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[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 1 points 49 seconds ago

That’s fair. Our own platforms are flooded with government astroturfers. They wouldn’t want those leaking in.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 hour ago
[–] archomrade@midwest.social 17 points 1 hour ago

There has been no official announcement that such a change is coming, but Reddit commenters speculated that possibly the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was requiring a change to stop American TikTokers from using the app to influence Chinese citizens.

Ah, that trustworthy and unbiased group of China experts that are Redditors

Two sentences before this they were explaining quite clearly why chinese users might actually be bothered by the flood of american users and why they might want the ability to filter by IP region, but because some redditors speculated that the SeeSeePee doesn't want the Americans to spread their freedom-loving germs to their country then that must be why they'd do it, if that rumor were to be proven true

[–] FolknForage@lemm.ee 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

Wait - so this is the CCP directly censoring a whole worldview from its citizens.

But I was told on several lemmy threads that the CCP lets their users consume any content, and all the censorship is American propaganda to make the great leader look bad.

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 points 30 minutes ago

This is some redditors speculating being turned into a news article...

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 minutes ago (1 children)

Got any evidence for this censorship claim? I’ll even accept dubious screenshots.

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 0 points 5 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 minute ago

The source of this article is “Some Reddit users have speculated” which is like the polar opposite of evidence soooooo try again.

There has been no official announcement that such a change is coming, but Reddit commenters speculated that possibly the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was requiring a change to stop American TikTokers from using the app to influence Chinese citizens.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 points 57 minutes ago

Nobody should be surprised by this.

[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The irony in this is fucking delightful. No one wants Americans using this kind of brain rot social media. Maybe that's a sign....

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

or maybe they want to maintain control of the oppressed citizens of China?

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 22 points 5 hours ago

Every government is scared of these dumb kids lol

[–] rasakaf679@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 hour ago
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