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by perennate 6y ago
This is about cultural identity though. The link should be https://esc.nccu.edu.tw/PageDoc/Detail?fid=7805&id=6962 which shows 0.7+6.8 = 7.5% supporting eventual re-unification with 0.7% supporting immediate re-uni
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by perennate 6y ago
Hm you're right, I checked https://jamestown.org/program/taiwan-opinion-polling-on-unif... and https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3951560 and it seems the 30% supporting eventual unif
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by perennate 6y ago
The problem with no moderation and NOT deleting obvious misinformation and fake news is that social media platforms would then be overrun by bot accounts. Because of the strong capabilities of automation on the Internet, protecting free spe
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by perennate 6y ago
The power of these corporations is a big issue, but the deletion of obvious misinformation and fake news such as the tweet in question here is clearly in the public interest. If anything, future regulation of social media platforms would li
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by perennate 6y ago
Twitter has the right (and, really, an ethical obligation) to deter the spread of misinformation by malicious actors. This tweet implicitly makes the false claim that mass sterilization in Xinjiang is voluntary, and its deletion will mitiga
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by perennate 6y ago
A ministry of information would jail and possibly harvest the organs of those sending the information. As far as I know, Twitter has not arrested and harvested the organs of anyone working in the embassy.
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by perennate 6y ago
That forced sterilization is happening is fact. Twitter isn't taking a "stand" on what the truth is (it is telling that you put truth in quotes). Twitter is simply deleting tweets that spread misinformation, whether the misin
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by perennate 6y ago
Or Biden can take no action and continue the status quo. I don't see how it boxes him in at all. The status quo would be fine if Xi Jinping weren't continuing to inflame tensions by setting a 2049 deadline for forcefully retaking
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by perennate 6y ago
There is no point in provoking China into a war because it would lead to a nuclear war which would end humanity as we know it. Everyone would lose in any all-on war between two nuclear powers. China has been far more provoking than the US,
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by perennate 6y ago
You are referring to the de jure claims, which Taiwan only maintains due to pressure from the PRC. If Taiwan officially cedes these claims, the PRC would respond with economic sanctions, because the PRC wants Taiwan to continue to pretend i
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by perennate 6y ago
Currently PRC pressures Taiwan to maintain the status quo, which is that both the PRC and ROC are different factions of the same country. While Taiwan ending official "claims" to the mainland might be seen by the PRC as slightly l
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by perennate 6y ago
The KMT does not want to eventually re-unify the PRC. They merely want to continue pretending to want to eventually re-unify with the PRC to maintain good economic relations. Because the PRC accounts for 28% of Taiwan's exports and 19%
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by perennate 6y ago
Parent comment discussed "democracy activists in Hong Kong being rounded up" -- Bagacrap was of course misleadingly labeling those activists as "secessionists", unless you think Bagacrap was referring to the Taiwanese pe
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by perennate 6y ago
Not to mention China's continued campaign of genocide against the Uighur people in Xinjiang. (And yes, when the CCP employs mass sterilization to prevent Uighurs from having children and interns millions in concentration camps without
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by perennate 6y ago
> Every place has the right to self determination, but secessionists tend to be treated as criminals. The HK democracy activists are protesting in support of self determination. Those arrested are not "secessionists", and as fa
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by perennate 6y ago
Why quote that when the Wikipedia article that it's from is titled "rotating wheel space station"? Rotating wheel is more descriptive than Von Braun or Tsiolkovsky or Potočnik.
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by perennate 6y ago
The article title is "SolarWinds exposed FTP credentials in Public Github Repo" (in 2019) which is far less definitive than the misleading title submitted on HN.
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by perennate 6y ago
I googled it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland
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by perennate 6y ago
What do you mean "all media called Gore the winner"? I can't find any evidence of that. According to Wikipedia [1], "on November 8 ... the networks declared that Bush had carried Florida and therefore been elected presid
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by perennate 6y ago
Clinton conceded the election to Trump the day after the election. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/09/hillary-clin...
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by perennate 6y ago
I don't know, you tell me? I didn't say anything about Trump administration banning European internet service companies.
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by perennate 6y ago
The policies are harmful, and reciprocal policies are good policies. I don't think this is inconsistent. It's just like how US imposing tariffs on Canadian aluminum is harmful, but Canada reciprocating with its own tariffs is defi
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by perennate 6y ago
That (emulating CCP policies) is exactly what the US is NOT doing. Instead, the US has chosen to surgically target companies from specific countries (in this case, China) in a sensible, reciprocal reaction. (I see many posters saying the US
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by perennate 6y ago
I think the US passing legislation that requires foreign companies to transfer their technology (or worse, copying brutally repressive CCP laws on media) would be far far far more damaging than surgically banning companies from specific cou
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by perennate 6y ago
Given the arbitrary way in which the CCP laws you mentioned are applied, I don't see any practical difference with the US action. I do agree that the CCP's way gives a better image so that its spokespeople can pretend like they ar
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by perennate 6y ago
When the US imposes tariffs on other countries, like Canada, we expect Canada to reciprocate. Reciprocal countermeasures are crucial for discouraging the original activity, whether it be tariffs or bans on foreign internet service companies
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by perennate 6y ago
Exactly. When the US imposes tariffs on Canadian aluminum, we expect Canada to reciprocate. When China imposes bans on foreign internet service companies, we expect India, the US, and other affected countries to reciprocate. Failing to reci
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by perennate 6y ago
So far, the primary country that has developed its own fragmented internet is China. The response from India, the US, and others merely represents a reciprocal retaliation to the CCP's arbitrary bans on foreign internet service compani
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by perennate 6y ago
After the U.S. imposed tariffs on Canadian aluminum, Canada responded with tariffs on U.S. goods [1]. A reciprocal retaliation makes sense to discourage the other side from continuing to participate in these market practices. If reciprocal
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by perennate 6y ago
Yes, it would be great for the American people if China bans iPhones -- Apple would have less of an economic incentive to follow arbitrary and brutally repressive takedown demands from the CCP government like this: https://news.y

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