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A bit hypocritical but it's still mostly correct. Also, China is not the US. This is a Giant Thing. China would never, ever, ever allow US companies to have
by jollybean 4y ago
A bit hypocritical but it's still mostly correct.
Also, China is not the US.
This is a Giant Thing.
China would never, ever, ever allow US companies to have direct influence over their media, so even by basic tit-for-tat rules, this is reasonable.
Moreover, even from a 'trade' perspective, if China does not allow such social media apps from US over there, which denies US companies that Ad revenue, the same should be applied in reverse. No sense in letting TT get Ad revenue, it should go to some entity playing by the same rules US, Europe, Japan etc.
- jmfayard 4y agoIt's not even hypocrisy, they believe there are not bad things but only bad people doing it. Like in the Harry Potter book where slavery is not bad per se, only when done by bad people. If Harry Potter owns a slave that's fine because Harry is good.
- bsaul 4y agothe symmetry in anticompetitive practices is actually the only good reason i see for banning the app. Hiding behind pretexts to make it seem based on law will only add an absurd legal precedent to app developers.
- jollybean 4y agoThe legal reasons are legit. 'Foreign Governments' are not 'Our Government' and of course China is not the US. That matters. I suggest that the 'deal' should likely involved localized data and internal controls, with oversight, so that the CCP just doesn't have operational access to the data. Companies at a certain scale have regulatory requirements, it's just like in other industries.