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Re:India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps by learnstats2 on Monday June 29, 2020 @04:19PM (#23682273)
Why should India ban a Chinese social media company and not an US social media company, it's a matter of national security? This claim is just xenophobic nonsense.
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Re:India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps by djrogers on Monday June 29, 2020 @04:22PM (#23682326)
One is a private corporation in a relatively progressive and free country, the other is a company controlled by an authoritarian nation-state. There's clearly a difference...
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Re:India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps by cambalache on Monday June 29, 2020 @08:38PM (#23685243)
> One is a private corporation in a relatively progressive and free country,

I think he is referring to Google.

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Re:India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps by catalogia on Monday June 29, 2020 @05:28PM (#23683343)
Google is a public company, not that it should matter in this context.
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Re:India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps by microcolonel on Monday June 29, 2020 @05:58PM (#23683726)
AFAIK “public company” is a misnomer shorthand for “publicly-traded company”, it has nothing to do with "public sector" or similar concepts. Publicly-traded companies are still private corporations.
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Re:India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps by edgyquant on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @01:57AM (#23687033)
It does mean there's a regulated level of transparency force on them
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Re:India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps by ajinkyapatil on Monday June 29, 2020 @04:34PM (#23682567)
Because one attacked and killed Indian Soldiers, and has a active border dispute with India.
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Re:India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps by pvelagal on Monday June 29, 2020 @04:38PM (#23682634)
China bans every app ? Xenophobic nonsense ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...
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Re:India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps by microcolonel on Monday June 29, 2020 @05:55PM (#23683677)
Wikipedia notes: This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it

There's nothing xenophobic about the claim that PRC blocks a huge portion of the internet. I operate several websites that are blocked by CCP in PRC, despite having no relation to any policy priority of the CCP or law/edict in PRC.

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