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I would be more sympathetic to this line of argument if the CCP weren't currently banning every single US-based social network. Reciprocation is the only sensi
by flappyeagle 4y ago
I would be more sympathetic to this line of argument if the CCP weren't currently banning every single US-based social network.
Reciprocation is the only sensible response. This shouldn't be about race, or even data. It should be about trade policy.
- filoleg 4y agoWell, CCP is an extremely authoritarian state, and plenty of their constituents would love to be able to access western apps/services. The cool thing is that US, for all its faults, is not like that, and shouldn't aspire to be like that. If the US constituents want to access TikTok, they should be able to, unless it poses some actual danger. An example of such danger would be what led to the recent ban on Huawei equipment in the networking infra, which I fully support. But TikTok ain't it, and this is just pure "well those nasty guys did this nasty thing, so we are gonna do the same nasty thing because uhhhh they did that thing!"
- flappyeagle 4y agoAccess to foreign goods and services is mediated by US foreign policy and trade policy. These are tools to be used to advantage our home country in the context of global competition. Aspiration needs to be balanced against the realities of dealing with a powerful adversary.
- UncleMeat 4y ago"The Chinese Government is bad." "We should enact policy similar to what the Chinese Government does." Not sure if I agree.
- throwaway29812 4y agoOversimplifications to this degree aren't helpful. A specific policy should see a specific response, no matter who you think is "bad".