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Re:FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores ove... by pretdl on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @04:03PM (#31925045)
You know that other countries do just that especially China.
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Re:FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores ove... by throwaway123989 on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @04:17PM (#31925201)
What are the cases of such events?
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Re:FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores ove... by npteljes on Thursday June 30, 2022 @07:02AM (#31930891)
A few high-profile examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...

You can also pick one, and check with a tool like this:

https://www.comparitech.com/privacy-security-tools/blockedin...

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Re:FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores ove... by throwaway123989 on Friday July 01, 2022 @04:46PM (#31952627)
None of these are banned. They simply choose to not operate in China, because the laws require them hand over user data. So they choose to monopolize those data themselves, which is allowed in US and so called "free" nations. Go figure how ridiculous that is.
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Re:FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores ove... by npteljes on Friday July 01, 2022 @06:14PM (#31953714)
Yes, some of those are banned. Banned means to prohibit, especially by legal means. These websites are not reachable from mainland China, so they are banned in mainland China.

Their operation wasn't suspended for a compliance reason. This article lists some of those, and their (suspected) reason for the ban:

https://www.businessinsider.com/major-us-tech-companies-bloc...

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Re:FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores ove... by throwaway123989 on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @08:14PM (#32090373)
Then there are a lot of Chinese companies are banned from US market.
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Re:FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores ove... by npteljes on Saturday July 16, 2022 @04:34AM (#32116221)
What's your point?
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Re:FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores ove... by throwaway123989 on Monday July 18, 2022 @01:11PM (#32140667)
The point is there is no moral high ground in economic competition.
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Re:FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores ove... by thisarticle on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @04:31PM (#31925377)
How many Google businesses operate in China?
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Re:FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores ove... by pretdl on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @05:45PM (#31926089)
Banned in china: Google Gmail Google Play Google Maps Google Drive Google News Facebook Facebook Messenger Instagram Twitter Reddit Tumblr Pinterest WhatsApp Snapchat Slack Viber Line Discord Telegram Signal Wikipedia Dropbox OneDrive Blogger WordPress Medium Quora BBC The New York Times The Guardian The Washington Post Daily Mail CBC (Canada) ABC (Australia) Spotify SoundCloud Amazon Music Pandora Tinder Pornhub XVideos Chaturbate Twitch PlayStation Coinbase Binance
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Re:FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores ove... by lucky1759 on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @11:44PM (#31928533)
Plus NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk) the most absurd one I've found so far.
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Re:FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores ove... by azemetre on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @08:31PM (#31927417)
You should edit your comment, it comes across as being in poor taste. There's this idea that people of one race have a very hard time seeing differences in other races:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-race_effect

Just because you can't tell the difference between a variety of women of one race doesn't mean they have no features.

The good news is that this effect is easily reversible (even being aware of it helps tremendously).

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