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Nancy Benedict's avatar

So please explain something to those of us (I can’t be the only one) who are struggling, in our non-tech savvy condition, to keep up. Briefly re-routing to Rednote has opened Pandora’s box?

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TriTorch's avatar

Good question. Tik-tok and RedNote are weapons of mass mental destruction aimed directly at the impressionable minds of children and teens. They are designed to burn the world to the ground by going after its foundation: the next generation.

So if you see these “app”s (app = 33 btw) as the nuclear mind bombs they are, just imagine what happens when you suddenly unleash one of these WMDs on a population - like China’s - who is wholly unready for it? The future gets rewritten in a big bad way.

Example: One of the images gato provided: “i think my taste in women has changed”. This was after 2 days of scrolling.

It’s devastating. The human mind is clay to the psychopaths pushing this.

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L  Young's avatar

Releasing American influencers on China seems unethical in a way almost like supplying the ingredients to cheap highly addictive drugs to the Mexican cartels and then releasing said product onto an unsuspecting populace.

Too bad it couldn’t be targeted onto the CCP and leave the innocents in their ignorant bliss.

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Nancy Benedict's avatar

This is what I was afraid of. My prediction: China will shut down RedNote. I will make sure all my children read this Stack. They already are banning TikTok with their kids who now have phones, but in the midst of all the other stuff they are dealing with, they are barely keeping up any better than I am.

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pyrrhus's avatar

Really cute girls who don't want to boss you around are the ultimate force of persuasion.....

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jabster's avatar

IT'S A TRAP!

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Or, Guns, Germs, and Steel--and Bytes?

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I am not your Other's avatar

RedNote was kind of a Pollyanna app for travel tips, fashion, makeup, etc. like early Instagram or Pinterest for young Chinese. Very innocent. Until the US TikTok users started moving there when the TikTok ban was threatened. Seemingly overnight, RedNote was inundated with wild, crazy, sexy, etc etc Americans.

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