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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by brightball on Saturday August 01, 2020 @04:09PM (#24023500)
Agreed completely. The degree of pressure that China applies outside of software is also very unsettling. The latest episode with the NBA allowing players to promote social causes on their uniforms for example...unless you’re supporting Hong Kong or Taiwan. It’s appalling.
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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by pm90 on Saturday August 01, 2020 @04:50PM (#24023799)
America applies diplomatic pressure too, for the things it finds important. This is how international politics work.
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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by sidlls on Saturday August 01, 2020 @05:12PM (#24023946)
There’s diplomatic pressure and then there’s egregious crackdowns in service of totalitarianism.
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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by sidlls on Saturday August 01, 2020 @09:33PM (#24025552)
The US, for all its flaws, is not yet a dictatorship that oppresses any opposition to the government with harsh penalties including imprisonment end execution.

We’ve got serious problems and are well down the path of a fascist police state, but we aren’t there yet. Compared to China we very much can take the moral high ground.

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