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>Isn't this just reciprocity? China banned a long list of media companies: FB, Google, YouTube, Twitter, Netflix, and every traditional media. Now the US is ban
by pgrote 6y ago
>Isn't this just reciprocity? China banned a long list of media companies: FB, Google, YouTube, Twitter, Netflix, and every traditional media. Now the US is banning two apps made in China.
This really could be the end of the thread. For years China has banned systems and applications from other parts of the world. The fact it has taken this long to respond with action is stupefying. China would like the benefits of an open internet, but don't want to participate.
The decision is 100% appropriate, but wasn't handled in the best manner.
- MentallyRetired 6y agoWe're not a communist dictatorship.
- TheJoeDonger 6y agoWell, that helped, thanks for stating the obvious.
- michaelscott 6y agoPolitical structure has nothing to do with the economics of the situation: one country has access two large markets, the other to only one. Which do you think will succeed in the long run economically?
- xxpor 6y agoNeither is China
- sidlls 6y agoIt's literally run by the CCP in an authoritarian regime (i.e. dictatorship).
- hungryhobo 6y agoif normal people can participate in government, is that still a dictatorship? there is a standard way in which chinese people can become a government official if they choose to.
- sidlls 6y agoTo answer your question: yes, and it has always been the case. Participation in government isn’t the same as consenting to or choosing who governs.
- kazinator 6y agoThere is a standard way to join a street gang. That doesn't meant that the street gang rules the neighborhood according to a representative democracy, under which people have constitutional rights.
- vernie 6y agoBe like China!
- Cookingboy 6y ago>For years China has banned systems and applications from other parts of the world. That statement is a lie. Not a single one of those companies are banned in China, they voluntarily choose to not operate there, mostly due to them not wanting to comply to draconian Chinese laws. In Netflix's case they simply don't want to compete against the local streaming market. Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Intel, AMD, Cisco, etc are just some of the big techs that's doing very well in China. It's hard to have a genuine discussion when people are intentionally spreading misinformation.
- kazinator 6y agoYou're not banned from my house, but if you come to visit, you're required to beat my children.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 6y agoCisco: "Don't mind if I do!"