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by echevil 8y ago
It is indeed a hard problem to solve. I guess more traditional news media are not free of such problem as well. Who knows if every single ads on their site is not problematic, or if their reporters are not secretly sponsored by problematic
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by echevil 8y ago
Except it’s not a fear based approach. The re-education camp are - like it’s name - for re-education. The Chinese government want these Muslim extremists to learn enough skills to live a normal life. If they can make a living like everyone
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by echevil 8y ago
To be fair the people you’re talking about are Muslim extremists - they are not too different from people causing terrorism in Middle East and they are what the Chinese government need to deal with. There are also tons of regular Xinjiang M
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by echevil 8y ago
> China has removed all human rights for over ten million Uyghur Muslims. That can’t be more false
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by echevil 8y ago
It’s not secret anymore. The government has explained what they are. And so called re-education camps are not uncommon in other parts of China at all
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by echevil 8y ago
Plenty of democratic countries have severely corrupted leaders or government doing crazy shit. It’s not like democracy alone can make these shit stoppable
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by echevil 8y ago
My point is not about democracy vs authoritarian, but rather extreme individual liberty vs more restrictions (by law). Sure you won’t do bad thing but you cannot prevent every other people from doing so when it is their “freedom”. When a so
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by echevil 8y ago
My guess is that it will be more sustainable than government that restrict much less freedoms - people carry guns, have drugs, piss on the streets, destroy public properties and do all kinds of creepy things and government can’t really do m
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by echevil 8y ago
I lived in Singapore for six years and then San Francisco for almost six years now, but seriously, I don’t feel US is any more “free” in any tangible ways. Maybe there are more “freedom” defined by laws in US but certainly not something tha
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by echevil 8y ago
There have been quite a few reports recently that wanted criminals were captured because of this technology. Some of those had been escaping from police for many years. It’s about capturing criminals not detecting suspects. Most interesting
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by echevil 8y ago
Well, it may make sense if you're always on the go, but a lot of people like me would spend most of their time with a full size computer available that provides way more utility than whatever phones. I would even totally pay more to ha
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by echevil 8y ago
They are good phones. I'm very interested in Xiaomi's Mix 3 that's going to be announced end of this month now.
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by echevil 8y ago
No. I also don't consent website tracking detailed information about my device when I visit a webpage, but that happens as long as I on internet.
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by echevil 8y ago
Tangible improvements for almost everybody. The poorest people in China probably have seen biggest improvements. It’s not a capitalist government
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Huawei’s Mate 20 Pro is a spec and camera monster(google.com)
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by echevil 8y ago
Increase in GDP also brings very tangible improvements in income, life standards, modernization of cities, new technologies and a lot more to be happy with.
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by echevil 8y ago
Yes they are. Especially younger generations in China nowadays are much more likely to be pro-Chinese government and less agreeing to western values. Plenty of young students who came to study in America for a few years also have a tendency
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by echevil 8y ago
Well, from the point of views of a normal Chinese citizen, Google’s presence is always welcome. It better be censored or it’ll be kicked out pretty soon. Though people doesn’t like these censorship, vast majority of Chinese simply doesn’t c
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by echevil 8y ago
In all of the three examples you gave, I don't see slightest problem of being targeted with those ads. Getting those ads don't mean I act on it in any way. With or without leaked personal information, I get tons of ads whatsoever,
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Snapcrap lets you take pictures of poop on sidewalks and report it to the city(cnet.com)
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by echevil 8y ago
> It is not in an individual's best interest to have personal, private or even possibly harmful information warehoused at different advertising entities. Largely depends on who you are, I think. I’m not opposed to sharing any of my
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by echevil 8y ago
I publish my daily route to Google map’s timeline feature. It can show where I have been to in high accuracy. It’s a pretty damn boring route
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by echevil 8y ago
"Individually targeted ads" is intrinsically more relevant to the individual and leads to better click through rate. It is in the interest of both the company who run these ads and the user who see these ads (that they're muc
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by echevil 8y ago
Maybe those who care that much about privacy should use a complete different set of products. I, for one, would be more than happy to let Facebook/Google/Netflix/Yelp to use my personal data to customize their product to serv
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by echevil 8y ago
Even with recent criticisms there're really no sign that Google's business is anywhere close to dying (or shrunk at all). Their core products, the search engine, Google Map, Youtube, etc. are still best of its kind and no where cl
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by echevil 8y ago
> But Bloomberg is a serious news organization and they are holding strong on this story as well. So what to think? When the articles published by those "serious news organizations" concerns China, disinformation / lack of
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by echevil 8y ago
Oh, it's Bloomberg again...
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> What I don't understand is how Google's employees deal with the cognitive dissonance. There are so many Google employees that I won’t expect them to all agree on these things. There are probably enough number of Chinese emplo
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by echevil 8y ago
> Reporters can't be this dumb. What makes you think so
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by echevil 8y ago
On the contrary, when the reports concern China, almost none of these media is trustworthy. I’ve been reading those articles in the past, and checking their original source of information or comparing reports/announcements from multipe

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