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You must love Meta then, who refused to compromise to enter China (and boy, they tried). While Apple happily shares data with Chinese government to make billion
by justapassenger 3y ago
You must love Meta then, who refused to compromise to enter China (and boy, they tried). While Apple happily shares data with Chinese government to make billions.
- ehsankia 3y agoSimilarly, Bing is happy to run in China while Google pulled out of there.
- scarface_74 3y agoYou mean how Facebook wouldn’t “compromise” when it was outright banned?
- lawn 3y agoIf they would have compromised they wouldn't have been banned. So, yes?
- scarface_74 3y agohttps://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/042915/why-facebook-banned-china.asp https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/042915/why-f... China never asked them to compromise. They were banned in 2009.
- lawn 3y agoAnd you know for a fact that they never communicated with Facebook and just banned them out of the blue? Or is this just speculation (fitting considering the source)?
- scarface_74 3y agoSeeing that every non Chinese social media company was banned and that Zuckerberg later tried to get back into China > In 2018, Facebook attempted to set up a $30 million subsidiary in Hangzhou to incubate startups and give advice to local businesses. Permission to run the startup was quickly withdrawn Do you really think that Facebook is out of China for any moral reason?
- justapassenger 3y agoZuckerberg was courting China hard around 2015-ish, to allow them to operate. He learnt mandarin, spoke at Tsinghua University in Beijing, met Xi, etc. Of course, we don’t know real reasons why they didn’t open there, but end result is that Apple shares data with China and Meta doesn’t.