• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world
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    China didn’t even let US apps and sites in in the first place though. Hell they don’t even have TikTok but a different app. They straight copied Google with Baidu, Amazon with Alibaba, and same for so many others. Never allowed Facebook nor Twitter. Then they complain when the US debate whether to limit theirs operating here a decade or more later. Meanwhile china has hacked and stolen an insane amount of IP including full on fighter jet designs. And are the highest source of hacking by far, as they have been for a decade. This is a weak argument based in ignorance. I guess that’s to be expected from a self proclaimed token boomer

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      Ignorance, huh?

      Long before the United States began accusing other countries of stealing ideas, the U.S. government encouraged intellectual piracy to catch up with England’s technological advances. According to historian Doron Ben-Atar, in his bookTrade Secrets, “the United States emerged as the world’s industrial leader by illicitly appropriating mechanical and scientific innovations from Europe.” Source

      Maybe use facts and sources instead of personal attacks, they tend to hold up better over time.

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        Yes. You just change to England now? Because you have no rebuttal on china and all those things I stated aren’t like new news that I gotta go pull up sources for you.

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          Hypocrisy (noun):

          **: **a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not **: **behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel

          America did it first; rebuttal?

          Nuh-uh…

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            go work or live in china maybe? I have. Fucking dystopian there. It’s about time the US stops letting them steal everything from US and steal everything from their neighbors. Or take a look at Vietnam, where I’ve also lived, who has like 200% import tax. Or what about china’s massive currency manipulation to undercut everyone. There’s some hypocrisy. Yes US does fucked up shit. But your post is more of the same ol murikuh bad china good bull

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              Oh, so this isn’t actually about intellectual property, but the anecdotal evidence that you had some bad dim sum once?

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                  You personally attacked my ignorance. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Or, is this a case of the pot calling the kettle black?

                  Attack the argument, not the person.

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        China’s a person? I thought it was a nation, and you said personal attacks. Sounds like you’re a little salty about China being a shitstained leech of a country.