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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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