Trump bans Alipay and seven other Chinese apps

Re:Trump bans Alipay and seven other Chinese apps by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @11:54AM (#25659488)

The committee McCarthy chaired at the time of his notorious anti-Communist crusade was the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which still exists.

You may be thinking of the House Un-American Activities Committee, which also spent some time doing similar anti-Communist witch hunts, which existed until being renamed as the House Internal Security Committee in 1969, and was abolished with it's functions transferred to the House Judiciary Committee in 1975.

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Re:Trump bans Alipay and seven other Chinese apps by trasz on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @12:05PM (#25659603)

Thanks. So it boils down to China being where USA was 50 years ago, freedom of speech-wise?

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Re:Trump bans Alipay and seven other Chinese apps by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @12:15PM (#25659749)

Well, no, 63 years ago was Yates v. US; even through the height of the anti-Communist witch hunting phase, the US had a stronger protection of free speech rights of Communists than China has for dissidents today.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yates_v._United_States

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