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Meta have long profited from knowingly aiding and abetting the enemies of the West by undermining our societies from within. Meta are the greatest force against freedom in the worl…

We need to get over the idea that criminals and geopolitical aggressors have human rights. Human rights should only be afforded to the law-abiding.

Two wrongs don't make a right. Even if a certain large Asian country has carefully constructed a pretext to do do out of confected historical grievance, and entitlement to 'rise' a…

I'm wondering what the grift here is. Usually, the pattern is that we see a tsunami of planted "China number one" stories boosted by hordes of Chinese "internet commentators", and …

These days, Amazon do a lot of print-on-demand which gives bootleg quality, and there's no way to tell if you're going to get it, and there seems to be no way to avoid it.

Not correct. Sodium-ion batteries were invented in the United States in the 1970s.

Wars and self-destruction, if they happen, will be purely the responsibility of the Chinese side, who have been caught numerous times hacking, spying, copying and stealing the hard…

Please enlighten me -- if a robber pulls a gun on me in the street and demands my wallet, or if a burglar robs my house, then in what way must I blame myself? Normal human beings w…

China's predatory and anti-competitive trade practices, undervalued yuan, hacking, espionage, IP theft, etc., need to be formally recognised and penalised. They have lied, cheated …

De jure one-party system. No other political parties are permitted.

The NSA have Congressional oversight and are held accountable for their (mis)deeds, more or less. The Chinese MSS and the Chinese Communist Party itself aren't even accountable to …

The people who raised concerns about the awful things the Chinese Communist Party has done in the process are unfortunately unavailable for comment.

The extreme downvoting of certain viewpoints that are less-than-flattering about China's conduct in the AI race is quite telling. They seem to have given themselves license to do w…

The Spanish government trusting the CCP over Palantir is wild. The CCP's intolerant, cruel and authoritarian nature is a direct threat to humanity in ways that Peter Thiel could ba…

So what is being described here? Scratch-built self-replicating nano-machines inspired by biology? That itself seems significant.

I'm sorry - did I trigger you? On one hand -- I read the opinion of one anonymous random on the internet posting a Russian-accented sneer, trotting out the usual Russian disinforma…

I'd go further (as a parent of kids of school age): It takes a village to raise a child. It's all well and good for childless techbros to say "Raise your kids" properly, and be sub…

I did think it was interesting to read that Steve Jobs banned his kids from having screen in their rooms on day 1. Zuckerberg apparently does the same. What do the billionaires kno…

Most continential Europeans, like in Spain and France, have mandatory strong ID. I have never seen "paper please" there. This argument simply doesn't work.

(This comment is addressed to peer comments, not the parent post.) It's silly to say "Get better at parenting", when parents who have no specialist training, are literally facing o…

Techno-libertarianism was always a con. I'm convinced it was an information operation organised by enemies of the West to "prep the battlefield" to enable revisionist state aggress…

"Project Green" There are some sly word games happening there. Although to be fair, it does roll off the tongue better than "Project Jeff Wants Another Yacht".