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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a fucking grotesque company.

[–] Hanabie 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a Chinese state company, and China has a vested interest in controlling,or at least influencing Afghanistan, so Russia can't.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Thank Christ they aren’t sold here in the states. Can you imagine a Chinese owned tech in your pocket or in a form of an app used by millions? Oh god even worse, a US owned app or device in your pocket or a device listening to you in your home… /s

The least surprising thing about this news is that they announced they are in Afghanistan with decent enough service with all those mountain ranges. Why is this news?

Sorry not be a cynical duck about this news, but we have zero day chip incidents from China, known spyware being masked as social media, doesn’t matter where it comes from most if not all spy on you. And most companies admit it

[–] Hanabie 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sure, but I'd rather Google spy on me to market my data for targeted ads than a country that runs literal concentration camps and is just across the Taiwan strait, basically a stone's throw from where I live.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have been banned from c/Beijing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Wait, I know you're referencing /r/Pyongyang, but did those guys move over to Lemmy? I mean, a North Korean-owned instance for /c/Pyongyang (and other communities for North Korean topics, etc) is possible, perhaps even better for DPRK's propaganda.

But then again, it might not make much sense for DPRK's propaganda since… well, numbers.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

The Republicans should just realize they're basically the same thing as Muslim fundamentalists and move there. They can do all they're favorite things. Ride around in trucks, shoot guns, oppress women and minorities.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Taliban doesn't have the money or manpower to effectively launch a surveillance state. As the article notes, they're trying, and failing, to stop Islamic State terrorist attacks in Kabul.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/19/asia/isis-k-attacks-afghanistan-taliban-cmd-intl/index.html

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah… that’ll end well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

99.9% despising + 0.1% surprising
100 x worse than Amazon's surveillance of employees, yet same trend.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Only somewhat related, but I'm pretty sure that photo is from the law courts in Vancouver, Canada, and the spelling makes me suspect it's AI generated.