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It’s more about controlling citizens ability to quickly communicate and share information. It was never about anything but.
Comment by MassiveDisaster00 at 15/01/2025 at 20:39 UTC
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No. Zuckerberg has been lobbying the Chinese government for *years* to enter their market (so he could get their users’ data), but it’s been a stone wall and it will literally never, ever happen. So he got mad and lobbied the USA to block TikTok, because if he can’t have their toys, they can’t have his. Because the government is pay-to-play, they went along with it.
The beauty of this Xiaohonshu migration protest is that The Powers That Be literally thought that the user base would just roll over and go back to meta products (or YouTube shorts), as it was bought and paid for. It’s like the modern day Boston Tea Party.