sakurajima.moe is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A comfy, non-toxic, and inclusive Anime/Manga/Japanese Media fandom and Japanese Media/Culture Content Creators (Bloggers/Artists/Video Creators/Podcasters/etc.) Mastodon Server

Server stats:

305
active users

chikorita157
Public
Quiet public

@chikorita157 I think going after a specific company reeks, a lot. There’s no law they are enforcing here. Just anti-competitive lobbying.

Laws first, then enforcement.

That and TikTok isn’t overall better nor worse than any other commercial social media. They all have the same issues. The only special flavor is that it isn’t a U.S. company.

If it is a security risk they should ban everyone with anything secure from using it. Even privately. But I don’t trust any of the big ones any more. Ergo why we need privacy laws, and making it illegal to use any harvested info.

Obviously the connection to CCP is very serious for any Chinese citizens abroad, as well as anyone with family in China. So I very much sympathize with that and see the dangers in that.

But for a European living in the U.S. I’m more worried about US companies, organizations, political parties, agencies, etc having information about us. I remember Stasi, and this has the potential to be worse. CCP holding *my* info isn’t very useful to them. U.S. companies have already harvested all that after all.

Also the plain racism isn’t acceptable. Nor is this hostile stance towards China. Pushing them away and isolating us aren’t going to help. The goal can’t be to fight the CCP, but to help the Chinese citizens make them obsolete and turn them into history.

@yon @chikorita157@amausaan.tokyo Agreed. I think if they are concerned about privacy issues, misinformation, and the likes, the government should regulate these social media platforms. Of course, they don't want to do that as it would affect other Big Tech and it's convenient to target TikTok because it's Chinese, which makes it seem more xenophobic and feeds to it. That said, the CCP is very bad for reasons I stated and this ban just feeds into the Anti-Asian racism.

I think the effort to make the CCP obsolete and push the Chinese citizens to stage a revolution to fight for democracy, like what other Eastern Asian countries (besides North Korea) has.