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by bleepblorp 6y ago
There's a very good case that the EU should limit both Chinese and US tech sector market access both for security reasons and to help build a viable European tech sector. European data should be controlled in Europe, not on US or Chine
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
I don't know if there are any good options at this point. The general position from the US national security elite is that China should not be permitted to become powerful enough to have a completely independent foreign policy. This go
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Whether Facebook is an ISP or not isn't material to whether it should be a common carrier. Facebook's social function is as a distributor of broadcast information and carrier of peer-to-peer information for two billion people. Fur
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Social media neutrality isn't a 'both political sides bad' problem but rather an issue that ties into differences in strategies between conservative and non-conservative political blocs. Conservatives, not just in the United
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
The Chinese government isn't made up of nice people by any stretch but it's vitally important to understand their position so as to avoid escalation, possibly into armed conflict in future decades. They have every reason to view t
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Sending multiple small transactions to evade limits might get you flagged by your bank, or FinCEN, as a potential money launderer.
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Payment.
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It's pretty much impossible for lower-income countries to develop economically without protecting their emerging businesses from being slaughtered by established foreign competition. The priority of the Chinese government is the benefi
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
It's one of those American policies that has a triple motivation: it provides an opportunity for the GOP to look "tough" on foreigners, it provides the opportunity to protect the US tech sector's market position by outla
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Repeating stuff from Twitter does seem to be how an awful lot of journalists are doing their jobs these days, particularly for local news. Many local news stories I see in my area are just little more than a three-paragraph wrapper around a
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
The impression I get from parts of the Internet that skew towards younger demographics (e.g. Reddit) is that the 30-something crowd realize that they've been given a raw deal and many of them do know that things were better for the med
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
The need for friction-free interoperability combined with the technical challenges of competing vendors implementing fully interoperable software means most domain-specific software markets are an economic natural monopoly where only one pr