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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by ec109685 on Friday January 17, 2025 @05:30PM (#42743963)
“Chinese movies” are popular in Vietnam for example, so not fair to say they have no global reach.
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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by echoangle on Friday January 17, 2025 @06:08PM (#42744195)
Those two share a border, how does that show global reach? I would be surprised if a country didn’t influence its neighbors in some ways.
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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by throwawayq3423 on Friday January 17, 2025 @08:51PM (#42745087)
This is precisely what i'm talking about. A country of 1.4b with a film industry that gets billions in state subsidies and they best they can do is mild popularity of a few films on their physical borders.

Censorship is the enemy of art.

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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by realusername on Saturday January 18, 2025 @02:09AM (#42746511)
They are yes but I'd say that the Korean ones are even more popular.
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