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Re:US companies giving in to pressure from China by 394549 on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @02:36PM (#17709305)
> Considering the blatant lies and misinformation being spread in the comment, the fact that it's a fresh, new account makes it suspect.

What blatant lies? Everything there looks true, except maybe the employment figures (the US figure apparently includes all people working in the "the iOS ecosystem", which seems totally bogus to me), but that's actually being generous to Apple.

Edit: Just to quickly fact check the other stuff:

> That dictatorship now has imprisoned close to 1 million people in Xinjiang.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/former-inm...

> Shame on you, Sundar Pichai. At least when Google was lead by Erich Schmidt, Google pulled out of China, and didn't bend to the whims of Chinese government.

Google stops cooperating with Chinese censorship in 2010: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/12/google-ch...

Censored Google being developed in 2018: https://theintercept.com/2018/08/01/google-china-search-engi...

> Shame on you, Mark Zuckerberg, for continuing to appease the dictator in China, so that Facebook may gain a foothold there.

Zuckerberg shamelessly sucking up to Xi/CCP: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1658272/zuckerberg-h...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/china-s-president-...

> Shame on you, Satya Nadella, for continuing to supply censored search results in Bing. and for not taking a stand against censorship.

Bing censoring Chinese search results: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/11/bing-cens...

> Shame on you, Jeff Bezos. You become the richest man on earth, by allowing pirated, stolen, IP infriged goods from China to be sold on your platform without care

Amazon's counterfeit problem: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/amazo...

Re:US companies giving in to pressure from China by maxwell on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @02:52PM (#17709446)
Thank you for checking facts and sharing citations.