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Nobody seems to notice that it should not matter at all how accurate exactly the information Wikimedia contains, because it has no relation to the role they can
by viktorcode 5y ago
Nobody seems to notice that it should not matter at all how accurate exactly the information Wikimedia contains, because it has no relation to the role they can fulfil at WIPO.
China blocks the application, citing irrelevant info. Then other countries dismiss those irrelevant accusations as false. It seems the future of WIPO is to become irrelevant UN body.
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- matheusmoreira 5y ago> It seems the future of WIPO is to become irrelevant UN body. I certainly hope so!
- hilbert42 5y agoI can't agree more.
- fennecfoxen 5y agoChina does this across the whole UN. You can’t bring your high school club to visit without appeasing the censors, who will check that the school and its clubs have never blogged mentioning Taiwan as anything other than a “province of China.” China is on the security council so this will never change. The UN will implode first. https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/china-makes-sure-everyone-writes-taiwans-name-just-soeven-a-colorado-high-school-11631304386 https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/china-makes-sure-everyone-w...
- int_19h 5y agoTo be fair, this is just one of the many examples of UNSC being broken by design. In a similar vein, US tends to use its veto indiscriminately to cover up for Israel, and Russia does the same for its client states and allies.
- ethbr0 5y agoThat's the entire point of the Security Council -- to allow states with the most powerful militaries and nuclear weapons to exert greater influence. To create another system would be to risk irrelevance due to the mismatch between actual military power and UN power. It sucks when it leads to states using that power, but the alternative is more wars and potentially nuclear weapons use.
- int_19h 5y agoThat's the entire point of the Security Council veto. Note that there are other, rotating members on it, which do not have the veto power. In principle, all members could be like that. I understand that UNSC is the way it is because that's the only way to actually get the power players to participate. That doesn't make it any less broken.
- GoblinSlayer 5y agoEverything is broken because there's no perfection?
- fennecfoxy 5y agoHey we have the same uname almost uwu
- FridayoLeary 5y agoThey will be joining a long list of irrelevant UN bodies...
- coldacid 5y agoSuch as the United Nations.
- Blikkentrekker 5y agoI think people expect the U.N. to be an advocate for their visions of the world. The U.N.'s primary purpose is simply to minimize the occurrence of war, especially nuclear war, not to spread any particular political ideology across the world such as “freedom and democracy”. In this particular case it allows China a conduit to achieve what it wants to without firing nuclear missiles.
- krageon 5y agoIt is in essence the triumph of words over violence, which is never a bad thing. It sucks if your words do not win, but it is better than your family dying and then not winning anyway.
- Blikkentrekker 5y agoIndeed, the purpose of te U.N. is not that conflicts be resolved in whatever direction some poster on Hacker News wishes it, but that they be resolved, or not resolved at all, without resorting to violence.
- fuckchina 5y agoWith China holding such power in UN, the UN would just getting more irrelevant as the time goes by.