Posted on 01/17/2025 3:26:47 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Chinese social media app RedNote has become a leading alternative for TikTok users concerned about the latter app’s ban set to take effect on Jan. 19, though, according to multiple outlets, RedNote could potentially face its own ban in the U.S. not long after.
The language in the law against TikTok, known as the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, prohibits all apps developed by foreign adversaries like China from being hosted in American app stores or by internet hosting services, spelling trouble for RedNote, which is headquartered in China and owned by Shanghai-based Xingyin Information Technology.
An unnamed U.S. official told CBS News that RedNote “appears to be the kind of app that the statute would apply to and could face the same restrictions as TikTok if it's not divested.”
Rep. Mich McCormick, R-Ga., told nonprofit news outlet NOTUS that lawmakers will target RedNote like they did with TikTok, saying, “We will legislate against them. I mean, we have to.”
Even if RedNote is not directly impacted by the TikTok ban, lawmakers are keen on curbing alternative apps; Rep. Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas, told NOTUS if TikTok alternative apps like RedNote are presented in a way to avoid the TikTok ban, “then obviously we’re going to have to look at creating more legislation to close that loophole.”
Anthony Michael Kreis, a constitutional law professor at Georgia State University, said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that if enough users flee to RedNote from TikTok, a certain amount of user traffic could trigger “another mandatory divesture,” meaning RedNote would also be required to sell to an American company or face a ban in the U.S.
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Derp dee derp. Let me see here, trade one chi-nuh app for a different chi-nuh app. Sounds good!
Tomorrow we can ban X. On Sunday, FR. Sounds good!
Yeah, those chi-nuh based platforms gathering inf.......oh.
And?
This needs to be stopped. The federal government should not be able to shut down foreign apps because it cuts us off from outside news and makes it easier for the federal government to shut down domestic apps for censorship purposes.
This is their strategy.
The Deep State lost control of the narrative.
Their ideal situation is to recreate what they had in 2020.
I agree that Chinese social media apps that spy on Americans should be banned.
Let’s leave the spying on Americans to good old US social media apps.
Cause ‘Murica!
If that was the bill, so be it.
However, that is not how the bill was written.
It was written as the "foreign adversary" bill.
So all they have to do is to scream "China" or "Russia" to get an app or a website banned.
So be it. This is a good lesson for Gen Z about the importance of advocating for their Constitutional rights.
Well, the folks that might need my info.....they already have it. Blackmail? Put it out there! 😂👍
It’s name is RedBOOK as in Mao’s little red book
We are downloading RedBOOK because the federal government can't tell us not to download an app because they don't have the backdoor to that one so they can't spy on us.
The total ridiculousness of it.
“China has a back door into both apps, so I’ll just download the other chinese spy app.”
“China has a back door into both apps, so I’ll just download the other chinese spy app.”
It's all about our government having control over us.
So give China control?
Data? If that's the case, Google, Meta and Apple have our data.
It's not like you have your data secured in a lockbox.
Thanks to our Leftist Communist anti-American bureaucracies and politicians, China already has EVERYTHING on every American that our government has.
TikTok is unnecessary for them to do that.
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