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Oh no! They might block US tech companies from doing business in China unless they comply with draconian authoritarianism. Everyone in tech knows China has been
by redisman 7y ago
Oh no! They might block US tech companies from doing business in China unless they comply with draconian authoritarianism. Everyone in tech knows China has been completely outrageous in its treatment of US companies for decades.
- darepublic 7y agoThey actually have porn viewing history of individual North Americans and they will start publishing it.
- 0_gravitas 7y agoCool, maybe that might actually encourage your average layperson to be a little more aware of the stakes of privacy-related laws and measures.
- dgzl 7y agoThankfully we're in an age where shaming is shameful.
- throwawaysea 7y agoSource?
- irrational 7y agoMaybe 15 years ago that would've been a threat, but today? Unless we are talking about child porn, or some kind of snuff porn, I don't think many people will care. Then again, it would be easy to claim that whatever china says I watched is not true.
- dageshi 7y agoI don't honestly think people would give a damn so long as the porn was legal.
- TaylorAlexander 7y agoI feel like they can leak a bunch of accurate histories and then for certain people they want to harm they can add a little bit of child porn to the logs so most people believe the logs are accurate but some key people get accused of being pedophiles. Electronic warfare is weird.
- bena 7y agoLet me ask you a question, do you think you're more or less clever than most people?
- thrower123 7y agoA lot of key people have been accused of being pedophiles, and in league with a person running an underaged sex trafficking ring, complete with a bizarre tropical pedophile island. Nothing happened - the person who could tie it all together was suicided in his jail cell, and the evidence obtained is doubtless consigned to the same dusty warehouse where the Top Men are keeping the Ark of the Covenant...
- TaylorAlexander 7y agoTop people wouldn't be brought down but middle level people can be ruined by this because there is no media protection. It could be part of an operation to take down an unsympathetic individual and replace them with a sympathetic one. Of course this is all purely speculative so none of it matters. I just think we live in a weird time. I agree that for many people the media kills the story and we're all expected to move on, and we all play a part in that.
- bluGill 7y agoHow am I to know it is accurate though? I can write up a "log" of all the porn you watched over the last year right now - the hard part is doing a little research to figure out where you live and get some idea of your likely travel. The log will be all faked, but when it is my word against yours... I doubt you even have logs of your real activity to counter with and so my logs will be pretty damming evidence.
- avocado4 7y agoAlso Grindr is Chinese-owned. An TikTok. Lots of people uploading nude content that CCP can deidentify.
- theflyinghorse 7y agoLet's be real who cares what Joe jerked off to? Not me. I will even say that maybe someone will build some universal porn recommendation out of such a data set.
- bena 7y agoI've witnessed the porn viewing history of individuals in a goddamn Applebee's. What are we going to learn? People like to jerk it?
- nicoburns 7y agoIf they removed US access to Chinese supply chains, it'd be a pretty big deal for the US... that might even start a war.
- redisman 7y agoEconomic Mutually Assured Destruction?
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- patagurbon 7y agoHardly. Mutually Assured Damage, with the US clearly coming out on top. There are plenty of other places to make cheap goods, even disregarding increasing automation. There are not as many places to sell cheap goods by the trillions.
- semiotagonal 7y agoIn the long term, it isn't even necessarily damage. Chinese manufacturing won't be cheap forever; wages are already too high there for them to continue sorting through and recycling the US's plastic. Rebooting US manufacturing earlier rather than later will make the transition to "expensive China" less of a jolt.
- shkkmo 7y agoMoving manufacturing out of China is not synonymous with moving manufacturing into the US. A great deal of that manufacturing would move to other countries with cheap labor and burgeoning supply chains.
- TaylorAlexander 7y agoI wouldn't underestimate the quality of the supply chains in China. They've had decades of development and experience, and starting elsewhere could not be done without significant setbacks.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoMicrosoft does a lot of biz in China, they might be affected by this, though they have worked harder than most to maintain a good relationship with the government.
- perseusprime11 7y agoIn the current environment, these "good relationships" don't matter much. They will be used as pawns in the larger scheme.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoMaybe? I asked this question once at an all hands 5 or 6 years ago, and the answer I got was that the Chinese government liked having an example of a western company it had a good relationship with. Turning on even companies mostly friendly to it would be a very harsh precedent, though I wouldn’t put it past the CPC.
- perseusprime11 7y agoA lot changed in the last 6 years. China like no other country is rising and fast becoming a global power. It may not be a problem if they were a democracy or used unnecessary means to steal the IP of US companies.
- thereare5lights 7y agoI doubt that retaliation would be restricted to US tech companies.
- chaostheory 7y agoI think they block US companies regardless of whether or not they’re willing to self censor. Facebook is one example
- ninth_ant 7y agoIt could be massively disruptive to Apple, for example, if they chose to block production or sales. Sure it could hurt China as well but that’s what happens in trade wars.