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Re:China blocks Wikimedia Foundation’s accreditation to WIPO on Friday September 25, 2020 @10:46AM (#24590343)
The current ruling party of Taiwan, the DPP, disagrees with the One China Policy. They see Taiwan as a soveriegn nation whose territory consists solely of Taiwan and surrouding islands. Although there isn't an international agreement on this topic, the DPP sees it this way and they control the executive and legislature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Progressive_Party#P...

Re:Leak reveals $2T of possibly corrupt US financial activity on Thursday September 24, 2020 @11:37AM (#24579620)
Banks get punished if there was fradulent activity and they didn't publish a SAR. This means banks will file SARs even when there isn't any real fraud going on, just behaviour that their models flag as "suspicious".
Re:Assange Hearing Day 16 on Thursday September 24, 2020 @11:16AM (#24579382)
Sweden was complicit in trying to get Assange into custody and many other EU countries such as Germany have participated in the CIA's Extraordinary rendition program[0]. Don't think EU members are saints.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/02/05...

Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @10:37AM (#24567603)
By that definition, Obama was viciously homophobic[0]. How many people who wanted Eich fired voted for Obama in 2008?

[0] https://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2008/08/obama-says-...

If you know your ISP is bad [0][1] then a VPN which might be bad is better than definitely bad.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/04/04/isps-can...

I don't believe Assange was ever charged. He was just wanted for questioning.
This is an Australian citizen being deported by the UK government to the United States for being a journalist. This is something of international significance and international observers should be allowed to be present if the UK wants to have any semblance of being a liberal democracy.
Exclsuive to Xbox doesn't make sense given what Microsoft's strategy these days but games might be exclusive to Xbox and Microsoft Store on Windows.