Is it not ironic that Facebook is unable to sue the Chinese government behind their ban?
It is not even a remotely similar situation.
- If you wish to do business in a country you must follow their laws.
- The laws of a country are unjust, oppressive and the government that enacted them is corrupt.
> The laws of a country are unjust, oppressive and the government that enacted them is corrupt.
The laws of a country could be completely just and unoppressive, but it doesn't really matter unless the judiciary has the will and power to use them in the people's best interest.
Control over the Xinjiang/Uyghur narrative is paramount in the "New Cold War" declared against China by Pompeo this July, so Facebook's actions are not surprising.
Bytedance can comply to US’ requirement of untying CCP. but a simple google search tells the truth
https://www.google.com/search?q=%E5%AD%97%E8%8A%82%E8%B7%B3%...
As a Chinese, I want someone be tough on The new Hitler, I don’t care if Volkswagen is caught in the middle.
> Day after day, night after night, he went from one Jewish house to the next, telling his story and that of Malka, the young girl who lay dying for three days, and that of Tobie, the tailor who begged to die before his sons were killed.
> Moishe was not the same. The joy in his eyes was gone. He no longer sang. He no longer mentioned either God or Kabbalah. He spoke only of what he had seen. But people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen. Some even insinuated that he only wanted their pity, that he was imagining things. Others flatly said that he had gone mad.
Is it impossible for history to repeat itself with a new Hitler? If not, how could we recognize him (/her)?
Like, if one were to tell a tale of some non-mainstream Christian commune which gave free healthcare to neighboring cities and then one day one of the commune members went to a hospital in a neighboring city and they charged that member a massive hospital bill, that would similarly not generate that feeling of irony.
I don’t mean to say that the US is a tremendous beacon of light in all respects, but we do have this principle that everyone can have their day in court and in some respects that is one wavelength of light which we are a beacon of, and it is not terribly surprising that we cast this light out to a world which does not cast it back to us. (As you might see, in other respects I think that ‘beacon’ is quite problematic. None of my Dutch relatives are looking over at the US and saying ‘you know what the Netherlands needs? More lawsuits!’ But it does give a certain access to structures of power which in China one is often impotent to actually access.)
Would it take place in: A) American justice system, or in B) Chinese justice system?
The answer is: B) Facebook would have to sue the Chinese in China, in the Chinese jurisdiction subject to Chinese law. And under Chinese law, it is legal for China to block Facebook, therefore there is nothing for Facebook to do there.
Now... TikTok vs the US is a different case. That would take place in American jurisdiction where TikTok may actually have legal path to make this go away.
American corporations themselves are also a national security threat. Tax evasion, lobbying, etc.