• AngryRobot@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Every fucking Chinese company is required to be an arm of their government and provide them with any information they request. It’s not even a question, they are an arm of the Chinese government. They can get fucked

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      7 hours ago

      Same goes for US companies.

      Have we learned nothing from Snowden?

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            46 minutes ago

            Yeah, if only in either of those two countries people were seeing measurable improvements in their lives, approved of their government, and had hope for the future…

  • NineMileTower@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Here’s a list of websites China bans:

    • Google
    • YouTube
    • Facebook
    • Yahoo
    • Wikipedia
    • Marxists Internet Archive
    • Reddit
    • Fandom
    • Netflix
    • Zoom
    • Blogspot
    • Bing
    • Instagram
    • WhatsApp
    • Twitch
    • Roblox
    • Steam Store
    • Steam Community
    • Spotify
    • Messenger
    • X
    • LinkedIn
    • Skype
    • Tumblr
    • Pinterest
    • SoundCloud
    • Signal Private Messenger
    • Dropbox
    • Pornhub
    • XVideos
    • Medium
    • Dailymotion
    • BBC
    • The New York Times
    • Vimeo
    • The Guardian
    • SlideShare
    • Discord
    • DeviantArt
    • The Washington Post
    • Nico Video
    • Archive.org (Internet Archive)
    • Bloomberg
    • Flickr
    • Wretch
    • HuffPost
    • The Wall Street Journal
    • DuckDuckGo
    • Scratch
    • Reuters
    • NBC News -TIME
    • Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
    • Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
    • Bandcamp
    • Technorati
    • Archive of Our Own
    • Viber
    • South China Morning Post
    • Plurk
    • The Economist
    • ABC
    • Voice of America
    • Radio Free Asia
    • NBC
    • PBworks
    • The Epoch Times
    • The Epoch Times (Chinese edition)
    • HBO
    • WION
    • Hong Kong Free Press
    • Apple Daily
    • TikTok
    • ChatGPT
    • Rockstar Games
    • GitHub
    • Hugging Face
    • Flipkart
    • Zomato
    • Clubhouse
    • Swiggy
    • Truth Social
    • National Weather Service
    • Kanzhongguo (English)
    • Kanzhongguo (Chinese)
    • Microsoft Copilot
    • Telegram
    • Voice of America (Chinese)
    • Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher (by a famous anti-CCP Twitter poster)
    • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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      Basically any site that they don’t have full control over/can’t buy favor from and has the ability to spread info they dislike, even if it’s something as simple as 2+2=4".

      And if you’re looking for someone outside of China to blame for their internet shield, Cisco was responsible for helping them set it up.

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      22 hours ago

      Fair point, but that means the ban should be coming from Department of Commerce, not the DoD.

      Don’t try to come up with bullshit excuses about espionage.

      “We’re banning these private-business Chinese websites because China bans our private-business websites and that’s anti-competitive”.

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        22 hours ago

        Hard disagree, censorship is not welcome in a free society. I dislike a number of those sites and haven’t heard of most of the rest, but I wouldn’t ban a single one.

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          Good luck dealing with the current far-right inthe government in the US and soon in the EU countries though

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        Yeah let’s follow China’s lead and become just like them! I support restricting political freedoms and a giant firewall and a social credit system too.

        They are obviously the superior system and therefore we need to emulate them.

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    Oh my, the US military might have to change the name of the list to, “Foreign companies we’re blacklisting for classified reasons”. How terrible.

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    22 hours ago

    Keep it a note that having them listed as a Chinese military company could let US put pressure against open source groups to not collaborate with them; very similar to how US forced Linux Foundation to kick off decade old russian collaborators.

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      21 hours ago

      That’s a bad mischaracterization. You cannot force someone to do something voluntarily . Torvald spoke in support of it. I’m sure many governments and groups using the Linux kernel and open source want Developers that are vetted. Or can be reasonably sure won’t be forced to act maliciously under duress.

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        It is not a mischaracterization though. Open source projects can be forced to stop accepting contributions from employees of sanctioned companies, which would include Tencent employees if sanctioned. Anyways, Tencent is not being sanctioned here, so I guess it doesn’t really matter.

        Also, Linus was definitely forced to kick the Russian maintainers out by USA sanctions.

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        do you really think I give a shit about tencent? I just wanted to point out that this could have negative consequences for open source projects. Projects sponsored by them could lose a funding source, or any help work done by them could cease because of this.

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          do you really think I give a shit about tencent?

          Yes, but I don’t understand why.

          I just wanted to point out that this could have negative consequences for open source projects.

          Something tells me the private billion dollar tech conglomerate doesn’t host a lot of “open source” projects.

          Projects sponsored by them could lose a funding source, or any help work done by them could cease because of this.

          That’s true, what sort of wholesome projects would lose funding? I would love to see that they sponsor the world’s largest food bank or help casualties of war get adequate medical treatment or fit for prosthetics (there isn’t a lot of money to be made in philanthropy in case you weren’t aware, i have 0 faith in tencent being benevolent in any way).