return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours agoDuolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNotetechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square87fedilinkarrow-up1259arrow-down124
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minus-squareTankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-211 hours agoJust as I finally see Chinese culture gaining more global cultural relevance— and it had to be in order to bypass a ban of an intrusive app.
minus-squareByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 hours agoGotta rise up to that Firefly/Serenity lore.
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down9·7 hours agothe app wasn’t banned, the company refused to split American operations off.
minus-squareBronzebeard@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·5 hours ago… And because they refused, is now banned. So, yes it was.
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·3 hours agono, they were given the option. split into two companies close down operations in the US that’s pretty cut a dry they chose to end operations in the US. The US didn’t ban them.
minus-squareBronzebeard@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 hour agoThey banned them from operating in the US (unless certain criteria which kills their company were met) So yes, they were banned. How daft are you?
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-212 minutes agoso when other companies that refuse to adhere to labor laws in the US move their factories to other countries, are they banned?
minus-squareBronzebeard@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 minutes agoYou don’t seem to understand how this ban is being enforced, do you? Please sit down and let the adults talk.
Just as I finally see Chinese culture gaining more global cultural relevance— and it had to be in order to bypass a ban of an intrusive app.
Gotta rise up to that Firefly/Serenity lore.
the app wasn’t banned, the company refused to split American operations off.
… And because they refused, is now banned.
So, yes it was.
no, they were given the option.
that’s pretty cut a dry they chose to end operations in the US. The US didn’t ban them.
They banned them from operating in the US (unless certain criteria which kills their company were met)
So yes, they were banned. How daft are you?
so when other companies that refuse to adhere to labor laws in the US move their factories to other countries, are they banned?
You don’t seem to understand how this ban is being enforced, do you? Please sit down and let the adults talk.