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So far, Americans using RedNote have said they don’t care if China has access to their data. Viral videos on TikTok in recent days have shown Americans jokingly saying they will miss their personal “Chinese spy,” while others say they are purposefully giving RedNote access to their data in a show of protest against the wishes of the U.S. government.
“This also highlights the fact that people are thirsty for platforms that aren’t controlled by the same few oligarchs,” Quintin said. “People will happily jump to another platform even if it presents new, unknown risks.”
There was a time when the US was as colonialist as China, but in the 20th century it let the Philippines go, and passed on turning Germany and Japan into colonies, and let the Panama Canal go back to Panama. There’s an analogy to Hong Kong in there somewhere, or with North Korea which remains a totalitarian puppet of China to this day.
The US is far from perfect, but they’re not China. Not even close.
Do Puerto Ricans get represented in US politics yet or do they just not count as a colony because we are in the wrong century?
I occasionally see job ads in the UK that require US citizenship.
…even if you consider Hong Kong, Tibet, and Taipei colonies instead of autonomous religions analogous to states, the US has literally more than a dozen territories. The US is the master of colonialism, to this day it still holds the most extra territorial colonies.