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by tatrajim 5y ago
For the record, here's what Pam Bondi said on related issues during the press conference today: "When you have Mark Zuckerberg and others being called in front of Congress and being coerced and being questioned by all these congre
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by tatrajim 5y ago
No, you've got the matter backwards. It's John Coale, anti-tobacco litigator.
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He means John Coale, anti-tobacco , anti-Union Carbide lawyer, https://bijog.com/biography/john-p-coale
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She is exhibit A in Greenwald's essay lambasting Congress for pressuring SV to censor speech they find objectionable. https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-in-a-five-hour-hea...
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Of course, every single member of the US government was fully and faithfully implementing the president's policy goals. The absolute purity of the status of Facebook et al. as private companies, free from any taint of government influe
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"This doesn't and couldn't exist" Rep. Angie Craig (D, MN) questions Mark Zuckerberg in a Congressional hearing: "Facebook allows Rep. Greene's (R, GA) video to remain online. Is that right, yes or no?" h
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by tatrajim 5y ago
Also likely to figure in the lawsuit are emails between Fauci and Zuckerberg that might be used to indicate an untoward pattern of collusion between the government and a private corporation, featuring -- disturbingly enough -- redactions, s
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Trump's legal team has taken up the argument put forth by Glenn Greenwald (e.g., his March essay "Congress, in a Five-Hour Hearing, Demands Tech CEOs Censor the Internet Even More Aggressively") that Congress is, in effect, o
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by tatrajim 5y ago
To quote Taibbi: "But if 2,000 Apple employees are going to insist that they feel literally unsafe working alongside a man who wrote a love letter to a woman who towers over him in heels, I’d like to hear their take on serving under, a
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by tatrajim 6y ago
In my small town diner there was a prominent sign: "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone". My mother, who had traveled 1000 miles to campaign for black voter registration (this was the '60s), always bristled when
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Aldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace (1958)(youtube.com)
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Then in that case they will surely be desirous of de-platforming the toxic content on Twitter, which advocates, among other things, the destruction of Israel By Iran and the internment of Uyghurs in Sinjiang. Who would want their corporate
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by tatrajim 6y ago
As someone who has lived in both fascist regimes (South Korea in the 1970s and 1980s) and Communist ones (off and on in China during that past two decades), I have witnessed close at hand supposedly private businesses eager to curry favor w
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by tatrajim 6y ago
The compliant Korean media companies under the military then and the Chinese ones like TenCent now craft their censorship to the ideological winds of the state. Silicon Valley under Biden will likely exactly mirror state ideology and indeed
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by tatrajim 6y ago
That's what I saw daily under military dictatorship in South Korea in the 1970s and 80s. My Time magazine would arrive with gaping holes where pages had been cut out. These days the scissors in the US are virtual, but the goal is the
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by tatrajim 6y ago
Just a quiet word from a free speech advocate who has lived in China and spoken extensively with victims of the Cultural Revolution. The overheated rhetoric here and the shrill denunciations of political rivals ring all too familiar. Ask yo
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Justice Minister in Poland announces online freedom of speech bill(polandin.com)
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Precisely. There is no legal remedy in China for cases such as Apple's, a situation that the Hacker News et al. communities blandly accept in silence while valorizing attempts by ByteDance and WeChat to game the US system for profitabl
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by tatrajim 6y ago
Nice to know that Apple was given equal legal consideration in China in 2016 when its iBooks store and iTunes movie store were suddenly ordered shut after six months of operation. Oh, wait. . . they weren't given any legal recourse at
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by tatrajim 6y ago
Honest question for Chinese users of WeChat: have you ever thought twice about WeChat posts and communications, whether they'll be deemed "acceptable" to censors? Everyone I know self-censors nearly constantly, if unconscious
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How long is China going to put on the mantle of victimhood over events 160 years in the past?! By that standard surely Korea can complain endlessly about China and Yuan Shikai lording it over their kingdom in the 1880s, and the Czechs can c
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by tatrajim 6y ago
Two crucial differences: 1) Chinese law can be used to coerce indivudusls (including presumably tech company execs) to spy for the state. That is illegal under US law. And uf you're a Chinese student abroad, good luck saying no to th
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Great business model China, Inc. has: 1) ban all competing apps in China; 2) force all users to verify themselves through passports and photos; 3) stream all data through servers legally obtainable by the government; 4) whine in US courts w
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by tatrajim 6y ago
Chinese-owned companies have no right to withhold data from the state. China National Intelligence Law Article 7: Any organization or citizen shall support, assist and cooperate with the state intelligence work in accordance with the law, a
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by tatrajim 6y ago
- join Peace Corps and work entirely in Korean in a rural health center for two years with minimal English. Or that's how one used to do it. Stressful but effective. - as with all foreign language speakers, the rules are subtly differe
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by tatrajim 6y ago
Touché. I should have said China. But Ruby is, alas, the exception that proves the rule.
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So much for the vaunted innovation of IT in China. Watch censorship in real time as posts disappear before your eyes.
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As in when Apple iTunes movies and books were suddenly shut down in China after six months of legal operation, with no explanation? If you're Chinese, you'll appreciate the casual contempt openly expressed in the frequently refere
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As in Apple silicon? And still waiting for any new language or operating system from East Asia. Their entire IT industry has been built with technology cavalierly appropriated legally and otherwise from the West. Wake me when any reciprocat
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| Microsoft/Apple choose to comply And look how Apple was treated. In 2015 their iBooks and iTunes Movies stores were first approved, but then six months later suddenly banned without warning or explanation. Why should China be surpris

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