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Re:China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival Gi... by mschip on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @05:08PM (#25839573)
The obscure American social network is not the interesting bit of information. It's that the infrastructure and delivery corporations decided overnight not to support a customer for not aligning with their values.
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Re:China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival Gi... by muricula on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @07:01PM (#25840745)
I don't think that the CCP had this sudden realization recently the same way many HN posters seem to have.
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Re:China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival Gi... by sudosysgen on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @07:29PM (#25841023)
This is why China used the GFW to grow Alibaba Cloud, Tencent, WeChat and more that provide more than sufficient infrastructure and delivery, from servers to payment processors, and currently has almost-good-enough alternatives for the silicon down to the foundry level.
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