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You're doing liberty and democracy a disservice with your whataboutism. It's one thing to suspect your government of sneakily compromising hardware, another to
by Kenji 9y ago
You're doing liberty and democracy a disservice with your whataboutism. It's one thing to suspect your government of sneakily compromising hardware, another to receive official letters to install a surveillance app or be detained. Of course both are despicable, but they are not in the same league.
EDIT: I'm surprised about how many people jump to the defense of the Chinese government here on HN. Seems in stark contrast with the usual political opinion of the crowd. I can only ascribe this phenomenon to massive cultural relativism.
- Dylan16807 9y ago> It's one thing to suspect your government of sneakily compromising hardware, another to receive official letters to install a surveillance app or be detained. Suspicions are of course lesser. But sneakily compromising hardware is worse then officially compromising hardware! > defense That comment ain't a defense.
- buttcake 9y agoI argue that you're doing them a disservice by not aknowledging them as the same thing and pointing fingers. Probably not all people from that area have the gps on non-stop with facebook and google accounts signed in non-stop to receive those goody notifications. What do you do in that case if you're the government ?
- hnbroseph 9y agoprobably because more people are exhausted by the neocon/neolib 'dirty commie' attitude.