Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days
by Wolfenstein98k on Friday August 07, 2020 @11:47AM
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One reports to the government censor, including the dates of children in other countries, in service of current human rights atrocities.
The other does not, and the atrocities (arguably incomparable) are in the past tense.
Iraq was terrible, but it is not the ongoing forced sterilisation and enslavement of Uighurs.
Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days
by _lsq on Friday August 07, 2020 @12:24PM
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I think it's not very productive to discuss if one form of atrocity is worse than the other. It's terrible that we have to compare them at all.
Just like I wouldn't blame US's actions in the middle east on Amazon/Google; I don't see why it's fair to associate ByteDance with what's happening to Uighurs.
There are many things going wrong in the world, the question is if we are on the right path towards solving them. I would argue the current escalation is not helping but rather stir up tribalism which is not going to be our solution.
The founder of ByteDance has on multiple accounts critised the Chinese government: this is not an easy thing to do in China but blaming Chinese government's behaviors on a privately owned tech startup is a bit over the top.