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Xi, Putin, MBS, Kim, and now Modi have assassinated critics in countries with free speech protections (UK, US, Canada).

• gigatexal 3y ago
  > You can even insult them. Maybe not with someone else’s money, but go ahead and put up a website. We have video games like Fuck Putin (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1926680/FUCK_PUTIN/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1926680/FUCK_PUTIN/) does that count? I’d sure put up a single page html site calling all the above listed as autocrats with blood on their hands but I too fear what might befall me physically or professionally. So much Chinese money flows into the west especially here in Berlin and Germany in general. Imagine I put up a site that said President Xi is a a despot and looks like a certain bear and word got to my would be employers at BMW and they thought my words would threaten their ability to sell cars in China I wouldn’t be offered the job, that’s for sure. So, even though I am nobody, I’m still too afraid to really speak out.
  • jstarfish 3y ago
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  • pySSK 3y ago
    > So, even though I am nobody, I’m still too afraid to really speak out. Did you read about the Harvard and Columbia law students who had their job offers rescinded because they signed a letter critical of Israel’s actions?
    • lotsofpulp 3y ago
      The letter was severely lacking in tact. No employer cared they were critical of Israel, but the timing of the letter was obviously going to raise eyebrows. I would expect the same reaction if right after 9/11, a group released a statement saying the US brought the attack on itself.
      • gigatexal 3y ago
        Yeah I’m thinking I’ll keep my thoughts on MBS killing an American journalist and Putin being insane and Xi being an existential threat to both his people and liberal democracies the world over and the blood on Modi’s hands as he turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to Muslims being slaughtered by Hindus in Gujarat while he was head of that state not to mention his ties to the Hindu gestapo the RSS, to myself. I am far too dependent on being employable to be able to say what I think without consequence. I’m not rich enough to be able to be free enough to do that.
• lotsofpulp 3y ago
  Sure, that is a problem, but has nothing to do with the technical abilities to criticize them and reach a global audience. Assassinating people in other countries is a military/defense issue and has nothing to do with a specific company not wanting to pay for content criticizing them.
  • glenstein 3y ago
    Sorry, but, what? The party not wanting to pay for content and the party wanting to proceed with assassinations are one in the same. And the latter translates into pressure against the former. So I'm not sure how you think there are two things here that can be taxonomized into independent issues that don't touch each other. Edit in response to the reply: presumably it's the Chinese market that is not interested in paying for content that criticizes them. But if you want to make this about Apple, then I just reiterate that the parties in this case are entangled in ways that can't be coherently taxonomized into independent subjects that are understood as being completely unrelated to each other. If a company bringing shows to market in a country, and the countries willingness to assassinate critics, are subjects you view as unrelated, then, to use your term, our models of the world are probably too different to productively communicate.
    • lotsofpulp 3y ago
      In the context of this thread, if you consider Apple and country governments around the world one and the same, then our models of the world are too different to productively converse.
• deadbolt 3y ago
  Which critics of Xi were assassinated?
• glenstein 3y ago
  Not that I disagree, but can you say more about Xi?
• c0nducktr 3y ago
  Which persons has Xi had assassinated? He was first name in your reply. I assume you have some evidence right? Cite your sources.