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https://abcnews.go.com/Business/tiktok-china/story?id=108111...

Anecdotally, I have heard from people who lived in China at the time that there was a significant shift in content a few years back.

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The whole country had a shift though, they implemented gaming and entertainment regulations and video sites like bilibili went from $153 to a low of $8 a share.

China didn't go after TikTok _alone_ - they reportedly went after anything deemed too addictive, including limiting the time spent on games. It was very clearly aimed towards reducing digital addiction (which is something us in the West still try to ignore as an epidemic)

> China didn't go after TikTok _alone_

Because it was never there. Bytedance never launched TikTok in China.

it's called Douyin. It's the same product, the same way a Mexican Coke is the same thing as an American Coke, and both are produced by the same company (Coca Cola).

Mexican Coke is different though. It doesn't use HFCS.

Precisely. Like TikTok and Douyin.

Except your analogy breaks as they are not the same product.

Except they are

No, buddy, they're not. If two products have the same name but different ingredients, they are categorically not the same product.

You chose a bad analogy, that's all.

Yes it does. The US product called Mexican Coke doesn't, but Coke in Mexico does.

It would be more like Coke was Mexican owned and HFCS was outlawed in Mexico. Then Mexican Coke used sugar and the Coke they exported to America used HFCS. And America said, hey, you're not consuming the same Coke you send here: we're going to ban you if you don't sell to us and our plan is to keep making HFCS Coke once we buy you. You were also hurting Pepsi (Facebook/Twitter), who also only plan on ever using HFCS.

> it's called Douyin. It's the same product

It’s a similar product. We don’t have any server-side code so we don’t know.

did you read the rest of the sentence or

The analogy to Coca Cola? Let me make another comparison: the 737 Max with one AoA sensor was made by the same company that only sold the one with two in America.

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