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Understand that China has done the exact same thing to our companies!

Google, Facebook, yahoo, WhatsApp pre-Meta/FB, and 50+ other US companies are banned from doing business in China, replaced with the Chinese equivalent!!
If we're going to copy China can we also get 95% health coverage or is it just going to be the censorship, which the US Constitution guarantees freedom from?
 
Wrong! TikTok had serious security and social agenda! The TikTok app in China promotes STEM to anyone under the age of 16, while China actually and has been proven purposely to promote dangerous challenges, dancing, things that are not productive towards a greater future of America!

China is playing the long game, and not here now game!!

China has banned over 50 US companies from doing business in China years ago, so Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, and many others have been banned from China, replaced with the Chinese equivalent!!

LOL god forbid they promote DANCING! JFC go watch Footloose.
 
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I’m gradually ditching meta and Amazon products at the moment. Apple, Google et al will be next if they move to align too closely with the Trumpy mis/disinformation crowd.
 
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I’m gradually ditching meta and Amazon products at the moment. Apple, Google et al will be next if they move to align too closely with the Trumpy mis/disinformation crowd.

Same boat. I’m out of meta, Amazon is down to just prime as it’s already paid (returned that color kindle), and decided this year to pause purchases of Apple products for the first time in over 20 years.
 
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How META gonna call this a "CapCut rival" when, as of this writing, CapCut is still banned thanks to META?
 
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This is so much fun!

When Brazil banned temporarily X, all American congress came on screaming that we were not a democracy anymore blah blah blah.

And that’s because X didn’t want to ban account of people doxxing police officers, and defying the court by firing 300 people, including their legal representative.

It surely was not because we didn’t like X and asked Musk to sell its Brazilian business to a Brazilian company.

😂😂👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
 
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Will try it out once it is available, but don't think I will be using it always. Not sure how much the AI powered animations will be useful.
 
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Same boat. I’m out of meta, Amazon is down to just prime as it’s already paid (returned that color kindle), and decided this year to pause purchases of Apple products for the first time in over 20 years.
The big tech overlords are so damn greedy with regards to tiny royalties for content providers (particularly artists & writers). There has never been a more appropriate time to support independent bookshops, in-person events, screenings and favour egalitarian online services such as Substack, Bandcamp, Bluesky and Mastodon over the tight ass billionaires at Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft & Meta.
 
Capcut is still available in the U.K., not that I use it because I prefer using da Vinci resolve, but still here. I complain about the U.K a fair bit about this and that, but so glad I live here, certainly now
 
If we're going to copy China can we also get 95% health coverage or is it just going to be the censorship, which the US Constitution guarantees freedom from?

Here’s hoping for the high corporate taxes and low personal taxes part of that too. Seems like the carrot of lowering them to near zero by investing in jobs and infrastructure like the US did in the 50s, 60s and 70s might have been a good idea…
 
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I’m gradually ditching meta and Amazon products at the moment. Apple, Google et al will be next if they move to align too closely with the Trumpy mis/disinformation crowd.

I get what you're saying and even support it, but how do you ditch both Apple and Google products?

What mobile phone OS are you going to be using then? Genuine question.
 
It's hilarious how petrified the USA is of China, they're living rent free in every single aspect of their lives and they haven't even started yet, talk about taking candy from a baby, the reasons put forward from those American genius are utterly ludicrous anyway
Thanks for season two of the best comedy ever created too, I cannot wait
 
Meta is a fascist propaganda network. If you aren't a Nazi that is doing Nazi things, there's no reason to have any meta accounts anymore.
 
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