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When will the meme that hating an organ harvesting totalitarian government == racism die?

crazygringo 6y ago
So explain to me -- since Zoom is not a Chinese company, then what's the purpose of falsely claiming that it is? If it isn't meant to tap into some kind of prejudice against Chinese people, then what is the purpose of spreading false rumors like that? You can of course be against the Chinese government. But when you start fearmongering that a public American company is "actually Chinese", "more than commonly discussed"... based on zero evidence except that the company has a lot of Chinese people... then if it's not meant to trigger veiled racism, what is it meant to trigger otherwise? Since, again, Zoom is not part of and has nothing to do with the Chinese government, except for when it obeys the government in its operations within China, like every other American company has to do too.
- Medicalidiot 6y ago
  >Zoom's product development team is largely based in China The main players are under CCP command. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Video_Communications#Workforce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Video_Communications#Work...
  - crazygringo 6y ago
    A company's "main players" are its board and senior management. "Under command" means they report to someone. Can you please explain how you think the board members and management of Zoom -- an American publicly traded company -- report to the CCP? Because that is certainly not what your Wikipedia link says.
    - redis_mlc 6y ago
      The CCP has access to most of Zoom's developers, so they can direct them to do anything at any time. Zoom's filings disclose that in fact.
    - Medicalidiot 6y ago
      >A company's "main players" are its board and senior management Ah I see that we have different definitions of main players. I'm thinking of developers who are able to mess with the code. But the Wikipedia does support what my definition of main players means. Just because the board doesn't report to CCP doesn't mean that someone significant in the 700 isn't an assent of the CCP and able to do significant damage.

So explain to me -- since Zoom is not a Chinese company, then what's the purpose of falsely claiming that it is? If it isn't meant to tap into some kind of prejudice against Chinese people, then what is the purpose of spreading false rumors like that? You can of course be against the Chinese government. But when you start fearmongering that a public American company is "actually Chinese", "more than commonly discussed"... based on zero evidence except that the company has a lot of Chinese people... then if it's not meant to trigger veiled racism, what is it meant to trigger otherwise? Since, again, Zoom is not part of and has nothing to do with the Chinese government, except for when it obeys the government in its operations within China, like every other American company has to do too.

Medicalidiot 6y ago
>Zoom's product development team is largely based in China The main players are under CCP command. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Video_Communications#Workforce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Video_Communications#Work...
- crazygringo 6y ago
  A company's "main players" are its board and senior management. "Under command" means they report to someone. Can you please explain how you think the board members and management of Zoom -- an American publicly traded company -- report to the CCP? Because that is certainly not what your Wikipedia link says.
  - redis_mlc 6y ago
    The CCP has access to most of Zoom's developers, so they can direct them to do anything at any time. Zoom's filings disclose that in fact.
  - Medicalidiot 6y ago
    >A company's "main players" are its board and senior management Ah I see that we have different definitions of main players. I'm thinking of developers who are able to mess with the code. But the Wikipedia does support what my definition of main players means. Just because the board doesn't report to CCP doesn't mean that someone significant in the 700 isn't an assent of the CCP and able to do significant damage.