I just don't see this in particular as a two tiered system. Chinese citizens don't use TikTok content is copied over from that platform by other people. Douyin connects with a bunch of the other social media systems created in China, it's exclusively in Chinese and is made for Chinese citizens. TikTok is usable, essentially anywhere else in the world. Douyin is usable in China specifically. You can use it outside of China you just cannot comment or post.

I don't know I'm just under no particularly obsessive illusions about China. Yeah they definitely censor their citizens in intrusive and oppressive ways and that's wrong and bad. So does nearly every single nation on earth. Why would my beef with China specifically, as opposed to American social media which spans the globe and is constantly flooded with western neoliberal propaganda?

Like it's just silly and frustrating the way so much fear and discussions is directed towards China specifically. Like to a wild extent like anything done by China anything Chinese must be nefarious in some way. Fear mongering around TikTok is just. Weird. The same reaction doesn't exist towards reels even though reels censors even more subjects than TikTok does.

And like that's what my initial comment was about right I saw someone say something I know wasn't true because I've used the app myself.

And you know me too, we've talked many times we're definitely not strangers haha. We've been on the same and on opposite sides of at least a dozen discussions on Lemmy before. You can have some small measure of faith that I'm not a tankie here to act like authoritarian oppression is good actually.