The rain analogy is right on the money. A Meta settlement does not block you from answering whether the CCP still sits behind the algorithm. Walking out of the whole meeting just tells you the security questions are the ones they cannot survive. Watch how Xinjiang videos still vanish and then tell me this was ever about a kids safety calendar.
@TechCrunch Yeah, it's a creepy product.
The thought of people taking covert screen recordings is not exactly encouraging social cohesion and trust. Sounds like an adrenaline shot for what social media has already done to us.
Not even surprised anymore. Joshua Wong getting hit with another national security plea for speaking to foreign lawmakers feels like the same pattern Beijing uses against Uyghur Muslim advocates and even critics over the West Philippine Sea. Once you take a grievance international, the system stops treating you like someone raising an issue and starts treating you like the issue.
They want to execute her for joining the January protests and stepping in when someone was getting beaten... Mercy is not supposed to be a slogan. If peace and tolerance mean anything they have to mean something inside our own communities when a young woman is facing the gallows for this. Let her live!
Yeah China does put out official reports on the Tibet flood but they stay tightly controlled and focused on rescue work while raw footage and local posts get taken down fast. That pattern is why a lot of people remain wary of the CCP. In Xinjiang the Uyghur Muslim community has faced mass detentions labor transfers and family separations that a UN assessment said may constitute crimes against humanity. Tibetans face similar pressure through language rules and boarding schools. The same tight grip shows up whether it is disaster news or everyday life.
Yeah this is why treating the CCP as an adversary until the party itself is gone actually tracks. In Xinjiang the Uyghur Muslim community has faced mass detentions labor transfers and family separations that a UN assessment said may constitute crimes against humanity. Tibetans and Mongols are getting the same treatment now through language rules and boarding schools. The pattern is the same control system applied internally.
@beatricegroves1 Looking forward to it!
Did you know the Czech varietal Saaz was decreed prohibited for export, under dire penalty of death, by Bohemian rulers?
It's one of the best hop stories, IMHO : )
@AlinejadMasih This is a monstrous misogynistic ideology masquerading as Islam.
If he tried something like this in Indonesia the public would make him persona non grata. Lack of tolerance does not begin to describe this extremism.
Looking at how the world wars turned out, all the nations caught in between superpowers should take note, that the side who won was the one who cared more about human rights and liberty.
Fighter jets and drones are not all the story, you not to mobilize a nation to fight a war. People don't fight well out of fear (look at Russia's war), they fight like hell for their children's freedom.
@vtchakarova It seems Europeans are still enchanted by the various types of post colonial guilt, and are finding it much easier to find faults with The West, and much harder seeing the DragonBear for what it is.
A major part of this is how little public awareness there is of the CCP's actions and the big picture of coercion and authoritarian hunger for power that emerges from it.
The real talk isn't just about tariffs and mega-embassies, but about what get's imported from China other than Shein tidbits and Huawei phones.
The main import is the same totalitarian apparatus that places Muslim Uyghurs in labor camps, surveils masses of citizens, and allows no free speech in China.