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China Bans Free Text Editor Notepad++(pcmag.com)
4 points by abc-xyz 6y ago|0 comments
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Having everything locked behind a single App Store is the perfect way for the government to enforce bans without building a “great firewall”. It’s no coincidence that a few days after Trump signed an executive order to ban TikTok/WeCha
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
I think the timing is very unfortunate. Shortly after Trump’s executive order targeting Tencent and ByteDance (hopefully with more to come) then Epic (heavily backed by Tencent) launch an attack against Apple. Tinfoil hat on: Apple is proba
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
> In fact, Apple has provided a freely accessible API to its podcast directory that anyone can use without asking Apple’s permission. Have you tried using it? I haven’t myself but your comment made me google it quickly, and as far as I c
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Does that mean western organizations will finally stop censoring western people living in western countries? Will they finally stop banning people for voicing support for democracy in Hong Kong? Or for condemning concentration camps in Xinj
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
> ByteDance has had a party committee since 2017 and is headed by CCP secretary and company editor-in-chief Zhang Fuping (張輔評), reported Human Rights Watch. Members of the committee hold regular gatherings at which they study speeches by
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
It’s no secret that the EU want to achieve technological sovereignty. It seems like it would be a good thing if you didn’t have these billion-user social networks, operated by foreign entities that are likely to use them to spread propagand
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
I might be misunderstanding the author but when I go to flight booking websites (such as google flights) then I have to select start + end destination + date(s). I usually only get back 10-20 results in total, but even if they did return mo
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
The most dystopian place in the world (VICE reporters undercover: https://youtube.com/watch?v=v7AYyUqrMuQ ).
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
These boycotts have limited impact, or rather, their impact can be explained away by blaming other factors (see Blizzard, Disney, etc). This makes it a lot easier for companies to engage in this political marketing (lgbtq+/blm/etc
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Are you against executive orders in general or just this one? Because surely one of the most popular social media platforms in the world, operated by the enemy, with access to troves of personal user data that can be used for election inter
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
There’s to my knowledge only been an increased anti-China sentiment, which is understandable since they’ve become the nazis of our century. I don’t support anyone getting beaten up no matter what crimes they’ve committed, but I do support i
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
But we should also strive not to cherry-pick what kind of discrimination to report just because a specific country is good at crying racism. The discrimination against Asians (as people tend to assume any Asian they see is from China) was h
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
We (un)fortunately haven’t invented time travel.
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Meanwhile in a China, foreigners (white/black people) are being kicked out of their homes and forced to sleep on the street, restaurants (including a McDonald’s) are refusing to serve foreign customers, foreigners are refused entry to
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
It’s worth pointing out that it was dangerous for him to highlight the bad parts of China while he was still living there. In one of his videos he mentioned that during his time in China he had recorded a lot of footage but he was understan
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
But if war is inevitable then better it occur sooner rather than later (as the CCP are becoming evermore powerful and aggressive). Imagine how much death could’ve been prevented if the world had stood up to Hitler earlier. Tibet, Hong Kong,
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Would be great if it was possible to filter based on the clothes origin. I believe this could appeal to many users, for instance, r/AvoidChineseProducts ( https://old.reddit.com/r/avoidchineseproducts/ ) has be
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Biden Says He Will End Trump’s Tariffs on Chinese-Made Goods(forbes.com)
2 points by abc-xyz 6y ago|0 comments
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Key point is ByteDance as a whole (I haven’t been able to find anything to indicate that TikTok itself is profitable), which happens to be a privately held company. ByteDance’s CEO have also gone on record saying they had a “weak” implement
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
It does because these Uyghurs are subjected to hard labor where they’re producing goods for Nike, Gap, H&M, Amazon, Puma, etc. It’s a lot harder to look past these things when you know they’re happening (similarly to how it’s hard for f
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
When are these countries going to start boycotting China? USA under Trump is quite frankly the only western country that has taken meaningful action to stand up to China. USA also benefits from the fact that it’s a democracy (admittedly a v
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Name one western country that have elected an anti-China government and say why you think their opinion/action towards China had any influence on them willing the election. I’m guessing you can’t, because quite frankly, USA is the only
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
I would say it proves my point. Most people couldn’t care less about what happens outside their borders unless the country responsible also do things that impact their life. No on gives a damn when North Korea starve its citizens to death,
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
I’m afraid you’re mistaken. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter . There are also many western countries that don’t have a problem with police brutality and racially motivated violence against black people w
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Twitter was thinking: “a free video sharing app is crazy expensive.. we’re burning all our capital on an app that will be near impossible to profit from.” TikTok is as far as I can tell not profitable either, and they’ve been burning hundre
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
TikTok is as far as I know not profitable. There’s a limit how much investor money you can burn on an app that isn’t making money. But I would say it’s safe to assume the CCP will gladly burn billions to ensure they have a social media plat
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
You could easily make the case that Facebook is copying Twitter (Vine), an American tech company that TikTok copied. But let’s be real, there’s nothing impressive or innovative about making an Instagram clone with short video clips rather t
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Already happened many times. A recent example is the BLM protests that took place all over the world. There has also been a lot of protests against Trump, including the famous baby balloon that was seen during his UK visit.
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Plenty of people are protesting against business with Saudi Arabia. The reason you see so much anti-China sentiment is likely a result of China having managed to become a part of the lives of people in western countries. Oil states play a h

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