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[–] [email protected] 3 points 54 minutes ago

Sues. Lawyers do discovery. Tencent refuses. Court fines Tencent in contempt, rules in favor of the government. Tencent tries to bribe Trump with something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 32 minutes ago

Lol sue the us?

Money vs money, go for it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

I agree with the US DoD. The large Chinese corporations are owned by CCP members and former PLA officers. Contain them until the PRC implodes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 minutes ago

So all veteran owned businesses in the US are extensions of the US military?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Not to mention I'm pretty sure all of their Chinese office buildings are literally in Military owned and operated land.

It would be like Google HQ being in the middle of a US military base.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago

Given the way things are going, the US will implode long before China does.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Every fucking Chinese company is required to be an arm of their government and provide them with any information they request. It's not even a question, they are an arm of the Chinese government. They can get fucked

[–] [email protected] 47 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Same goes for US companies.

Have we learned nothing from Snowden?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

Yeah it is similar, but not the same (at least not yet).

China is a one-party state, and the government has control over private enterprise. If you are a Chinese company, the PRC ultimately has control of it, and that means the Chinese military has access to anything you have access to, if they want it.

This is on a different level than anything Snowden released.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

There are several hundred political parties in China currently in office.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

This is on a different level than anything Snowden released.

Snowden released the fact that the major internet companies in the US literally have full time CIA staff and locked rooms with servers

Why is this on a different level? Is it because they're ASIANS?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

That Snowden releasing the facts and it being brought up in courts, state congress, and federal congress as well as national news all revolved around it being illegal in the USA.

In the PRC it's only illegal to talk about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 48 minutes ago

That Snowden releasing the facts and it being brought up in courts, state congress, and federal congress as well as national news all revolved around it being illegal in the USA.

Did it stop?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

The long and short of it is even leftie Americans have internalised American exceptionalism, even if they aren't cognisant of it. And the right are, well... Racist and don't want to admit it.

[–] fibojoly 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

China is a one-party state I wish you could realise how hilarious it is to read someone comparing the US and China on their number of political parties...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

Oh? So you are saying that there are no functional difference between a federation of 50 states, each with individual (somewhat independent) local and state governments, and the authoritarian CCP?

When I say "China is a one-party state," I'm not referring to political parties as we would understand them in the US (Democrat/Republican). I am referring to the actual structure of the government.

You might want to maybe educate yourself on what a "one-party state" means in this context before trying to make snarky comments.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

What's so hilarious about it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Both countries are acting in their own interests. Simple as that.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago

Imagine if that meant in the people's best interest.

[–] [email protected] 225 points 1 day ago (19 children)

Here's a list of websites China bans:

  • Google
  • YouTube
  • Facebook
  • Yahoo
  • Wikipedia
  • Marxists Internet Archive
  • Reddit
  • Fandom
  • Netflix
  • Zoom
  • Blogspot
  • Bing
  • Instagram
  • WhatsApp
  • Twitch
  • Roblox
  • Steam Store
  • Steam Community
  • Spotify
  • Messenger
  • X
  • LinkedIn
  • Skype
  • Tumblr
  • Pinterest
  • SoundCloud
  • Signal Private Messenger
  • Dropbox
  • Pornhub
  • XVideos
  • Medium
  • Dailymotion
  • BBC
  • The New York Times
  • Vimeo
  • The Guardian
  • SlideShare
  • Discord
  • DeviantArt
  • The Washington Post
  • Nico Video
  • Archive.org (Internet Archive)
  • Bloomberg
  • Flickr
  • Wretch
  • HuffPost
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • DuckDuckGo
  • Scratch
  • Reuters
  • NBC News -TIME
  • Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
  • Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
  • Bandcamp
  • Technorati
  • Archive of Our Own
  • Viber
  • South China Morning Post
  • Plurk
  • The Economist
  • ABC
  • Voice of America
  • Radio Free Asia
  • NBC
  • PBworks
  • The Epoch Times
  • The Epoch Times (Chinese edition)
  • HBO
  • WION
  • Hong Kong Free Press
  • Apple Daily
  • TikTok
  • ChatGPT
  • Rockstar Games
  • GitHub
  • Hugging Face
  • Flipkart
  • Zomato
  • Clubhouse
  • Swiggy
  • Truth Social
  • National Weather Service
  • Kanzhongguo (English)
  • Kanzhongguo (Chinese)
  • Microsoft Copilot
  • Telegram
  • Voice of America (Chinese)
  • Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher (by a famous anti-CCP Twitter poster)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I came into this thread just to downvote their lies.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

Yeah didn't even get to number 7 on the list before hitting a Marxist resource. Uh oh...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Xhamster slides in undetected...

[–] [email protected] 27 points 18 hours ago

That's more freedom than Texas

[–] [email protected] 28 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Basically any site that they don't have full control over/can't buy favor from and has the ability to spread info they dislike, even if it's something as simple as 2+2=4".

And if you're looking for someone outside of China to blame for their internet shield, Cisco was responsible for helping them set it up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago

And then Huawei allegedly stole Cisco's IP? Ah, the irony

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

Fuck, I'm saving this f9r future arguments. Love it!

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[–] [email protected] 160 points 1 day ago (35 children)

Of course it’s not a military company, it’s an espionage company.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 22 hours ago

Oh my, the US military might have to change the name of the list to, "Foreign companies we're blacklisting for classified reasons". How terrible.

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