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Why should India ban a Chinese social media company and not an US social media company, it's a matter of national security? This claim is just xenophobic nonsen
by learnstats2 6y ago
Why should India ban a Chinese social media company and not an US social media company, it's a matter of national security? This claim is just xenophobic nonsense.
- djrogers 6y agoOne is a private corporation in a relatively progressive and free country, the other is a company controlled by an authoritarian nation-state. There's clearly a difference...
- catalogia 6y agoGoogle is a public company, not that it should matter in this context.
- microcolonel 6y agoAFAIK “public company” is a misnomer shorthand for “publicly-traded company”, it has nothing to do with "public sector" or similar concepts. Publicly-traded companies are still private corporations.
- edgyquant 6y agoIt does mean there's a regulated level of transparency force on them
- cambalache 6y ago> One is a private corporation in a relatively progressive and free country, I think he is referring to Google.
- ajinkyapatil 6y agoBecause one attacked and killed Indian Soldiers, and has a active border dispute with India.
- pvelagal 6y agoChina bans every app ? Xenophobic nonsense ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_mainland_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...
- microcolonel 6y agoWikipedia notes: This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it There's nothing xenophobic about the claim that PRC blocks a huge portion of the internet. I operate several websites that are blocked by CCP in PRC, despite having no relation to any policy priority of the CCP or law/edict in PRC.