Freedom means freedom from censorship. I can’t think of an equivalent event that’s happened in my lifetime in the US. "India did it too" isn’t exactly a strong rallying cry.
That said, we’ll live. Hopefully our blind trust that there were security concerns ends up being worth something.
You're in a bubble if you think there is a massive migration happening to an unlocalized app .
It was a pleasant surprise. That said, I’m not too interested in endless house tours, so I’m going to see what kind of content there is when things settle down. That’s still a migration though, at least for me.
"Sure, there are the people calling themselves “TikTok refugees” and joining Xiaohongshu, a Chinese social media app, as a half-joking protest of the U.S. government’s decision to ban TikTok on national security grounds. (The joke part is: OK, Congress, you want to stop us from using a sketchy Chinese social media app? We’ll download an even sketchier Chinese social media app and use that instead.)"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/technology/what-if-no-one...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/arts/tiktok-red-note-chin...
Is there a really strong market demand for whatever social platform as long as it's owned by a Chinese company?