Re:Taiwan to block Tencent and Baidu streaming sites on secu...
by ArchD on Sunday March 31, 2019 @08:26PM
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Says the person who is probably not among the following Chinese people who would probably disagree:
- 10000 who were killed in 1989
- parents whose baby who were poisoned by melanine-tainted milk
- people who were forced out of their homes by corrupt local officials and property developers
- human rights lawyers locked up without due process even by the standards of the Chinese written laws
The US has its fair share of misdeeds, but it does not blatantly censor the Internet and public discourse.
Don't conflate Chinese people with CPC.
Re:Taiwan to block Tencent and Baidu streaming sites on secu...
by powerapple on Monday April 01, 2019 @03:17AM
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Anyone disagrees with you are sponsored by CPC. That "if" statement works well for you.
From the Chinese perspective I don't think it makes much difference whether something they perceive to be threatening originates somewhere in the soup of the internet and then makes its way into China or is a concerted effort by a foreign government.
I think the same would be true in reverse, when the Chinese internet would collectively promote material running counter to US interests, say for patriotic reasons, it'd be subject to scrutiny just the same. (In fact historically that did sort of happen to say, pro Soviet American citizens)