I am afraid this might not last long. There is no official announcement yet for now, to be clear, but still[0].

0. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/rednote-may-wall...

I think it would be a good thing if average Americans and Chinese interacted more

Maybe then we will see we are all more alike than we are different

I think the threshold is way lower than that? The "Covered Company" definition mentions 1 million monthly active users for at least 2 of the 3 months preceding some determination.

Also, I wonder who is the foreign-based "reviews" site that lobbied for the exclusion clause immediately following that?

https://www.congress.gov/118/plaws/publ50/PLAW-118publ50.pdf

> “Little Red Book.”

As in Mao's Little Red Book - https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34932800

To be punk rock. The main reason I see thrown around is most younger users don't care if China has their user data and understand that the government is banning it for their own selfish reasons (money).

Because deep inside, most people are still children, desperate to declare their autonomy.

if China has US consumer's data they can do very little harm as they lack enforcement. So its not a big deal to use Chinese owned social media app.

US however, if it has data on US users, has all the means to cause harm to US users, starting from censorship and persecution.

UK and Germany for example are jailing people for social media posts

https://www.standingforfreedom.com/2024/08/think-before-you-...

Apparently currently they’re posting tons of 3d printed gun content. People are weird.

Except that’s not what Mao’s book was/is called in China, it’s a label the US applied to it. In China it’s better known as 红宝书 (Hóng Bǎo Shū) “The Red Treasure Book” or simply “The Red Book”.

It would likely lay bare just how much any of the TikTok detractors actually cared about privacy/security concerns versus cultural ones.

Sometimes it’s fun to watch chaos unfold. It’s subjectively entertaining

Someone wrote, "Because it's punk rock" and I think that sums it up. It's an act of rebellion.

He’s using sarcasm

Because if this sequence of events (one allegedly Chinese-government controlled social media app is banned over apparent ties to the government, so all of its American users immediately switch to another Chinese app whose name can be translated as "Little Red Book") happened in a movie, a reasonable person would balk at how ludicrous and on-the-nose the whole thing was.

It feels like a joke, and if you can somehow create enough space to actually see the humor in it, its kind of funny.