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> Yet there's always someone in any given thread about a Chinese app jumping to its defense saying "but Silicon Valley." The reason there's always someone star
by vkou 4y ago
> Yet there's always someone in any given thread about a Chinese app jumping to its defense saying "but Silicon Valley."
The reason there's always someone starting a subthread about it is because Silicon Valley and the United States has, had, and will continue to have all the same incentives and problems for international users. [1]
It's not a very interesting conversation, because it adds nothing that hasn't been said a million times, but neither does another lap around the 'China bad' rhetorical track.
[1] And also domestic users, but they have some means of recourse for it.