[ur-whale]

I naively assumed the amount of spying going on on the platform was common knowledge, my bad.

And sure, no reason not to use it, as long as you're 100% certain you're never going to utter anything on the platform that isn't 100% aligned with the CCP party line.

[verst]

I'm well aware, but chatting with friends about daily life hardly is of interest to any spies

[ur-whale]

You're vastly underestimating what modern AI can guess about you given enough "chatting with friends" data volume.

And we're not talking about spies here, we're talking about a centralized, tyrannical government building a detailed personality profile of you to make sure you are and will remain a well behaved sheep.

Google "chinese social score" if you want to know more.

[threatofrain]

There should be local models which can alert a citizen if they’re about to say anything remotely government related.