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I don't think the CCP cares about an obscure American social network. They know they have a dependency on American software & software distribution mechanisms,
by muricula 6y ago
I don't think the CCP cares about an obscure American social network. They know they have a dependency on American software & software distribution mechanisms, & have known far longer than Parler has been around.
- impalallama 6y agoThat's a good point. They probably want their own Github as much to control it but also so they won't suffer consequences from embargos like when Iran was blocked just recently
- mschip 6y agoThe obscure American social network is not the interesting bit of information. It's that the infrastructure and delivery corporations decided overnight not to support a customer for not aligning with their values.
- muricula 6y agoI don't think that the CCP had this sudden realization recently the same way many HN posters seem to have.
- sudosysgen 6y agoThis is why China used the GFW to grow Alibaba Cloud, Tencent, WeChat and more that provide more than sufficient infrastructure and delivery, from servers to payment processors, and currently has almost-good-enough alternatives for the silicon down to the foundry level.