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Re:China Is Forcing Tech Companies to Choose Between Profits... by discoverfly on Thursday October 10, 2019 @02:48AM (#21211644)
How do you know how things work in China? It's not about free speech. It's about boycotting the support of splitting a country. If a company says that American Civil War and Lincoln is evil and illegal. It's free speech. How American think about it?
Re:China Is Forcing Tech Companies to Choose Between Profits... by thawaway1837 on Thursday October 10, 2019 @07:43AM (#21213301)
Lol. South Park has made fun of America and Lincoln many times. They’re still making videos and broadcasting them on national TV in the US.

But a comparison to Winnie the Pooh is apparently something The Chinese premier can not handle.

Re:China Is Forcing Tech Companies to Choose Between Profits... by dragonwriter on Thursday October 10, 2019 @05:05PM (#21219157)
> If a company says that American Civil War and Lincoln is evil and illegal. It's free speech. How American think about it?

Plenty of Americans would agree with that, hence the popularity in America of the banner of the losers of that conflict.

Re:China Is Forcing Tech Companies to Choose Between Profits... by powerapple on Thursday October 10, 2019 @03:13AM (#21211772)
I don't think that's a good example. No one cares about Lincoln. Culture difference. You cannot offend America as a whole, but definitely many chances to offend groups of Americans. And the consequences would be similar to this. Offending other countries is free of speech to all Americans, because no one inside America would complain. All media care about is the complaint letters, phone calls to their call center and politicians.
Re:China Is Forcing Tech Companies to Choose Between Profits... by seanmcdirmid on Thursday October 10, 2019 @09:17AM (#21214025)
China isn’t really that different. The people getting offended just have lots of power.
Re:China Is Forcing Tech Companies to Choose Between Profits... by neverartful on Thursday October 10, 2019 @09:57AM (#21214530)
'No one cares about Lincoln.' Really?!!

I beg to differ. He is considered the greatest president our country has ever had. He did everything he could to keep the country together during a very tenuous time. I do think that some people care about Lincoln.

Re:China Is Forcing Tech Companies to Choose Between Profits... by mrkstu on Thursday October 10, 2019 @07:52AM (#21213367)
Great question!

The interesting thing is that President fought that war, in part, to fight for America’s highest value, freedom.

So, in point of fact, China is treading upon the one area that is offensive to us almost unanimously, our freedom, in this case, of speech.

Re:China Is Forcing Tech Companies to Choose Between Profits... by powerapple on Thursday October 10, 2019 @08:02AM (#21213444)
How is China take away America's free speech? Yes, it is taking some money away, so what? You can still say whatever you want anyway. Why do people care about China anyway, China is not your mum. Just say what you want. Yes, you lose a few bucks. Also people shouldn't judge on others when they prefer bucks over a few statements. It is a free country anyway. Not a free-as-long-as-you-agree-with-me.
Re:China Is Forcing Tech Companies to Choose Between Profits... by yellowapple on Thursday October 10, 2019 @05:03PM (#21219147)
> If a company says that American Civil War and Lincoln is evil and illegal. It's free speech. How American think about it?

Well it's not like Americans have a long history of television, movies, music, and literature that are harshly critical and even outright mocking of past and current US presidents. Nobody ever depicts Donald Trump as an orange-skinned combover-wearing loon, or Michelle Obama as a health-fascist, or George W. Bush as a big-eared warmongering idiot. That would surely be unacceptable to any American!

Re:China Is Forcing Tech Companies to Choose Between Profits... by Knove on Thursday October 10, 2019 @04:53AM (#21212312)
right! It's not about free speech. It's about boycotting the support of splitting a country!!!
Re:China Is Forcing Tech Companies to Choose Between Profits... by jimmy2020 on Thursday October 10, 2019 @10:07AM (#21214641)
So what do you think of Gulag? A rehabilitation camp keeping the union united against the enemies of the state.
Re:China Is Forcing Tech Companies to Choose Between Profits... by NicoJuicy on Thursday October 10, 2019 @01:39PM (#21217237)
1 country, 2 systems.

It's more like boycotting dictatorship