why not ban those first? Again, it's about controlling political narratives.
Not just Red Book. Explicitly Little Red Book.
小 Small
红 Red
书 Book
Indeed the direct translation is "Little Red Book" which is the name given to the one book which has outsold the Bible in the world written by Chairman Mao.
Chinese humour is good, but all humour is half truths.
What are you trying to say with that, pal? That's a typical CCP talking point: "China is the world leader in X," "China makes the most of X," but as well know, quantity does not imply quality. It's often quite the opposite, especially with China, its wares and its people.
It wouldn't be kia2 without m0r1arty making an inside joke that nobody outside his head can get. I severely doubt the Little Red Book outsold the Bible anyway, maybe on a "bestseller list" but not total sales
I'm saying (Not trying to) that enforced sales upon the largest population of the planet at the time of its release made this particular book the number one 'bestseller' in the world so far.
The same way that John Lennon saying that The Beatles were more popular than Jesus was empirically correct too even though the ratio to impact margins were far off.
If facts aren't your forte then perhaps ambling into conversations requiring them shouldn't be your thing.
I happen to like China. I also happen to like the US. I think they are good for each other.
That said, a Biden in China or a Trudeau in the US would destroy that fragile relationship.
Very communist.
I've no idea who was keeping the books with the numbers but mass mind enslavement is very communist and not at all something that I support.
But I'm still curious as to how and why TikTok is popular and so I clearly know very little about people.