Comment by suraci
4 days ago
Wrong
1. China asked American SNS companys to 'obey Chinese laws', which mostly refer to content control and data ownership, these companys refused, China didn'tforced them to sell 2. Are you sure to play the 'same as what China does'? hey, we are a totalitarian, authoritarian, dictatorial regime, are we same? think twice
2. The game can be slightly different. "hey, we are open by default. but if an authoritarian regimes wants to exploit our openness by marketing their apps while at the same time banning our apps from their market, then we will strike back".
paradox of intolerance and all that..
If we played the same as China does, we'd be hacking Baidu through a vulnerability in a Microsoft web browser until they withdrew completely from the American market.
> If we played the same as China does, we'd be hacking Baidu through a vulnerability in a Microsoft web browser
We don't?
With the goal of driving them out of the US?
I just typed https://www.baidu.com into my browser bar, hit enter, and their page loaded.
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Have you heard of the NSA
I'm not saying we don't hack them.
I'm saying we don't hack them with the goal of driving them out of the American market, which is what happened to Google's PRC operations.
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1. Yes, China forced the sale of Uber China to Didi - this is well documented.
2. Did I say that? No. I am opposed to the tiktok ban
China forced the sale of Uber China to Didi - this is well documented
really? > https://www.bbc.com/news/36938812 > https://www.heritage.org/international-economies/commentary/...
Let me tell you a cruel fact - Uber is completely unable to compete with Didi. You have no idea how fierce the competition in this industry in China is.
Uber died before it grew up in China
Uber got 33%+ market share.
From your article:
> If Uber had become a commercial success in China, Chinese authorities ultimately would have clamped down to protect their domestic competitors.
> firms that do occasionally find success often face headwinds from Chinese regulators who limit their access to the domestic market.
> Didi naturally had state-backed funding, receiving a significant cash infusion from China's large sovereign-wealth fund.
> "Uber China" sought local investors. The hope was that, with local investors, the Chinese operation would be spared some of the hamstringing restrictions typically imposed on foreign businesses.
China is well-known to have intense domestic favoritism. Not sure where the profit is in denying that, given your own sources seem to clearly state it and even name a number of channels through which the state puts their thumb on the scale, not just regulatory but also through financing.
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Heck, China forced Apple to divest iCloud to the government of Guizhou.
it's about data ownership, part of data compliance, citizen data can not be pass to abroad, of course, it's also about content censorship
Microsoft and Tesla accepted the same rule
You can understand it as the US gov requiring TikTok's data must be hosted by Microsoft in the US