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Comment by emkoemko | Hacker News Reader

how is it fine that the US allows every Chinese site/app to operate and profit from outside China while China banns everything outside China internally and just copies the banned product to profit from inside and out? we should of never allowed this behaviour

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I love the scene from Silicon Valley for this:

Jared: Jian Yang, are you copying all of those companies?

Jian Yang: Oh, no. <whiteboard behind him shows "New Reddit", "New Snapchat", "New Facebook" etc>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km5XQxRrQvw

Who's copying who on tiktok? Look at ig now compared to 2-3 years ago.

Our government can't ban Chinese companies from selling products, it can only ban its own citizens from buying them.

How is it fine that we allow freedom when another country restricts freedom - is that your question? Should we also be against Uighurs like they are in China?

I don't think we should bow down to the lowest denominator and instead still appeal to what's best for all people.

so we good with their GDP growing from using our markets? while they have concentration camps? why are we propping them up if your about freedom?

Sure if you want to go down this route, I don't see why you're singling out TikTok. Do you feel we should stop trading entirely with their country then? I doubt allowing TikTok makes any kind of dent to their GDP versus our other economic entanglements with them.

To me it feels like your argument for banning TikTok is because they ban our applications, and so we should do the same kinds of things they do. My argument is more that we shouldn't measure ourselves against the things they do.

no not just tiktok everything equivalent to what they copied and banned ... Youtube,Google etc etc

The US also imprisons vast quantities of people and forces them to work. We are also heavily dependent on China economically and any US administration would lose a lot of support from the business class if they started mandating economic decoupling.

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