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)

    • One2many@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Given how China just took all the money away from and sent to prison the CEO of evergrande, I’m starting to trust their apps more than american ones.

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        2 months ago

        The only reason that happened was because that CEO’s decisions lead to massive negative results in China’s real-estate sectors, which in turn cost the Chinese government a lot of money, and THAT is why that criminal actually saw consequences.

        Don’t take that as proof that China judges everyone fairly regardless of wealth/status. As long as you keep your crimes to an extent that it doesn’t cause a massive backlash on large swaths of the country, it’s a different ballgame.

        As others have said, you’d be wise to distrust both.

        • gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org
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          2 months ago

          As long as you keep your crimes to an extent that it doesn’t cause a massive backlash on large swaths of the country, it’s a different ballgame.

          actually that does sound kinda reasonable. what is a crime, if not defined by its negative consequences for the rest of the population?

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            2 months ago

            That’s not what he said. There’s a difference between crimes that can’t easily be traced to you and crimes that trigger outrage against you. China acts against the latter. Much of their consumer rights enforcement is about appeasement, not about actual rights, so you only see big action when there’s scandals about serious harm and people effectively being robbed. And you better not talk about it when it’s “done”.

      • Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de
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        2 months ago

        Because the problems aren’t with the businesses like it is in the US.

        They are with the government. Which can get much worse since there is no one to govern those.

        And in China, the government is in every app. It is by law.