@BMEWS Been out few last few days, can you gimme a summary of what’s going on?
People are using “But China does it as an excuse” but we really aren’t doing it. They want a race to the bottom with China. When in reality they’re alone in that race.
By this logic does it mean they will fix up camps and genocide us? They have an imaginary version of China and they’re trying to become it.
That is it’s a weak strawman. China never banned the likes of Google, google pulled out because they didn’t want to follow Chinese laws inside China.
China isn’t fight back very hard against this because I think Beijing wants Trump to make the ban, and then to extend it and impose it on the rest of the world by forcing Android and Apple to remove those apps from their stores.
While that will absolutely do some short term damage to the Chinese tech companies involved, it will absolutely destroy the reputation of American tech companies and shatter its stranglehold on the world app stores.
Developing an alternative App Store has never hard or an issue, the issue was getting users and developers world wide to jump ship onto it.
America banning popular apps will shift public opinion, while America imposing its choices on the world will shift government policy in places like the EU who have the collective strength to stand up against America.
Like almost all Trump policies, this will produce minimum short term gratification for maximum medium to long term damage.
At best Trump is to America what fast food is to the American individual, but more realistically, he is like meth or crack cocaine. You get a short term high and delirium at the cost of your long term health and well being, and worse, it warps your sense of reality and is highly addictive.
