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Microsoft's Bing is allowed, because they apply the same censorship as local companies. That's a barrier to entry into the market (need to hire lots of censors)
by yorwba 4y ago
Microsoft's Bing is allowed, because they apply the same censorship as local companies. That's a barrier to entry into the market (need to hire lots of censors) but not a competitive disadvantage (because everyone else also needs to hire lots of censors).
American politicians who want to copy Chinese policies to retaliate for unfair treatment of American companies would be retaliating against American citizens for unfairly having First Amendment rights when Chinese citizens don't.
- mannerheim 4y agoI doubt American citizens would be banned from accessing TikTok. It would just be banned from app stores and CDNs, presumably if they sideload or visit the website they will be able to access it.
- mad0 4y agoI think this would effectively drop the usage (maybe not to 0 but enough to allow other social services to come back on the stage). Most people don't know how to sideload or don't want to sideload anything out of app store, the webpage version is unwieldy to use.
- cscurmudgeon 4y agohttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/12/google-china-ends-censorship https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/12/google-ch... > Google said the cyber attack originated from China and that its intellectual property was stolen, but that evidence suggested a primary goal was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. How many Chinese human rights activists use or used Hotmail?
- rfoo 4y agoQuite a lot in the old days. Microsoft is a well-known brand in China. Grandma and grandpas are repeating stories of Bill Gates during 00s, they don't know who tf Sergey is. There are very minimal Mac users, so computer = PC = Windows + Office = Microsoft.
- cscurmudgeon 4y agoThat doesn't mean tech-savvy human rights activists used Microsoft's HotMail over Gmail.
- rfoo 4y agoHuman rights activists are not tech-savvy.