Comment by bushbaba
16 hours ago
Not everyone on HN is a U.S. national. Many are Chinese nationals. So the discussion here has conflict of interest depending on one’s allegiance
16 hours ago
Not everyone on HN is a U.S. national. Many are Chinese nationals. So the discussion here has conflict of interest depending on one’s allegiance
HN is literally banned in China [1][2]. And since VPNs are also illegal in China, they're breaking the law if they are here. I doubt they'd break the law if they had such a strong allegiance to China.
[1]: https://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=news.ycombinator....
[2]: https://en.greatfire.org/news.ycombinator.com
This has never been a significant barrier for savvy Chinese to post outside the Great Firewall.
International Steam is also banned in China yet we curiously see the majority of users nowadays use simplified Chinese.
and no chinese nationals work in the US. oh wait yes they do. and in my experience the majority plan to return to china after making enough money.
> no good answer on why its bad for a company that is supposedly under Chineese influence to collect this kind of information on us,
In the context of a discussion on a US-specific ban on TikTok I'm taking the "us" in OP's post to mean people in the US. If you aren't in the US the ban doesn't apply to you so the discussion is irrelevant.
So a US court should make decisions not in the US interest because people in other countries use some software?
No. The U.S. court should make decisions in the U.S. interest. But this HN thread represents people from around the world who may not share the U.S. interest at a personal level. Leading to remarks which are trying to sway US opinion.
In a way, this thread could very well be monitored and commented on by a non US nation state