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by _lsq 6y ago
The standard shouldn't be any different and that's precisely the problem here: * NSA is a governmental agency that by construction is tied to the state. Bytedance, Huawai and Tencent are privately owned companies in China and all
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by _lsq 6y ago
Do you have source for this? Huawei sued but we haven't heard any updates on that yet.
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by _lsq 6y ago
These are all valid reasons for concerns yet these do not qualify as proof of wrongdoing from Huawai. For 2) specifically, I'm not sure it would be helpful to declare all private companies started by veterans as "sharing deep ties
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by _lsq 6y ago
I think it's not very productive to discuss if one form of atrocity is worse than the other. It's terrible that we have to compare them at all. Just like I wouldn't blame US's actions in the middle east on Amazon/Go
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by _lsq 6y ago
What does ByteDance has to do with the persecution of Uighurs more than what Amazon/Google/Microsoft has to do with the killing in Iraq/Iran/Middle East incurred by the US? I don't have evidence for the latter but i
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by _lsq 6y ago
The statement "they have implicit and explicit support from the Chinese government" is really indistinguishable from "the problem is they are Chinese".
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by _lsq 6y ago
I'm definitely not saying that the Chinese government is in anyway a good example worthy of our compliments. That discussion however is off topic here. If the US were prepared to backtrack on its reputation as the leader of free market
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by _lsq 6y ago
No. The grandparent addresses exactly this point. When Google entered the Chinese search market it was competing fairly with local players: both Baidu and Google have to accept the (authoritarian) rule that they need to censor their search
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by _lsq 6y ago
Yes, the closest example would be Huawai in this case but the lack of uniformly enforced rules is deafening. If US were to decide that all telecom equipment used in the US must be produced by domestic companies then that's fair enough.
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by _lsq 6y ago
No it's not "exactly this". The Chinese government sets their (extremely authoritarian) rules on censorship for companies to legally operate in China but the rules apply to everyone equally. Chinese companies of course have t
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by _lsq 6y ago
No it's not. The Chinese government sets their (extremely authoritarian) rules on censorship for companies to legally operate in China but the rules apply to everyone equally. Chinese companies of course have to comply, but foreign com