The US has very little reason to target Palestinians, and most of the violence from Palestinian groups have targeted Israelis.

The US has interest in having a foothold in the region. The foothold they’ve chosen is a settler colonial project that has reasons to exterminate the native population as settler projects often do.

The US is far more concerned about other groups in the region, like ISIS, the Taliban, and the Houthis.

These are pretty small concerns, the actual concerns in the region are the nation states that oppose US hegemony.

The main reason the US seems to care is because they successfully carried out an attack on our ally.

US aid to Israel did not start with October 7th.

The US has repeatedly told Israel to scale back their operations in Gaza and allow humanitarian aid in, yet they completely ignore it. There’s absolutely no way Israel is anywhere close to a “vassal state,” they do pretty much whatever they want.

Actions speak louder than words, and all of our actions seem to suggest they can do no wrong. So maybe consider that just because we say otherwise doesn’t actual mean we want their actions to scale back.

That doesn’t make the US responsible for Israeli actions though.

The US is arming, funding, and blocking accountability from the UN. How many times do we have to reload the gun before the shooting is our fault too?

Sorry I don’t really use it, what was it’s vision, and how did it stray?

Fair, I think hyperbolic headlines are just the reality of click-driven journalism :\

I feel like in it’s current form it’s more likely to lose lifetime fans than catch them. I would be genuinely surprised if nothing happened to make the experience on rednote worse, and from what I’ve heard it would be also a valid target of the existing law, so just as easy to shut down.

Also doesn’t loops currently just have a fire hose feed of all videos uploaded in chronological order? Seems like it’s lacking core features that would make it stick for folks.

My phone failed whenever I tried to buy something (just testing to see what it would do), and I haven’t seen anything that stood out as an obvious ad.

It seems entirely plausible to me that someone that uses tiktok a lot saw enough folks talking about it that they thought it would be an interesting story.

Further I feel like:

“I just wanted something that could replace TikTok, and also it was sort of an act of protest against our government,” the Texan said.

Xiaohongshu did not respond to Rest of World’s request for comment, including on the latest count of overseas users.

Although Xiaohongshu is widely used by overseas Chinese people, the platform has made limited efforts to attract a broader international user base. Even Xiaohongshu’s logo is designed with the Chinese characters of its name. It offers no in-app translation for user posts or comments, and only suggests Chinese-language keywords in its search bar.

But the sudden increase in American users likely poses new challenges for Xiaohongshu, as the platform tries to balance global business expansion with pressure to enforce China’s censorship laws.

are not really the sorts of claims that would exist in an astroturf campaign. I mean maaayybe they wanted it to appear more authentic, so they invited the writer to be more critical and portray the app in a revolutionary light that is pretty counter to it’s culture, but I think it’s far more likely to be genuine.

I think this is a very convenient position for the US. It fails to take into account the depth of connections between Israel and the US, and how much of the situation in Gaza can only happen because of the US.

Even if I grant that there is some genocide scaling factor because it’s done by a vassal state, I still would argue the devastation of Gaza is certainly more far extensive.

The US doesn’t have a direct part in Gaza

This argument is incredibly hallow to me.

Is your point here that China’s actions against Uyghurs is more recent and extensive than the US’s part in Gaza?

Is that needed? Doesn’t the ban just drop it from the app stores?

Not sure where I got it, but for android you have to install it from the apk. I can’t log in right now, so it might show up on the site when you sign up and get your invite.