Re:Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action
by chii on Saturday August 01, 2020 @05:37AM
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There's nothing weird about "an eye for an eye" approach. The fact that chinese media and tech companies are allowed to operate unhindered in the USA is what's really weird. Unfortunately, banning it in the USA is a bit of a pointless act imho.
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Re:Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action
by eru on Saturday August 01, 2020 @08:47AM
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If you want to use those metaphors, it's the Chinese who are poking out their own eyes, ie who are restricting what their customers can have access to.
That's a great injustice to the Chinese people. But Americans poking their own eyes out in 'retaliation' makes neither Americans nor Chinese customers better off.
Re:Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action
by chii on Saturday August 01, 2020 @08:49AM
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> neither Americans nor Chinese customers better off.
who said anything about making customers better off? it's done to hurt the other party's profit and expansion and influence.
Re:Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action
by eru on Saturday August 01, 2020 @08:56AM
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Well, ostensibly politics is done in the name of making citizens better off. Customers are citizens.
Of course, if you get arbitrarily cynical, you are right. But then we'd need to have a very different discussion.