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I can think of the WHO, John Cena's Twitter apology, Blizzard, the NBA, and Apple, but what else is there?

• boba-men 5y ago
  You make it sounds like that's not enough? WHO in of itself would be extremely troubling. And its not just Apple, MANY fortune 500 companies have agreed to comply with authoritarian policies to do business in China.
  • fouric 5y ago
    My apologies, I was being a little bit tongue-in-cheek (which didn't come through as clearly as I hoped) while also genuinely soliciting more items for my list.
• midasuni 5y ago
  Aqueducts?
• adventured 5y ago
  Hollywood - the movie industry more broadly - is also mostly gone now. They're all cowards, terrified of doing or saying anything critical of China (for exactly the same reason the NBA is, fear of losing the China market). They should be at the forefront of being critical of an illiberal superpower, given their supposed ideological leanings as an industry. Instead they're hiding in the back of the room, they'll be the last to say anything.
  • lelandfe 5y ago
    I don’t think this should surprise anyone. Hollywood has no ideological anything beyond “make more money,” and for some franchises China is not just a market - it’s the market. The Transformers series especially wound up being money printing machines in China. Even overlooking the pressure China doubtlessly applies to Hollywood, the execs greenlighting scripts would have to start hating money to approve anything that jeopardizes revenue from Chinese theaters.
• voldacar 5y ago
  Superhero movies, and hollywood in general