Comment by hiatus
4 days ago
This article seems to be talking about the great firewall of China as if it was some cultural barrier to Western consumers preventing them from accessing Chinese sites, instead of a technological barrier barring Chinese citizens from engaging with the internet at large. Am I missing something?
I think the argument is that American consumers have never before signed up in droves for a Chinese-owned site hosted in China and mostly used by domestic Chinese users, and that the content posted by the Americans is likely to change the culture on that platform, unless XHS decides to reject a shot at "owning" the short-video space.
yeah, the author is either being paid to spout propaganda or doesn't know how the internet doesn't flow into and out of china freely, never has, never will