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Re:Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action by eru on Saturday August 01, 2020 @08:47AM (#24020055)
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.

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Re:Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action by chii on Saturday August 01, 2020 @08:49AM (#24020062)
> 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.

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Re:Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action by eru on Saturday August 01, 2020 @08:56AM (#24020106)
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.

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