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by abc-xyz 6y ago
You can use GitHub since it’s one of the few platforms (if not the only) that won’t be blocked in China and Microsoft is very unlikely to censor your repository. WeChat and other social media will of course shadowban messages containing a l
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
I think it’s perfectly normal in companies to share news and whatnot in various group chats. We often share news related to Xinjiang, Hong Kong, the virus, BLM, Trump, etc. We don’t all share the same political views, but we’re all adults.
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Zoom is of course still a national security threat.
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
A lot of things are considered national security risks despite lacking what you might consider proof of wrongdoing. It’s quite frankly baffling that people can’t see why one of the most popular social media platforms wouldn’t be considered
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/3/18294030/tencent-xiaomi-ch... https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU/pull/24891
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Qihoo 360, the Chinese company that brought Opera, recently showed the world why you should never trust Chinese hardware and software. On the outside a browser seem harmless, but Qihoo 360, Alibaba, Tencent and all the other Chinese compani
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A Chinese agent used LinkedIn to hunt for targets(bbc.com)
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Help us defend democracy and freedom in Hong Kong(protonvpn.com)
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
It’s sad to think VPN logs might be accepted as a source of truth. They probably are in most countries, but they really shouldn’t be. If your crime is downloading Frozen, and the authorities can’t find any trace of the movie on the device t
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Apple excluded an app for Hong Kong's pro-democracy election from the App Store(businessinsider.com)
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Chinese Police Are Making Threatening Video Calls to Dissidents Abroad(vice.com)
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
You probably wouldn’t see a browser as a security risk either. In a recent example, all the big Chinese browsers blocked or rewrote the content on GitHub’s 996 repo. Imagine if Chinese browsers became mainstream, then they could rewrite Wik
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
The fact that your company’s product end up being represented by the store and its actions. Mistreating employees and customers, discrimination, bad customer service/return policy, terrible product placement, etc. There are so many way
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
I’m pretty sure that in most countries, a store can’t just sell another company’s products without entering an agreement with them. This agreement allows the company to set a minimum and maximum price for the product. Imagine you’re selling
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UK universities comply with China's internet restrictions(bbc.co.uk)
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Pope pulls speech on Hong Kong freedom, raising questions over Beijing pressure(hk.appledaily.com)
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
What makes you say Apple is well-known for refusing invasive government requests? They’ve gladly been handling over all iCloud data for Chinese users to the CCP (meaning many of its users were unknowingly sharing all their sensitive videos&
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Xu Zhangrun, outspoken critic of Xi Jinping, detained by police in Beijing(theguardian.com)
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UBC quietly changes references to Taiwan amid sensitive political climate(ubyssey.ca)
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
For me the fact that they’re open source. This thread is a prime example of why it’s so important. We really have no idea what DuckDuckGo is doing because they’re closed source. For all we know they could be forwarding users’ IP to Microsof
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
They’re pulling info from all the other search engines, not just DuckDuckGo. FYI DuckDuckGo is also pulling their results from other search engines, the only difference is that DuckDuckGo aren’t being blocked/rate-limited by them, pres
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Ask.Moe also support bangs (I know !g and !gt works, not sure about scholar). Searx doesn’t but I imagine they’d gladly accept a pull request for it.
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Also worth mentioning they're closed-source, US-based and for-profit. Why exactly do people trust them? Simply because they write a few articles/ads saying "privacy is important"? If you're willing to sacrifice sear
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China says India’s ban on Chinese apps may violate WTO rules(sharenet.co.za)
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China cuts Uighur births with IUDs, abortion, sterilization(abcnews.go.com)
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U.S. announces end of Hong Kong's special status(theweek.com)
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
The government could technically do that (and worse) if they controlled the browser. China for instance have a few popular browsers (owned by Tencent, Alibaba, Xiaomi, and Qihoo 360) that made it impossible to either view a GitHub repo or p
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
I do and I don’t think it’s an important distinction at all. That being said, I of course know that the Chinese government didn’t force Apple to implement this privacy violating feature, and I know that the Chinese government didn’t force A
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Maybe the Chinese government forced Apple the same way that they’re forcing them to secretly share [Chinese] users [in China] most sensitive data with the government (photos, videos, notes and everything automatically backed up by iCloud).
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Slightly off-topic: any not-made-in-china router recommendations?

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