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by sub7 522 days ago
China didn't invent the transistor or the internet either, because they do stupid shit like clamping down arbitrarily instead of just telling the losers to try harder.

Artificially suppressing competition is the most anti-capitalist and anti-American thing I've ever seen, no matter how shitty this particular app may be.
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Teever 522 days ago
Under what circumstances would you consider it acceptable to ban apps from a geopolitical adversary?
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sub7 522 days ago
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don't like seeing apps delivered exclusively via stores that can implement these daft bans, ecosystem taxes etc.

also ignore people yapping about China being such a huge adversary when the 2 countries do close to a trillion USD yearly in trade, it's all lip service to get their competition killed unfairly so they don't have to innovate or an attempt to scare the govt/some LPs into funding their most often useless faux-nationalist bullshit without oversight.

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Teever 522 days ago
Would you consider it acceptable to ban these kinds of apps if we were in military conflict with these countries just as we were in conflict against Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan?

> it's all lip service to get their competition killed unfairly

I think that you'd have a point here if we were talking about a country that allowed their citizens unfettered access American social media apps but China does not do that.

If seems foolish to play by a set of rules that the other side does not. This isn't competition in a normal sense.

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sub7 520 days ago
no because if there was ever real armed conflict, the list of higher priority action items would make this app banning nonsense look exactly as silly as it actually is today
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DrBenCarson 522 days ago
Media companies can’t be owned by non-citizens either (see: Rupert Murdoch’s journey to become a US citizen)

All ByteDance has to do is sell for a generous valuation

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