Re:China to Set Up ‘Security Offices’ Inside Internet Companies
by vorg on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @03:49PM
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> There's a really big difference between controlling what is said and observing everything that is said
The U.S. simply makes a far greater effort to make the movie/TV industry appear fundamentally different to and disconnected from the NSA.
Re:China to Set Up ‘Security Offices’ Inside Internet Companies
by prewett on Thursday August 06, 2015 @03:23AM
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That's just nonsense (and unsubstantiated). Read the People's Daily--they have an English version online--for a while and then read the Washington Post, NY Times, etc. The American media routinely criticize the government: Fox -> Democrats; NY Times -> Republicans. I'd be surprised if you can make it a week reading the People's Daily, it's so full of right thinking that it'll make a NY Times article on Obama look condemning...
Re:China to Set Up ‘Security Offices’ Inside Internet Companies
by vorg on Thursday August 06, 2015 @12:17PM
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> The American media routinely criticize the government
That's another difference between the U.S. and China: the U.S. use elected politicians as media decoys in addition to foreign countries a lot more than China, leaving unexamined the real groups that run the countries, which in the U.S. includes the corporations that pay money to advertise on TV or in the news.
It's still too glib and snarky.
There's a really big difference between controlling what is said and observing everything that is said. I think the NSA has gone too far, but it's way different from censorship. And even censorship is different than what Communism does, which as far as I can tell from the People's Daily, is that they simply say what they wish were true as if it were true. Apparently they also suppress statements to the contrary. This is very, very different than privacy violations from recording everything.