Lord... That's such a simplistic black and white view of the world. You're either for us or you're against us. This is the toxic juvenile attitude that's so scary honestly. One can express support for a particular…
I'm not complaining or comparing myself to anyone. I didn't say I support the CCP either. Just explaining why people might use throwaway accounts If I was currently living in China I wouldn't be posting anything…
How is beating pets to death political posturing..? Someone thought it'd make them look good? Most likely it was some misinformed overzealous local official. Pets from pretty early on in the pandemic have been known to…
Ironically both articles come from a very typically western patronizing perspective A lot of expats come to asia and get frustrated with many small cultural details. It's especially prominent when the person doesn't…
If the government is out to get you, then yeah you're screwed. If it's you against a company - then you typically have more protections than I think the typical western reader would expect. I personally know people that…
Yeah, I think it's a scenario where you can probably sue and you can probably win - but then (just like in the US) you're known as the person that sues their employer and it's a black mark. I haven't heard of people…
I don't know where people get the idea people are semi-enslaved in factories.. Having lived in China, in my second hand experience Chinese worker protection laws are quite strict. Somewhere between US and Europe. It's…
B/c there is no sense of justice about it. It's just the arbitrary fickleness of some decision maker and it can't be appealed. The US government alleges they (Huawei ZTE etc.) colluding to put backdoors in…
Yeah I saw Minority Report. I know about future crime :) Now I'm imagining clones in vats at CIA headquarters telling them which companies will turn evil. I dunno man, in the US you don't just ban people and companies…
I think singling out China or the PLA is kinda the problem... Just any government/military controlled company from any country arguably is an issue. If you make it more country agnostic then it's going to be taken more…
"it's the Orwellian thought-suppression psy-ops stuff." I mean that's like a "bigger" issue. I think it's a completely fair to decide you should just not conduct business with companies under authoritarian regimes (see…
This whole things looks more and more embarrassing. From the outside it just looks like the US is struggling to compete and so they create extrajudicial barriers based on "secret evidence" to block competitors. The…
Lord... That's such a simplistic black and white view of the world. You're either for us or you're against us. This is the toxic juvenile attitude that's so scary honestly. One can express support for a particular…
I'm not complaining or comparing myself to anyone. I didn't say I support the CCP either. Just explaining why people might use throwaway accounts If I was currently living in China I wouldn't be posting anything…
How is beating pets to death political posturing..? Someone thought it'd make them look good? Most likely it was some misinformed overzealous local official. Pets from pretty early on in the pandemic have been known to…
Ironically both articles come from a very typically western patronizing perspective A lot of expats come to asia and get frustrated with many small cultural details. It's especially prominent when the person doesn't…
If the government is out to get you, then yeah you're screwed. If it's you against a company - then you typically have more protections than I think the typical western reader would expect. I personally know people that…
Yeah, I think it's a scenario where you can probably sue and you can probably win - but then (just like in the US) you're known as the person that sues their employer and it's a black mark. I haven't heard of people…
I don't know where people get the idea people are semi-enslaved in factories.. Having lived in China, in my second hand experience Chinese worker protection laws are quite strict. Somewhere between US and Europe. It's…
B/c there is no sense of justice about it. It's just the arbitrary fickleness of some decision maker and it can't be appealed. The US government alleges they (Huawei ZTE etc.) colluding to put backdoors in…
Yeah I saw Minority Report. I know about future crime :) Now I'm imagining clones in vats at CIA headquarters telling them which companies will turn evil. I dunno man, in the US you don't just ban people and companies…
I think singling out China or the PLA is kinda the problem... Just any government/military controlled company from any country arguably is an issue. If you make it more country agnostic then it's going to be taken more…
"it's the Orwellian thought-suppression psy-ops stuff." I mean that's like a "bigger" issue. I think it's a completely fair to decide you should just not conduct business with companies under authoritarian regimes (see…
This whole things looks more and more embarrassing. From the outside it just looks like the US is struggling to compete and so they create extrajudicial barriers based on "secret evidence" to block competitors. The…