Intel removes Xinjiang references from shareholder letter

Re:Intel removes Xinjiang references from shareholder letter by dang on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @11:48PM (#29916978)

Please stop perpetuating flamewars on Hacker News. We've had to ask you this many times before. Eventually we ban such accounts.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

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Re:Intel removes Xinjiang references from shareholder letter by trasz on Thursday January 13, 2022 @07:00AM (#29919757)

Should I just ignore FUD then, or is there some way to respond to FUD in a way that doesn’t tend to provoke flame wars?

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Re:Intel removes Xinjiang references from shareholder letter by dang on Thursday January 13, 2022 @10:45AM (#29921942)

Good question. The two things that seem to work are:

(1) Provide correct information in a way that is more substantive and more respectful than the comment you're replying to;

and/or

(2) Chalk it up to the internet being wrong about everything and walk away (silently—not with a swipe).

As a side point, you'll usually end up at #2 anyhow, because #1 usually provokes more of the same, so after a certain number of iterations you'll find yourself in a tit-for-tat entanglement, which is greatly to be avoided.

The question is what is the optimal number of iterations. Probably it's 1. Maybe 2. Not 3. 4 is right out.

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