Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors

Re:Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s boar... by unionpivo on Thursday September 10, 2020 @05:16AM (#24430388)

> The difference is that here we have the freedom to criticize and organize against it.

Edit: I am mostly addressing the organize against it part. USA has far better free speech protections than China

Do you ? As an outsider it doesn't really look that way. After watching events and protest around BLM, suddenly all those rights have gotchas in them.

Watching USA protesters and Honkong protesters, and goverment respones to them, there were far more similarities than differences. (Well china was still worse, but not by as much as most USA people seem to think).

The biggest difference in USA and china at the moments is that in USA some Politicians still listen to people (if only mostly out of self interest)

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s boar... by deathgrips on Thursday September 10, 2020 @05:22AM (#24430430)

If we were like China, Joe Biden would be in jail. It's a different level entirely. Also please use some judgment when seeing America through the lens of our news media. They have every incentive to exaggerate stories so they can get more clicks and sell more ads. The police brutality at the protests is bad, but it's in a different ballpark than the Hong Kong protests. Here protesters don't have a reasonable fear of getting sent to mainland China to be imprisoned for decades, gang raped by cops in jail, and murdered while cops fake your suicide.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s boar... by danielheath on Thursday September 10, 2020 @05:46AM (#24430593)

Only the latter two, but at least you won’t get sent to mainland China by us police.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s boar... by LargoLasskhyfv on Thursday September 10, 2020 @10:44AM (#24432807)

Regarding the reality distortion fields of Phox Noise and friends, what makes you think the news you get from the HK protesters are any different? Furthermore, please explain why the cameras were off when Jeffrey Epstein died? And the autopsy has been... err 'inconclusive'?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s boar... by derivagral on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:27AM (#24433219)

I think you could take the FBI's very different approach towards Ghislaine Maxwell as evidence that while the Epstein result was... questionable, there is some amount of vested interest in not just disappearing the related actors. Occam's razor, etc.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s boar... by LargoLasskhyfv on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:50AM (#24433426)

That remains to be seen.

[ Parent | on HN ]