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Why can China even buy ads on Facebook, a website they have banned? So they are allowed to push their narrative onto Westerners, but the inverse is not allowed
by axiosgunnar 5y ago
Why can China even buy ads on Facebook, a website they have banned?
So they are allowed to push their narrative onto Westerners, but the inverse is not allowed?
- bagacrap 5y agoEverything about the West's relationship with China is asymmetric. I don't really blame China for realpolitik while trying to play catch up here, but I do wish they'd stop their expansionism. They already have enough people and resources to be the world #1 economy. Also the human rights violations are a bit of a mystery to me --- what's the point of a strong economy if people are suffering? Hopefully that will resolve itself in the same way the US used slave labor to bootstrap itself (unjustly, but it is what it is) then later banned it.
- z0r 5y agoBecause multinational corporations will take money from any buyer the law allows, so long as nobody is looking too closely at the moment