Tiktok? Xiaohongshu?

So, here we are, waiting for the US Tiktok ban to either take place or not, apparently with droves of US users abandoning ship and running to what has become known as Red Note - actually Little Red Book / Xiaohongshu.

It is really rather interesting to see just how many people simply click away the terms given they are in Chinese. One person reported by the BBC was worried about accepting the terms unseen but did so anyway (sorry, can't find the article now - will edit later!).

Update: And there we are. The US Supreme Court has upheld the ban.

I do like this from the judgement regarding the data collection practices of Tiktok: "the House Report focuses overwhelmingly on the Government’s data collection concerns" (1). Remember Snowden? Pot kettle black.

(Note there is a lot more reading in the judgement that my ramblings here... it deserves proper analysis and I'm sure others will do so)

(1) https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-656_ca7d.pdf at p.18