American TikTok users are turning to RedNote. Dr. Conor McKeown, Lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Stirling, explained how this trend reflects a growing awareness of the global nature of internet access and the political implications of online activity.
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00:00It's a real problem with the way the West views the Internet and their use of the Internet now
00:07Everywhere you go in the West there are signs for Alipay
00:10And we have to understand that the the big companies
00:14ByteDance Tencent in China have had a huge role to play in
00:19What we as Westerners would consider to be our online infrastructure for a very long time
00:25And I think what is really good about this is that it signals kind of an attitudinal shift in users
00:32That possibly we're going to start waking up to just how
00:36International our online access is and just how political our online presence is