[xurias]

This is like...two decades too late. China has their fingers in everything now.

[dang]

Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN and post don't post nationalistic flamebait to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[xurias]

It's not unsubstantive or flamebait. It's fact. Chinese companies have been throwing a lot of money at Western companies for years, which gives the CCP a crazy amount of influence over wide swaths of the economy. But yeah, let's squabble over what's flamebait while the CCP slowly takes over the world.

[alecco]

On one hand, it’s refreshing to see this HN guideline and mods asking to follow it. On the other hand, you’d never, ever see anything like this in mainland China. Quite a conundrum.

Note: I’m “western” but far from US.

[afpx]

Like these personal data collection “ad tech” companies that are staffed by foreign nationals who send the data back to their homelands. Most Americans (not in tech) don’t get that there’s a dossier on everyone.

[afpx]

I guess I’m downvoted because it sounds far-fetched. Well, given that I work for one of these companies, I can say it’s true.