It’s rather comical, how for the past 20 years, Americans have been claiming themselves to be the pinnacle of creativity and innovation. And at the same time, d

It’s rather comical, how for the past 20 years, Americans have been claiming themselves to be the pinnacle of creativity and innovation. And at the same time, denouncing the Chinese as a bunch of copycats-but-can-never-innovate. And they said the same thing about the Japanese a generation earlier. Even Carly Fiorina, the witch CEO that burned down HP, said that the Chinese cannot innovate. [1] And here you have a prime example of a Chinese company that found a good usage of the recommendation AI technique, and applied it in an innovative way, and created a whole new platform, that works better than YouTube or Twitter or Facebook. And what happens? The white Americans steal it. Oh I’m sorry, their president declared it into law, like a dictator does, and force Tiktok to sell itself at firesale prices. And what of all the supporters here on HN that have claimed that the Chinese can’t innovate. Well, their obvious answer is that Tiktok is obviously a spyware app for the Chinese government. The American way to steal, is to force a firesale by edict, and get the patents for it. Then claim that it is their own. The United States also did this to Toshiba and other Japanese semiconductor companies in the 1980s. Same dirty trick, different generation. LOL. The hypocrisy of Americans. But of course, you are free to prove me wrong. Also, I expect to get flagged and downvoted for this comment. [1] https://time.com/3897081/carly-fiorina-china-innovation/ https://time.com/3897081/carly-fiorina-china-innovation/