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Chinese video platform Bilibili is going global to challenge Youtube (www.engadget.com)
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The China-centric video sharing platform is expanding with a new international app and an English version of its website -- with no identity verification (for now at least)

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[–] 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm all for it, America needs to be reminded of what capitalism actually is.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Knowing our govt, Google will lobby them to ban BiliBili so they can enjoy classic american protectionism. Can't make it in a free market so just ban / tariff the competition to hell.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    what would the equivalent action under communism be?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    the way i imagine it:

    • as long as it's american companies running everything, it's "fair" and "free market".
    • as long as some company from abroad manages to do things better and more efficient, and american companies come under pressure, we'll suddenly erect trade barriers and market hurdles to "protect american values", "for our national security" or sth else. i've seen this soo many times. people who "just follow the rules" as long as the rules benefit them. as soon as the same rules start biting them in their own ass, suddenly for some reason they say that we need to change the rules.
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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    Kinda like the EV situation in Europe (especially germany). European car makers benefited from cheap chinese labor force for centuries now while their executives, sitting in china, saw in real time how china started working on EV cars and thought nothing about it, riding high on their hubris since "no one could ever outpace them". And now that china outpaced them the european coalition quickly released enormous tariffs on chinese EV imports to "secure the european car market" and "save themselves from the sheer wave of cheap (and nowadays also way better) EV cars." When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.

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