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How long before the media starts calling uganda a dictatorship or autocracy like we do for russia, iran, venezuela and every other democracy we don't like?
It's interesting how criticizing trash publications like the rolling stone with facts and truth gets your comment flagged. Makes one wonder...
Yes?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall
> While banning TikTok is not fair to me, saying Google isn't banned in China is lying.
No. You are lying or you are dense. Google operated in china til 2010 or so. It tried to foment a color revolution in china like google did throughout north africa, middle east, ukraine, etc. So china instituted more stringent laws to reign in google. Google chose to leave china because the laws would prevent them from spying and destabilizing china.
So you could call it "banned" if you like, but it isn't "banning" in the same sense as tiktok being banned.
Don't forget farmers. Most americans were farmers in the early 1900s. Today it's about 1%.
Sure, jobs were eventually created for the unemployed farmers but "robots taking all the jobs" was a cataclysmic event in the early 1900s. You could argue it was the driving force for much of the 20th century. WW1 was primarily a result of european and american societies having excess population to "thin out". The excess population was also a reason for the anti-immigration movement that dominated the first half of the 1900s.
"Robots taking our jobs" isn't the end of the world. But it can be very painful.
Repeating the same lies doesn't magically turn it into a truth.
The difference between google and tiktok is that tiktok follows all the laws and yet still is getting banned.
You mean the time where they intentionally sought out and then made up a rape because they wanted to peddle mass campus rape propaganda as part of the culture war?
Crazy how you spin that into a positive. That the rolling stone is even in business or has any defenders truly puzzles the mind.
Imagine that. Russia is removing orphans from a warzone. How awful of them. /s
> The war in Ukraine is a land grab for Putin to expand his power.
No. The land grab was by the EU and NATO. It wasn't russia that staged a coup in ukraine and ousted the democratically elected leader of ukraine. It was the EU and NATO. If russia was expanding into canada or mexico, we'd invade canada or mexico. Russia is liberating ukraine for national security reasons. We invaded iraq for oil. Big difference.
When there is war, financial crisis, etc, money seeks the safest harbor. The safest harbor in the world today is the US. Rising interest rates, war in ukraine, competition with china, etc means that the world is buying treasuries. Demand for dollars goes up, demand for most other currencies goes down.
If there is a significant crisis in the world and the dollar doesn't gain in strength, then we'll know a paradigm shift has occurred.
It's like asking why someone with a degree in theoretical physics cannot fix my car.
The real question is why so many people with CS degrees don't know what CS is really about.
https://apnews.com/article/uk-tiktok-government-ban-470538b4...
The BBC is british state propaganda. So of course they have to ban tiktok too.
Who are they controlled by? Something worse than the chinese communist party.
> If I were to live in Asia, it might have once included Hong Kong because of its unique British history.
Your comment just reads like british propaganda. Seems like you are upset that hong kong isn't ruled by britain anymore?
> Meanwhile, Taiwan’s value to the Chinese diaspora can’t be understated
Aren't most of china's diaspora pro-mainland china?
> Now I would probably live in Taiwan and Japan.
So your two favorite places in asia are vassal colonies of america?
Taiwan didn't get rich because of the US. Taiwan got rich because of mainland china. The rise of Hong kong, taiwan, singapore and even to some degree south korea all resulted from the opening of china in the late 60s and 70s. The chinese elites' decision to open up trade with the world is what resulted in the rise of the asian tigers.
> Similarly, China wouldn't have grown rich had it not been a pawn against USSR.
Had nothing to do with the USSR. China was never a pawn for or against the USSR or US or anyone else. China got rich for the same reason saudi arabia got rich or any other nation got rich. China decided to utilize their greatest resource ( a billion relatively cheap labor ) after the USSR fell.
> People underestimate the power of the Anglo-Empire which the British passed over to the Americans, one they continue to run to this day, without so much as a squeak from the mainstream.
Who underestimates it? The entire world order is understood to be an american world order by everyone on earth.
> Given that the West is banking on India to do their bidding, I doubt anyone will halt China's growth
Barring ww3, I doubt china's growth can be slowed. We shall have to wait and see.
In other words, you've built yourself a tiny echo chamber. The only way you have "zero toxicity" is that the group is exceedingly small or you force group-think.
> (3) I once saw a post from a German IT mag (heise, I think from November 2022) that claimed that they have more traffic through Mastodon than through any other Social Media thingy.
That's not a good thing. It means that the german IT mag has no readers.
NATO imperialism? I don't think the ICC is going after anyone in NATO.
> Now he faces arrest on any soil where ICC has juristiction, no matter where they come from or currently reside.
That's funny. Putin wouldn't even face arrest in the netherlands. How many nukes do you think the netherlands is willing to suffer to arrest putin?
> => 123 countries or so, not Russia.
Countries that are not party to ICC - US, Russia, China, India, Turkey, Indonesia, etc...
The oldest democracy. The largest demographic democracy. The largest geographic democracy. The largest islamic democracy. Are not party to the ICC. It's almost like the ICC is the enemy of democracy. Hopefully the great democracies of the world put an end to the ICC.
That's not how it works. Russia isn't party to the ICC. Lets see which is more likely. Russia arrests the members of ICC or the ICC arresting putin.
> No, because Britian is an ICC party
And yet, in all the wars and murders of millions of children, not a single prosecution of a brit.
The ICC being in the hague is like the trial of harvey weinstein being held in his house with him as the judge. It makes a mockery of justice by making the criminals the judges. But that's what the ICC is. A mockery of justice.
If that is so, then the ICC has jurisdiction over ukrainians, not russians.
So britain ( party to ICC ) could murder children in libya but that's okay since libya is not party to ICC? That's your ICC logic?
Either way, the ICC is a joke and has no place in a civilized world. That so much of africa and the colonized world was forcibly made party to it should be grounds for the dissolution of such a monstrous organization.
Or go outside with the kid. Visit a farm, park, whatever.
You mean they targeted the enemy that NATO was attacking? You are proving my point. Funny how ICC only targets the enemies of a particular group.
> Because they’ve gotten no reports of such crimes?
Really? Millions of dead children and no crimes? Amazing. But this made up nonsense about putin gets picked up right.
NATO and western europe has murdered millions of children around the world SINCE the yugoslavian war. How many NATO and western european leaders have been targeted by ICC?
This is what microsoft did well with powershell's help system. They have examples. Tons of them.
Why man pages do not is beyond me when most of the time, an example or two is all we need. I bet most people go to the man pages and then google for examples because the man pages weren't helpful.
Russia isn't a party either. And neither is ukriane.
> Russia in Ukraine has been rather unusually flagrant in its war crimes (largely, I would assume, because of the confidence they feel in their impunity.)
As opposed to what europeans did to libyan, syrian, iraqi, afghani, etc children. Or what the israelis are doing to palestinian children.
The ICC is just a political weapon europe invented to attack their enemies. That's why putin is being targeted. Just like why the ICC has only targeted former european colonies throughout its history.
Wonder why the ICC isn't targeting anyone from france, britain, etc for libya or syria. Whatever putin is alleged to have done to ukrainian children is nothing compared to what the europeans did to libyan and syrian children.