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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by 9nGQluzmnq3M on Friday August 07, 2020 @05:24AM (#24080015)
> FB, Google sell billions in ads to China

Citation needed. Both are effectively completely blocked in China by the GFW.

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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by yorwba on Friday August 07, 2020 @05:57AM (#24080230)
Google the search engine is blocked in China. Google Ads aren't. It used to be the case that if you visited a website with Google Ads from China without VPN, most of those ads would be for VPN services. Last year, Google stopped showing VPN ads in China to comply with Chinese regulations: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-bans-vpn-ads-in-china/
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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by pishpash on Friday August 07, 2020 @05:29AM (#24080049)
Ads are sold on the platforms for clicks outside China. There may be other B2B revenue streams.
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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by dirtyid on Friday August 07, 2020 @05:28AM (#24080048)
Chinese buys FB ads to sell in other regions, same with Google. They have other business presence there too. It's small relative to global operations, but point is, if they follow the law, they can operate legally. Like Microsoft.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-china-focus/face...

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