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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 06:24:32 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

EFF's Cooper Quintin spoke with NBC News about what Rednote users should consider, and how "people who are thirsty for platforms that aren’t controlled by the same few oligarchs will happily jump to another platform even if it presents new, unknown risks.” Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/chinese-app-rednote-pose-greater-security-risks-tiktok-rcna187619
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1. Quintin said the TikTok ban and the user migration to RedNote has parallels to age-verification restrictions in certain U.S. states that have led to the largest pornography website, Pornhub, being banned. In both cases, Quintin said that users jump to less- moderated platforms that tend to be even less safe. “It is no surprise that users who cannot participate on the banned platform will have their privacy violated again since they won’t be protected when they flock to other platforms,” he said. “This outcome was foreseeable and could have been avoided by addressing privacy harms at the source and enacting strong consumer-protection laws, rather than a knee-jerk reaction banning the latest perceived threat.”
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2. Chinese TikTok alternative RedNote could pose greater security risks, experts say
  
  from NBCNews
  
  RedNote is based in China, which makes the app vulnerable to potential data and censorship requests.
- Bandersnatch (bandersnatch@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 06:57:50 JST Bandersnatch
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  @eff
  LOL. Absolutely none of this was about user privacy, but you just keep on tilting at those windmills & slaying those strawmen.
  
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