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Comment by throwaw12

6 hours ago

I love this, really, competition on a global scale is good for us, bad for greedy US corporations.

For example, I consider Meta as bigger threat to society, than Xiaomi, DeepSeek, z.ai and other top Chinese companies (haven't used Chinese social media, so can't comment about its content)

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apparent  4 hours ago

When you say "greedy US corporations" do you mean that these US corporations are uniquely greedy, or that all corporations are greedy, and this is bad for the ones in the US? Do you think that corporations in China, which in many cases are subsidized by the government, are also greedy?

  • throwaw12  3 hours ago

    all for profit companies are greedy by their nature, but US companies are on a different level because you can 'buy' the government by lobbying or supporting their election campaigns or break the law and eventually make sure law is changed to fit your business (e.g. first taxi medallions adjusted the law for themselves, and then Uber)

    Same is very difficult to do in China (look what happened to Jack Ma) or in Europe, because you have to follow some regulations

ford  4 hours ago

Do you still believe this considering those companies live and die by the CCP? Would you feel differently if scale was reversed and Meta was the upstart trying to compete with Xiaomi/etc?

I'm right there with you questioning Meta's value for society, but I do believe it has less opportunity for abuse/manipulation

  • creaturemachine  4 hours ago

    Considering Meta lives and dies by the White House, where abuse and manipulation have become SOP, I'm not sure the CCP stacks up as the boogeyman anymore.

  • throwaw12  4 hours ago

    > those companies live and die by the CCP

    I don't care about internal politics of a state, as long as they are not killing people deliberately on a daily basis or invading other countries and killing their people.

    How government is structured is up to Chinese people to decide

    > Would you feel differently if scale was reversed and Meta was the upstart trying to compete with Xiaomi/etc?

    It's not only about scale and upstart, it's also about how much are they harming society.

  • aaroninsf  4 hours ago

    It would be quite a demonstration of supremacy for any Chinese firm to to equal or exceed the damage done (and ongoing) to western society by meta.