[mrkramer]

I know that US has liberal constitution and liberal market economy but putting aside national security risks; why would US let ByteDance reap billions of dollars in profit from US market when Google and Facebook are not allowed to participate in Chinese market and reap profits as well? You could argue that Facebook and Google could abide by Chinese censorship laws and then what? Strip down like 50% from overall content because it is not in line with CCP's ideology?!

[maxglute]

Meta still gets billions (10% of global) from PRC based advertisers. IIRC sure Google in billions as well. And have been this entire time.

>strip down like 50% from overall content because it is not in line with CCP's ideology?

Of course, play by same rules/guidelines as domestic players. Will also have advantage in offering filtered content from abroad vs domestic players, also will gain a shitload of unique content from PRC net. Many of interesting content producers in PRC if Google leverages AI to transcribe, translate, dub. Plus handover dissident information, but thats table stakes. And eventually get pressured to block antiPRC rags like FLG media globally or be put on sanction/unreliable entity list.

[roncesvalles]

US tech companies jump through a lot of hoops to play in Europe.

[linearrust]

> why would US let ByteDance reap billions of dollars in profit from US market when Google and Facebook are not allowed to participate in Chinese market and reap profits as well?

Google and facebook are allowed to participate in the chinese market. If they follow chinese rules. One of them being storing chinese data in china which google and facebook refused to do.

Why are microsoft, apple and other tech companies allowed to do busy in china? Because they follow chinese laws.

> Strip down like 50% from overall content because it is not in line with CCP's ideology?!

As opposed to stripping content to line up with israeli ideology, european ideology or anyone else's ideology?

Other than hypocrisy, do you have a point?

[mrkramer]

You can shill for CCP as much as you want but when speaking of European or Israeli ideology, yes there are censorship laws but what censorship laws? For Nazi content, why you may ask? Because Nazi regime was mass murdering regime and on the other hand, in China, mass murder Mao is glorified as the father of the nation. That's the difference. Give Chinese people free speech as there is in US and then we can speak about fair competition.