Re:All the international brands that have apologized to China
by alpaca128 on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @10:09AM
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What I find so difficult with this whole topic is finding ways to fight this tendency of companies and other organizations bowing to China. So far I haven't found much except signing a couple petitions and boycotting, but petitions don't seem that helpful and boycotts are basically irrelevant as long as the corporation gains more profits in China than they lose from boycotts.
What I kind of like is referring to China as West Taiwan, but realistically that probably also doesn't do much except anger people from mainland China.
It's hard to watch Tim Cook and others talk about privacy and similar issues on some stage while they cooperate with a government running concen-...uh, "re-education" camps.
Re:All the international brands that have apologized to China
by ncmncm on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @10:04PM
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It's hard to watch Tim Cook for a variety of other reasons, such as that Apple is sequestering income outside the US to avoid paying any fair share if taxes, and refusing to to repair millions of bad products they could easily afford to fix.
Re:All the international brands that have apologized to China
by Huycfhct on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @11:57AM
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Taiwan is the exiled government of China. Taiwan doesn't call themselves Taiwan but Republic of China. For mainland China I prefer communist occupied China
Re:All the international brands that have apologized to China
by ncmncm on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @09:59PM
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Increasingly many do. Generally, the more anonymous the survey, the larger the proportion is. Apparently there is still official pressure there to pretend to recognize it as a legitimate government in exile.
Re:All the international brands that have apologized to China
by ncmncm on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @09:56PM
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Heh, it links to Inkstone talking about how LinkedIn has totally sucked up to China, but even Inkstone refers to the Tiananmen "crackdown", not the "massacre". So it's working, even in places it is supposed not to.
In the US, police have to murder black people in ones and twos, building up numbers slowly so as not to attract too much attention. In China they get to murder people wholesale. It makes them sloppy.
It seems strange how those who have chosen to participate in law enforcement are so resistant to the idea of not routinely murdering people. Not even just as a matter of, say, setting a good example.
What I kind of like is referring to China as West Taiwan, but realistically that probably also doesn't do much except anger people from mainland China.
It's hard to watch Tim Cook and others talk about privacy and similar issues on some stage while they cooperate with a government running concen-...uh, "re-education" camps.
In particular, they should change Taiwan's entry in ISO-3166 before scowling at foreign companies for using a standardized country list.
Why should China's foreign policy be so privileged as to define intenational standards?
In the US, police have to murder black people in ones and twos, building up numbers slowly so as not to attract too much attention. In China they get to murder people wholesale. It makes them sloppy.
It seems strange how those who have chosen to participate in law enforcement are so resistant to the idea of not routinely murdering people. Not even just as a matter of, say, setting a good example.