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Today it’s Chinese citizens. Tomorrow they’ll tracking foreigners outside China’s boarders and they’ll be putting pressure on Apple, Delta, and other internatio
by rdlecler1 8y ago
Today it’s Chinese citizens. Tomorrow they’ll tracking foreigners outside China’s boarders and they’ll be putting pressure on Apple, Delta, and other international companies to fall in line as well.
- kirykl 8y agoIf Facebook can't legally do it, China has a competitive advantage, and US firms will start buying up that data for even less cost
- larkeith 8y agoConsidering they've already been known to pressure web services to remove anti-China sentiments, this is scarily possible.
- Jerry2 8y agoChina already does that. Twitter and Facebook regularly suspend dissidents' accounts when China asks them to do so. See [1] about Chinese billionaire who lives in the US and the ordeal he was put through. There's also a case of a Marriott Hotels employee who "liked a tweet" about Tibet and got fired for it after pressure from China [2]. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/world/asia/guo-wengui-chinese-billionaire-twitter.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/world/asia/guo-wengui-chi... [2] https://work.qz.com/1220881/marriott-hotels-fired-an-hourly-employee-for-liking-a-tweet-by-a-tibetan-separatist-group/ https://work.qz.com/1220881/marriott-hotels-fired-an-hourly-...