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New comment by glurblur in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

glurblur — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:59:18 +0000

Yeah, from my other reply

> I don't think that's going to happen. The party official seems to be positive about the event overall based on their press release recently. IMO it's going to the opposite direction, where they try to get more foreign users on the platform and have them stay there. If I were a CCP official, I would love to have more soft power by having everyone on a Chinese platform.

New comment by glurblur in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

glurblur — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:57:33 +0000

I don't think that's going to happen. The party official seems to be positive about the event overall based on their press release recently. IMO it's going to the opposite direction, where they try to get more foreign users on the platform and have them stay there. If I were a CCP official, I would love to have more soft power by having everyone on a Chinese platform.

New comment by glurblur in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

glurblur — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:55:01 +0000

It does allow LGBTQ+ content actually. There are tons of it on the platform. It's just it doesn't "explicitly" allow it, if that makes sense.

New comment by glurblur in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

glurblur — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:52:28 +0000

That's because it's only added recently. It's mainly used by overseas Chinese and mainland Chinese, also, until recently.

New comment by glurblur in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

glurblur — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 05:31:38 +0000

The burden of proof lies on the accuser. If you are not able to provide a proof of national security threat from tiktok or dji, then don't treat it like it's a fact. All the "ifs" don't constitute as a proof.

New comment by glurblur in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

glurblur — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 05:23:22 +0000

Nah, I don't buy it. Chinese as plenty of programmers who can read code as well as you. This dude is literally dumping symbols. There's no proof that it's actually a backdoor.

New comment by glurblur in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

glurblur — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 05:06:15 +0000

I don't know which Chinese person you are talking about. I've never associated 小红书 with whatever Mao did back in the day. Hell, I don't think anyone I know made that connection. I only get that idea after watching a video made by a youtuber, who's not Chinese.

New comment by glurblur in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

glurblur — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 05:03:21 +0000

No 小红书 is literally not a TikTok replacement. The app is only very partially short form video, while most of the posts are more like pinterest. If you are talking about the recent UI changes that made it look like TikTok, I'm sorry to break it to you but I think that's just a coincident.

New comment by glurblur in "They just pirated my open source 8088 BIOS"

glurblur — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 22:34:36 +0000

My god. I would have hoped HN to have less bias and ignorance towards China. To be clear, im totally against the company pirating the BIOS and not attributing the author. But, the comments here regarding China just reads like r/geopolitics or r/wolrdnews.

Taking some classes on east asia doesn’t make you an expert on China. Watching a couple of YouTube videos doesn’t either. Not everything you hear in the west is absolutely true. Same goes for things you hear in China.

You don’t know the culture til you lived there. I didn’t understand American culture until I came to the US and lived for more than a decade here, yet western media is so prevalent in China and I thought I totally knew what the US was like before coming. I was so wrong.

Please go and explore the world with your own eyes. It’s really hard to read comments like these because they appear unbiased and true, but pretty far from reality.

Regarding how Chinese deals with IP, I will attribute it more towards laws and the enforcement of it. You simply don’t get punished for stealing IP until someone powerful sues you. IMO, better IP laws and enforcement will make most of these issues go away. Its not cultural