Americans are joining the Chinese social media app en masse to protest an imminent TikTok ban.

  • American users have flocked to Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu in defiance of security warnings.
  • Chinese and American users have engaged in surprisingly friendly conversations about each other’s lives.
  • The influx of American users could burden Xiaohongshu’s censorship mechanism, experts say.
  • frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe
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    1 day ago

    So having a coworker break into your child’s account is inattentive parenting?

    Tell me you don’t have kids.

    No really, please confirm.

    I don’t want to see “kids in cages” on the news again.

    • sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      22 hours ago

      I have kids. I don’t see how that’s relevant here.

      Children shouldn’t have social media accounts in my opinion. Nothing to attack or break into if it doesn’t exist.

      A coworker shouldn’t know enough or otherwise have enough access to your child such that they can break into their accounts.

      Failing all that, parents need to have frank discussions about the potential dangers of internet fans turning into real life people, and some of the more severe potential consequences.

      Even without those three layers of failure, your kids need to know about basic online account security, like using unique strong passwords and two factor authentication.

      That all being said- I don’t know the people or the situation. But from your short account of things that’s what I see as wrong with the situation.

      In general, the social networks of today are optimized for extracting value and attention from adult brains; an incomplete adolescent brain stands no chance.

      Kids can still socialize electronically just fine in group chats with the advent of RCS implementation on both major phone platforms.

      Not sure what kids in cages have to do with anything or why they were mentioned.

      • VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works
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        12 hours ago

        Kids in cages is mentioned because penetrating your kids’ social media account is a break of trust and privacy, which is a very bad form of parenting, a good parent would have trust relationship and could ask the child to show the weird behavior on their phone