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I remember it constantly being beaten in my head as a kid, and at school, them telling me "Anything you say on the Internet can be tracked to you. Potential future employers might see photos of you in a party before a job offer, and then revoke your offer, you might get fired for one small complaint about your employer, colleges might rescind your acceptance for it, and your friends and family will disown you!" Given that they put that whole panopticon on us, and how one small post can ruin our career, our education, and our relationships (even if it WAS a bit exaggerated), "Some foreign government in some country full of people you never have met and likely never will meet might have your data and do... something(?) with it" doesn't really hold a whole lot of weight.

They also generally are saying “well what is China going to do with it anyway? I don’t care”

Legitimately what is China going to do with it? Beyond just selling it like every other tech company.

I highly doubt the PRC cares enough to keep track of random US citizens, but the US government definitely does. My data is safer in Chinese hands than American.

I particularly love the "social credit score" bit.

So China built a panopticon to try to improve civility? Anerica built a panopticon to precision-price debt and insurance. Which is the better use of the resources and social compromises?

Right if given the choice between the Chinese or the US govt having my data, I will take China, thanks. The US gov will probably use it to imprison me for thought crimes. The Chinese gov will just use it to market more treats to me on AliExpress.

And I like Chinese treats, what can I say?

mr Jinping, tear down this... you know... the thing

this was a very funny take on that but also why we need to encourage more interaction between Chinese and American Netizens

Don't be too hard on yourself! Learning a language is very difficult. When I mentioned to my Chinese friends that I was trying to learn, they all universally told me to not get discouraged because it's very different to what I'm used to. They experienced the same thing in reverse, basically.

You can manage your algorithm far more easily than TikTok or YouTube. You can actually add specific topics of interest to your content preferences and use sliders to tell the algorithm how heavily you want them weighted into your personalized theme.

All of this is located under “content preferences” though it isn’t yet available in English UI.

I'll just go to ml or the grad and continue to make inane comments here, Donald Trump can't stop me from posting

Eh, looking into it the Mao book was "红宝书" but the app is "小红书" (disclaimer I speak zero Mandarin)

Either way reactionary yank news WILL make the connection and it will be hilarious to watch

I missed that! I stand corrected, thank you.