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What about the US-based companies that are fully beholden to any and everything that the US government wants from them, without any checks and balances (as has

What about the US-based companies that are fully beholden to any and everything that the US government wants from them, without any checks and balances (as has been proven by Snowden, Assange, etc.)? Please stop with the Sinophobia already https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/9/11/sinophobia-the-new-islamophobia https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/9/11/sinophobia-the-...

lrvick 5y ago
There are many great reasons to not trust US companies with our data. I for one choose not to in most cases. Hell even the California DMV sells emails and home addresses now. (I only give them a P.O. box) American apathy on data privacy has created some real monsters, but those monsters are not comparable to the CCP. Calling it Sinophobia dismisses it as an irrational fear. It is largely undisputed that the CCP dragnet tracks, manipulates, and censors the most minutiae of details to actively shape and control the culture of billions of people while also disappearing millions that don't conform to be tortured and killed in concentration camps. It should be assumed any product operating under CCP rule will at some point be covertly used to further the surveillance dominance of the CCP. It is possible to have great respect for the Chinese people and their rich history and culture while also having a very healthy fear for giving the CCP more ways to extend their culture control goals beyond their borders. TikTok has already been been caught censoring CCP criticism: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-how-tiktok-censors-videos-that-do-not-please-beijing https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-...
- beckman466 5y ago
  All of this is easy to say for someone living on the 'other side of Imperialism', as Vijay Prashad beautifully says: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcX2O47NZuc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcX2O47NZuc I take issue with everything you've written. You somehow still believe the words you use are themselves evidence (and it's obvious they originate from western media firms who manufacture consent - it impacts you (unconsciously) even if you consider yourself very progressive/leftist). Who controls the world through financial imperialism? It isn't China. Seriously, please consider a few of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2khAmMTAjI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2khAmMTAjI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJLA2_Ho7X0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJLA2_Ho7X0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fahWWm7uVW8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fahWWm7uVW8
  - GaryTang 5y ago
    You are linking videos to people that are celebrating the 100th anniversary of communist China. What am I missing?

lrvick 5y ago

There are many great reasons to not trust US companies with our data. I for one choose not to in most cases. Hell even the California DMV sells emails and home addresses now. (I only give them a P.O. box) American apathy on data privacy has created some real monsters, but those monsters are not comparable to the CCP. Calling it Sinophobia dismisses it as an irrational fear. It is largely undisputed that the CCP dragnet tracks, manipulates, and censors the most minutiae of details to actively shape and control the culture of billions of people while also disappearing millions that don't conform to be tortured and killed in concentration camps. It should be assumed any product operating under CCP rule will at some point be covertly used to further the surveillance dominance of the CCP. It is possible to have great respect for the Chinese people and their rich history and culture while also having a very healthy fear for giving the CCP more ways to extend their culture control goals beyond their borders. TikTok has already been been caught censoring CCP criticism: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-how-tiktok-censors-videos-that-do-not-please-beijing https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-...

beckman466 5y ago
All of this is easy to say for someone living on the 'other side of Imperialism', as Vijay Prashad beautifully says: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcX2O47NZuc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcX2O47NZuc I take issue with everything you've written. You somehow still believe the words you use are themselves evidence (and it's obvious they originate from western media firms who manufacture consent - it impacts you (unconsciously) even if you consider yourself very progressive/leftist). Who controls the world through financial imperialism? It isn't China. Seriously, please consider a few of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2khAmMTAjI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2khAmMTAjI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJLA2_Ho7X0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJLA2_Ho7X0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fahWWm7uVW8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fahWWm7uVW8
- GaryTang 5y ago
  You are linking videos to people that are celebrating the 100th anniversary of communist China. What am I missing?