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No, they're pro-people-who-call-themselves-Communist-and-also-have-a-lot-of-geopolitical-power-and-market-share. China is most certainly a capitalist state thro
by uoaei 6y ago
No, they're pro-people-who-call-themselves-Communist-and-also-have-a-lot-of-geopolitical-power-and-market-share. China is most certainly a capitalist state through and through, and Google is a money-grubbing company whose sole motive is profit. It really isn't hard to talk about these things in frank terms without resorting to silly culture-war-style name-calling.
- joobus 6y agoChina is communist. You can invent long, hyphenated euphemisms all you want.
- uoaei 6y agoHey, I can also make unsubstantiated claims on public fora. China is not communist.
- packet_nerd 6y agoChina has a stock market [1] and 389 billionaires [2], second only to the US. A decidedly un-communist state of affairs... In reality they are an authoritarian capitalist surveillance state. [1] http://english.sse.com.cn/ http://english.sse.com.cn/ [2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2020/04/08/the-countries-with-the-most-billionaires-in-2020/#478db8e84429 https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2020/04/08/the...
- WilliamEdward 6y agoNot even the most anti-china, anti-communist person in the world operating on half a brain cell would call china communist. How are you buying things from china with capital if they're communist?
- antepodius 6y agoEh. Eventually monopolist/oligarchical capitalism and top-down socialism become isomorphic to each other.
- gridlockd 6y agoGoogle left the mainland Chinese market long ago and all of its services are blocked there. The most likely explanation is that some mainlander inside Google has been pushing for this with the "this is racist and hurting the feelings of the Chinese people" argument.
- gerbal 6y agoOr one of the business units of the CCP is putting lateral pressure on Google. Or an organized CCP/PLA operation to mass report the term.
- uoaei 6y agoWhat a strange thing to say on a public forum, when we can just use Google to find information that directly contradicts your claim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China#2016%E2%80%93present:_Attempts_to_come_back_to_mainland_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China#2016%E2%80%93pres... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(search_engine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(search_engine)
- gridlockd 6y ago> ...we can just use Google to find information that directly contradicts your claim. Not really. Google hasn't returned to the mainland market. Youtube is blocked. That little bit of developer interaction or Project Dragonfly - whatever its state may be - does not contradict that. If you believe this sort of censorship is ordered from the top in order to get back into the mainland market, that's fine. I still prefer my explanation.