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With Temu coming from China to compete with Amazon, and the US regulators going full anti-China recently, I'm really interested to see whether these actions aga
by johndhi 3y ago
With Temu coming from China to compete with Amazon, and the US regulators going full anti-China recently, I'm really interested to see whether these actions against Amazon get pushback from the top of government, and ultimately get stalled.
- ocdtrekkie 3y agoI hope not. I am so tired of "but if you don't let us be evil, China will" as a justification to allow tech monopolies to operate unchecked. We should regulate Amazon, and we cannot regulate Temu, we ban it.
- FormerBandmate 3y agoChina’s banning our tech companies and they’re regulating the shit out of their own. They do a lot of shit we shouldn’t but they’re dead on that tech companies should serve society instead of the other way around
- hyuuu 3y agoeh, the US also bans Chinese tech companies too, i think the fear of data being used inappropriately is equally high on both parties. The US does have more international and larger corporations, so obviously in terms of number we have more banned.
- gloryjulio 3y agoNot really. There are some hardware bans, but are there any bans on the software companies?
- jimbob45 3y agoWe should regulate Amazon, and we cannot regulate Temu, we ban it. Then we're back to the trade war. The tit-for-tat from that became ridiculous.
- cscurmudgeon 3y agoWe have always been in a trade war, we just never fought back.
- PreachSoup 3y agoWe are not back in the trade war. We always IN the trade war. Look up how many things are banned in China while their companies like Tencent/Tiktok/ Aliexpress/Temu just do whatever they want here. The question has and will always been, so what are you gonna do about it?
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- screwturner68 3y agoA lot of the anti-china stuff is coming from the top, the CHIPS act is a great example. I think taking down Amazon and maybe busting them up ala AT&T would be a feather in Biden's cap with the liberals and the right thing to do. Then they need to go after Google and Facebook.
- chaosharmonic 3y ago> A lot of the anti-china stuff is coming from the top, the CHIPS act is a great example. I mean... TSMC is based in Taiwan, and if China were ever to invade they'd have a vested interest in kneecapping American businesses that currently rely on that chip supply (AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm all come to mind) -- for any of a list of reasons ranging from turnabout over the whole Huawei thing to just the obvious incentive to turn that manufacturing capacity toward producing a domestic supply. In that context, building up domestic suppliers of our own is just a reasonable precaution. > I think taking down Amazon and maybe busting them up ala AT&T would be a feather in Biden's cap with the liberals and the right thing to do. Then they need to go after Google and Facebook. But also yes, I'm with you on this wholeheartedly. I'd further add, given we have a history of breaking up telecom companies specifically for amassing too much market power that you as a consumer to avoid them, that we should probably turn the same to most ISPs. Also that it's baffling that no one's gone after Apple over iMessage, what with the way it actively makes text chains worse the moment anyone involved isn't a customer of theirs.
- jncfhnb 3y agoOh neat. I didn’t know who Temu was or why I was getting blasted with their ads. They keep trying to sell me dildo headware.