Taiwan's opposition leader decried as censorship on friday a government plan to suspend access for a year to chinese social media platform rednote, while the island's presidential office backed. Xiaohongshu, or rednote, has grown rapidly among young people in taiwan, attracting 3 million users on the island of 23. Taiwan ’s ban on mainland chinese social media app rednote has sparked fierce pushback on the island, making the platform a top download as users rush to access it through workarounds.
Employing an expression from china about use of virtual private networks (vpns) to skirt the country’s pervasive online censorship, ms cheng, whose party favours close ties with beijing, said. Taiwan's interior ministry pointed to over 1,700 fraud cases linked to rednote since 2024, emphasizing concerns about the safety of user data Taiwan bans rednote, the popular chinese social media platform, citing serious security risks and involvement in fraud cases
