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I am very pro free market, but Temu with data harvesting and selling illegal projects should be banned together with tiktok...
by kvgr 4mo ago
I am very pro free market, but Temu with data harvesting and selling illegal projects should be banned together with tiktok...
- holistio 4mo agoIf you're "pro free market, but", you're not pro free market. That's fine, but you might want to reevaluate whether you're actually for it.
- s_dev 4mo agoThe US and China have standards as well and bodies to regulate them. Regulation vs Free Market debate isn't a binary issue and is a spectrum.
- lokar 4mo agoFree markets can have strong rules. No other than Adam Smith said they are needed.
- hilariously 4mo agoI would even go further and say that the term really has to be almost "equal" - equal access, equal rules, equal legislation or the market isn't really free.
- ale 4mo agoI’d start with the immense packaging waste and shameless overconsumption tricks that are banned in basically any other industry.
- thesmtsolver2 4mo agoDoesn’t TEMU have CCP ties? Free market is for businesses and individuals and foreign govt entities should not unfairly benefit from a free market.
- thenthenthen 4mo agoTies as in pay tax to ccp. In China Temu is called pinduoduo (拼多多）and you can buy some wild stuff there, the regulation on mainland seems also pretty lax i mean.
- frogcoder 4mo agoSorry, ties, as CCP party committees inside private firms. And in case of Temu, it also has a data-sharing agreement with People's Daily [1], a CCP controlled media group. Just image having a mandatory political party inside every American corporation which the board has no control over. 1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/05/01/china-data-propaganda-aspi-report/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/05/01/...
- nickff 4mo agoEvery major PRoC company is required to have CCP ties; in addition to 'paying for facilitation' by local officials, a certain percentage of their employees must be CCP members.
- cm2012 4mo agoAll big companies in China are partially run by the CCP. Just how it works there.
- kvgr 4mo agoEverybody in china that gets big has CCP ties. No way around it. Their car manufacturers are all propped up by government.
- guilhas 4mo agoDont US law makers have stocks in the companies they regulate? Without term limits? And Tesla even gets paid per car sold America is not China, but how close is it getting?
- miohtama 4mo agoDoesn't Bezos have Trump ties?
- victorbjorklund 4mo agoAs if Amazon don’t harvest data or have illegal products on its marketplace.
- hulitu 4mo agoAmazon is better: it lobbies the EU. Why do you think Temu got fined ?