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Re:US bans WeChat, TikTok from app stores, threatens shutdowns by scarmig on Friday September 18, 2020 @05:00PM (#24521850)
No. It is evil, just as the Chinese bans on Facebook etc are evil. There is no real, legitimate reason to ban any software meant for communication. Payments I accept, but general communication should not under any circumstances.

Just because some people want to turn the US into a mini PRC doesn't mean we have to embrace their noxious, evil value system.

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Re:US bans WeChat, TikTok from app stores, threatens shutdowns by chrchang523 on Friday September 18, 2020 @10:04PM (#24524214)
Nobody is seriously proposing that the US ban successful Indian companies, or that India ban successful US companies (the pushback against Free Basics did not rise to anywhere near that level). This is strictly about global retaliation against PRC Internet policy that is practically forced by geopolitical game theory at this point.
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