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That comment refers to JingWang not the OS. If you were an individual forced to install it you are added to a registry. If you live in a particular city, it is
by TkTech 7y ago
That comment refers to JingWang not the OS. If you were an individual forced to install it you are added to a registry. If you live in a particular city, it is mandatory. If you are part of a particular minority, it is mandatory. Refusing to install it or prove its installation if your national identity is in the registry is a crime and you wil be arrested.
Beijing is not Kashgar. Many Chinese will experience relative freedom and others live in city-sized prisons.
- dis-sys 7y agoThis article and thread is about pre-installed Linux on some recently announced laptops. Could you please stop trying to politicize everything in every possible way?
- SmellyGeekBoy 7y agoMuch as I also grow tired of the constant shoehorning of China into every single conversation here, in this instance Lenovo is a Chinese company so it's at least somewhat relevant.
- baq 7y agoOTOH how is it possible to ignore politics if technology makes politics possible, with the earliest examples being fire and the wheel?
- robdachshund 7y agoWhy are you telling this to a someone at the bottom of a comment chain about china instead of the comment that started it?