verroq

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Comment · 5 years ago

And this is for the FBI, why is Apple acting as the government’s proxy?

Comment · 5 years ago

Why are you so scared of people being allowed to express their political power? Words and rhetoric is how it’s always been. Are you for censoring all political speech? Given the highly partisan nature of the censorship, difficult to not see it being politically motivated.

Comment · 5 years ago

Taiwan (Republic of China) maintains a claim to territory currently occupied by the CCP (People’s republic of China). And vice versa for the CCP.

Comment · 5 years ago

We are not talking about trump. We are talking about Apple, who is forcing other companies to censor their user’s speech and acting as judge and jury on what is acceptable.

Comment · 5 years ago

This is just the same lame four excuses [0] to justify censorship and mass surveillance. Just replace terrorism with “inciting violence”.

Now the government doesn’t even need to get their hands dirty to censor the internet, private companies enforce it themselves with with impunity.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocal...

Comment · 5 years ago

A screenshot from ngabbs is supposed to prove what exactly?

Comment · 5 years ago

Not an argument.

Comment · 5 years ago

Sure looks anti-competitive when Parler is deleted from all the app stores now doesn’t it? And we have people vocally calling for Cloudflare and AWS to deny them hosting services.

Comment · 5 years ago

Yes but do you? When Twitter suspends your speech do you have a press office to get your word out? If they dare to do it to the president you think they have any reservations about censoring anyone else?

Comment · 5 years ago

The relative strengths of the nations help to dictate the terms. Treaty of Nanking was signed after the defeat of the Qing army, you think the terms were favourable to the Qing Emperor?

Comment · 5 years ago

    > For all the non-TSLA holders on HN (there are many) - is there a price at which you will admit TSLA is successful? And if not, what is the reasoning behind why you will forever see TSLA as unsuccessful? Thank you

Comment · 5 years ago

China has always been an unequal playing ground for foreign companies. If you want Chinese money, then you get your local Chinese partner company and start the technology transfer.

It’s only fair Chinese companies in America receive some reciprocal treatment.

Comment · 5 years ago

Then why wasn’t it used? Surely all these governments all have heard of apple/google’s superior solution. Reality undermines this argument.