Comment by krapp
3 days ago
>Any comments against the CCP will get deleted, including jokes. It's not a "free speech" platform.
I have bad news for you about "free speech" on any social media platform in the Western hemisphere...
3 days ago
>Any comments against the CCP will get deleted, including jokes. It's not a "free speech" platform.
I have bad news for you about "free speech" on any social media platform in the Western hemisphere...
exactly. this whole RedNote development frames the problem of United States social media data harvesting and surveillance. We've been institutionalized to believe that the Chinese are the most propagandized and censored people on the planet, meanwhile American "free speech" social media platforms regularly de-platform and de-monetized accounts regularly.
Comments critical of the US government do not typically get deleted from social media platforms based out of the US.
Deletion of comments critical of the US government, while not typical, do not comprise the only form of moderation on social media platforms based out of the US which many Americans consider to be censorship.
The point being that there are no "free speech" social media platforms, at least not on the open web, because true free speech on the internet would require allowing felonious content. The only difference between Chinese social media and American social media is where the arbitrary line between allowed and disallowed speech is drawn, and by whom (governments or corporations.)
I'm not arguing that this is a bad thing, personally I prefer private platforms having the option to choose what to moderate and what not, and for the government not to get involved more than necessary, but the premise that an American familiar with Facebook or Twitter or even HN (where you can be negged for just about anything) should be shocked by the lack of "free speech" on a Chinese app is absurd.
That's true, but softer things have happened, like the White House coercing platforms to delete content that questioned covid19 vaccine mandates. Until judges stopped it.
US govt is also trying to ban an entire social media platform. The law itself just mentions national security, but some lawmakers supported the ban explicitly because of the anti-Israel content on TikTok.