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Re:India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps by xster on Monday June 29, 2020 @03:02PM (#23681172)
Though if you apply your argument with rigor and reciprocity was in play, more countries should ban american social media which censors geopolitical rivals

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/01/12/us-pressure-social-media-...

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Re:India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps by AlchemistCamp on Monday June 29, 2020 @03:20PM (#23681403)
Venezuela, Iran and Syria do censor US media and it's far more extensive than any censorship of foreign media within the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Iran

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Syria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Venezuela

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Re:India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps by DeonPenny on Monday June 29, 2020 @04:20PM (#23682285)
They do censor american social media. Like china and north korea obviously do
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Re:India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps by mathnmusic on Monday June 29, 2020 @04:26PM (#23682398)
It's bound to happen. See the political battles being fought for data localisation, and control of Internet governing bodies.
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Re:India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps by kilroy_jones on Monday June 29, 2020 @08:18PM (#23685106)
So you're equating the banning of accounts to the blocking of the majority of internet?
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Re:India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps by product50 on Monday June 29, 2020 @04:37PM (#23682617)
America will literally fuck with you if you start doing this at scale. India can ban Chinese app since India can do this. China needed to understand this before escalating the border tensions with India.
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