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Do they (Microsoft/Apple/whoever) really have much of a choice? The alternative would likely be that their products end up banned if they don’t satisfy the gove
by neilalexander 5y ago
Do they (Microsoft/Apple/whoever) really have much of a choice? The alternative would likely be that their products end up banned if they don’t satisfy the government. Not really a China-specific problem either — strikes me that the same would be true in many countries.
- smoldesu 5y agoI mean, they do have an option. Companies like Google, Netflix and parts of Amazon are completely unavailable in China. Their option is to not be complicit in data collection for their oppressive government, but greed and disrespect for user privacy usually triumphs.
- sidibe 5y agoFunnily, Google has gotten way more flak for China on here than MS because of Project Dragonfly, a little secret project that was testing the waters of going back in with search (that got squelched by their employees as soon as they found about it) while Bing has been fully accessible in China to this day
- t0mas88 5y agoGoogle doesn't like collecting data for the Chinese government, but at the same time they collect everything they can get their hands on for their own benefit. And let's not forget that the US government has access to Google's data. They just promise not to use it against US citizens, which is both a lie and not very helpful to let's say Europeans.
- smoldesu 5y agoThe US government has access to everyone's data, including (but not limited to) Apple, Microsoft and Amazon's data. This is not really a surprise.