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It's not like this crackdown is about the CCP's concern for protecting user data and preventing monopolies. It's just a turf war over the data and in a larger s
by yaitsyaboi 5y ago
It's not like this crackdown is about the CCP's concern for protecting user data and preventing monopolies. It's just a turf war over the data and in a larger sense over control of the direction of the country.
Same reason Jack Ma went (extremely) conspicuously missing last fall.
CCP wants the economic growth and international prestige that a burgeoning tech sector provides, but does not want anything resembling the system we have where facebook can tell the White House to take a hike. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/17/technology/facebook-vaccine-misinformation.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/17/technology/facebook-vacci...
- noarchy 5y agoIt's very telling that you're being downvoted for pointing out the obvious about the CCP's motivations. Those trying to create moral equivalency between what the CCP is doing and the regulation that some want in the West are being very disingenuous.