US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days

Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by kortilla on Friday August 07, 2020 @05:45AM (#24080155)

That’s not meritocratic in the normal sense of the word. Nobody is allowed to ignore CCP policy goals hoping to prove that they are flawed with data later. You’ll be in a re-education camp long before then.

Now it may be true that you can quickly climb the ladder if you never challenge anything, but that’s a pretty narrow set of merit being recognized. It’s just barely an improvement over promoting family members. In both cases, no fundamental change can legitimately bubble up based on merit.

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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by chrischen on Friday August 07, 2020 @07:26AM (#24080728)

A system that does not respond well to criticism will inevitably fail on its own... in which case they don't need their apps to be banned for that to happen.

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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by kortilla on Friday August 07, 2020 @03:02PM (#24085334)

History has shown that countries can suppress dissidents for hundreds of years. This current rendition of the Chinese government could easily survive decades while suppressing criticism (which they obviously do).

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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by chrischen on Friday August 07, 2020 @11:25PM (#24088683)

So you are justifying American imperialism in "helping countries along" by forcibly collapsing unfavorable regimes?

If only the US motives were actually that altruistic, but in reality US intervention in foreign regimes were mostly to protect its interests rather than any actual ideals.

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