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You care about Chinese government’s censorship, but you don’t care about privacy from multinational corporations and governments?
by deno 10y ago
You care about Chinese government’s censorship, but you don’t care about privacy from multinational corporations and governments?
- xenophonf 10y agoFalse equivalence - the one has nothing to do with the other.
- deno 10y agoThey do, if you take a moralistic attitude, as op has. It’s hypocrisy. If you just don’t care about Chinese market then say so—don’t pretend you do so out of a moral obligation.
- xenophonf 10y agoYou're making assumptions about the beliefs of OP that aren't in evidence. A "moralistic attitude" (as you put it) can give greater weight to concerns about government censorship than to concerns about corporate respect for privacy rights. The two are quite different, even to an avowed anti-statist such as myself.
- deno 10y agoThat’s why I stated it as a question. I still think it’s hypocrisy to care about one and not the other. Those corporations are actually actively working to erode Internet freedoms, which affects everyone, not just a single country, and one that is not even democratic in the first place. To get on your high horse over censorship in Asia while at the same time merrily include spying in your own code, as a simple convenience, nonetheless, is very much indefensible.
- christophilus 10y agoWho says he/she doesn't care about privacy from multinational corporations? I care about both.
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoWell, he seems to be defending the practice of using CDN libraries, and the article talks about how this practice, which he says he won't change, invades user privacy.
- klibertp 10y agoThis is a very strange comment. First, there is no indication that GP doesn't care about the other things you mention. But more importantly: why don't you care about Chinese government's censorship? Are you saying that the censorship is OK because multinational corporations doing something? How is it even related? It may not be your intention, but you appear to be defending the practice of censorship and demanding others to share your disinterest in the matter. That won't work, not because google and fb tracking everything on the web is good, but because censorship is bad. EDIT: I'd like to know what made my downvoters do their thing?
- deno 10y agoHosting your assets locally is not “supporting censorship.”