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[Sarex]

6 minutes ago, melkathi said:

I mean, that is a word noone in your country cares about, no?

Excuse you, but we are really passionate about Merry Poppins, or Marija Popic as she is better know until they westernized her.

[Wormerine]

6 minutes ago, Sarex said:

Excuse you, but we are really passionate about Merry Poppins, or Marija Popic as she is better know until they westernized her.

It's Mary Poppins BTW, unless there is a joke here I am missing. Thankfully, Polish translation didn't try to polishise character's name. I hate when they do that.

[Sarex]

20 minutes ago, Wormerine said:

It's Mary Poppins BTW, unless there is a joke here I am missing. Thankfully, Polish translation didn't try to polishise character's name. I hate when they do that.

The only joke was Marija Popic, made a mistake on the actual name. It's a common joke here in Serbia that most famous people in the world are just Serbs who changed their names to sound more western. For an example, Elon Muskovic.

[melkathi]

 

Reminds me of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GC_Q2YKNR0

[kanisatha]

20 hours ago, Sarex said:

Such is life. If I were to type some key words here, I would probably get banned instantly. Even though no one cares about them in my country. Wanna do business with a country respect their rules.

Except that Disney is (ostensibly) an American company. So, why China's rules?

[Sarex]

1 hour ago, kanisatha said:

Except that Disney is (ostensibly) an American company. So, why China's rules?

Because they want to do business there and because more than likely China has investments in the company. Why should Chinese companies care about the US rules, the answer is more than obvious.

[Mamoulian War]

17 hours ago, Sarex said:

Because they want to do business there and because more than likely China has investments in the company. Why should Chinese companies care about the US rules, the answer is more than obvious.

We can see how Chinese companies care about Western rules with TikTok

[Azdeus]

3 hours ago, Mamoulian War said:

We can see how Chinese companies care about Western rules with TikTok

Or just IP laws in general.

[HoonDing]

China must do as we say, not do as we do.

[marelooke]

On 1/1/2025 at 1:09 AM, Sarex said:

For an example, Elon Muskovic.

Not sure anyone would really want to claim that one at this point...

[Sarex]

21 hours ago, Mamoulian War said:

We can see how Chinese companies care about Western rules with TikTok

An example of rule breaking being? Collecting data? I mean tiktok is operating in EU still even though it's much more strict regarding user data than the US and I don't see it doing anything special compared to other social media app, other then not being owned by a western company.

17 hours ago, Azdeus said:

Or just IP laws in general.

It's a myth that China is somehow special regarding this, the US has engaged multiple time in corporate espionage and stealing of technology, from its allies even and it's not like they are the paragon of respecting other countries rules either. It all boils down to profits and the ability to enforce the rules, there is no "justice" just interests.

11 hours ago, marelooke said:

Not sure anyone would really want to claim that one at this point...

You would be surprised, people here are fascinated with Trump too.

Edited yesterday at 08:24 AM by Sarex

[Azdeus]

On 1/3/2025 at 9:11 AM, Sarex said:

It's a myth that China is somehow special regarding this, the US has engaged multiple time in corporate espionage and stealing of technology, from its allies even and it's not like they are the paragon of respecting other countries rules either. It all boils down to profits and the ability to enforce the rules, there is no "justice" just interests.

No, it's really not, disregarding what some governments do for a minute, there are several instances where companies have tried to sue Chineese companies for copyright or patent infringement and have been stonewalled by the government. In the rest of the world, these things happen all the time.

[Sarex]

1 hour ago, Azdeus said:

No, it's really not, disregarding what some governments do for a minute, there are several instances where companies have tried to sue Chineese companies for copyright or patent infringement and have been stonewalled by the government. In the rest of the world, these things happen all the time.

I am not familiar regarding the cases you are talking about (feel free to send me the links if it's not too much trouble, I would like to read about it), but if that was the case I would imagine those companies would be banned from selling to the west. There is a big push in the western news machine to promote China stealing IP (and I am not saying it doesn't, but I am trying to say that it isn't any worse than other countries), but I haven't actually seen any companies being charged or embargoed.

You have Huawei, but that was done for "security reasons" and certainly not because it was going to overtake all other companies in the communication market and now you have tiktok for "stealing" user data for which I still don't understand what the difference is when compared to google or facebook. I'm sure there are other entities that have embargoes but these are the bigger cases and I haven't found one for IP theft.

[Azdeus]

44 minutes ago, Sarex said:

I am not familiar regarding the cases you are talking about (feel free to send me the links if it's not too much trouble, I would like to read about it), but if that was the case I would imagine those companies would be banned from selling to the west. There is a big push in the western news machine to promote China stealing IP (and I am not saying it doesn't, but I am trying to say that it isn't any worse than other countries), but I haven't actually seen any companies being charged or embargoed.

You have Huawei, but that was done for "security reasons" and certainly not because it was going to overtake all other companies in the communication market and now you have tiktok for "stealing" user data for which I still don't understand what the difference is when compared to google or facebook. I'm sure there are other entities that have embargoes but these are the bigger cases and I haven't found one for IP theft.

https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/enforcement-and-protection/dispute-settlement/wto-dispute-settlement/wto-disputes-cases-involving-eu/wtds611-china-enforcement-intellectual-property-rights_en

Summary of the case

Since August 2020, Chinese courts have been issuing decisions – known as “anti-suit injunctions” – to exert pressure on EU companies with high-tech patents and to prevent them from rightfully protecting their technologies. Chinese courts also use the threat of heavy fines to deter European companies from going to foreign courts. This has left European high-tech companies at a significant disadvantage when fighting for their rights. Chinese manufacturers request these anti-suit injunctions to benefit from cheaper or even free access to European technology.

The European Union has filed on 18 February 2022 a dispute settlement case against China at the World Trade Organization (WTO) for restricting EU companies from going to a foreign court to protect and use their patents.

 

As for Tiktok, China is an enemy of the wests interests and values, the owners of the company are Chinese and as such the company must have CCP members on their board, which gives them direct access to private individuals data and atleast in the EU getting your data deleted is through our privacy laws would be pointless. I doubt anyone seriously argues that Facebook and Google doesn't collect data, but alteast the US isn't an enemy nation, for a few more weeks atleast.

[melkathi]

1 hour ago, Azdeus said:

 but alteast the US isn't an enemy nation, for a few more weeks atleast.

 

ROFL