Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days
by FooBarWidget on Friday August 07, 2020 @10:40AM
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Yes, the nature of the law shouldn't be dismissed. But don't you think it's up to the citizen of that country to judge the validity of that law, and not up to outsiders?
Mass protests in China do happen. When people really are dissatisfied, they do speak up, and it does happen that the government listens. For example in 2019 there were mass protests in Guangdong about building a cemetery. People mass protested, some even vandalized and got arrested. But in the end, the peaceful protesters didn't get in trouble, and the government gave people what they wanted. https://mothership.sg/2019/12/news-china-protests-wenlou-hua...
The situation in China isn't as black & white, or as dystopian, as what many believe, even though there's still plenty of room for improvement.
Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days
by kiba on Friday August 07, 2020 @11:08AM
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The Chinese government only listen some of the time.
Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days
by FooBarWidget on Friday August 07, 2020 @03:40PM
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No doubt about that.
Do you have a point?
We also can’t dismiss the nature of a law. A law may be sufficiently heinous that it loses its validity, which I think many Chinese laws qualify as they are so broad they are as some CCP members have stated, being like the sword of Damocles with the specific intent to terrorize and allow the government flexibility to do what it wants under the image of ‘rule of law’ which it obviously isn’t.