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Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Oh? More spyware than GM selling your data to your insurance company? More spyware than all of the stuff your smartphone collects?

It's absolutely a bad faith argument to say we can't have Chinese cars because they conduct industry standard data scraping.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The whataboutism doesn’t help. It’s a wrong practice regardless of nationality. But since the house and senate is bought by the corporations, at the very least ban those who you can.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's not a whataboutism when that's the other choice. This isn't out of left field. I can buy Chinese data scraping, Japanese data scraping, Korean data scraping, German data scraping, or American data scraping.

    Right now Germany actually wins that contest because GDPR just might have an impact.

    A whataboutism would be me talking about American labor practices in farming. Not great, but also not relevant.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I agree. If this were actually addressing the problem in question (bad faith actors harvesting data) then sure, but it isn't really because the other options are still suffering from the same problem. If anything, this entire discussion is a whataboutism to avoid talking about how more electric cars lets us phase out the ice ones.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I wasn't going to go there because projection is, unfortunately, very effective at making the other party look immature when they correctly call you on it. But yes the entire discussion of data harvesting is a whataboutism. It's not relevant unless someone stops doing it.

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