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(Also, touchbar = Darth Vader. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NCm_-GZ-Dc )
bowing to Chinese dictatorship, so sad. then again, Facebook/Snapchat also has no shame bowing as well. good thing Google has a backbone
Not really. NYT has solidly established themselves as a fake news site. It's very reasonable to protect the public from such propaganda sites that post fake news, do you not agree?
Looks like the Chinese government would like to ensure that its citizens do not fall victim to 'fake news' and has thus taken on the responsibility of 'fact checking'.
China's been 'fact checking' far longer than the internet has existed.
So China has been fact checking for twenty years longer than the internet has existed.
source: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs201/projects/commu...
"Blocking misinformation will help protect the [Facebook's] brand and credibility."
source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/sunday/facebook-an...
bowing to Chinese dictatorship, so sad. then again, Facebook/Snapchat also has no shame bowing as well. good thing Google has a backbone
How did Facebook bow to China? AFAICT we are still blocked there. Disclaimer: I work for FB, this is my personal opinion
Looks like the Chinese government would like to ensure that its citizens do not fall victim to 'fake news' and has thus taken on the responsibility of 'fact checking'.
If the Communist party decided to replace all online censorship with modals saying how wrong the website was, and you could just click through the modal, I would consider that progress in China.
I wonder what is the largest legal entity a company like Apple or Google would be willing to flip the middle finger to and say "No, you are ridiculous, feel free to ban us." At some point the demands just become so onerous that you either have to have separate SKUs for that legal region (extra expensive) or you have to put the same backdoors or restrictions in all your products (which makes the product inferior for c…
Apple clearly isn't going to, although at least they have a very pro-encryption stance that we already know China isn't keen on. Google already bowed years ago. They tried to stay out of China on principle with search didn't they? But in the end the market was just too big and they entered it. It's easy to take a principled stance against North Korea (where users don't get a choice) or a smaller country that's pretty…
Can anyone from China list what U.S. news apps are available? I would love to know who sold out.
[It seems reasonable to note, here, that the same logic applies to coverage of the American government -- despite the lack of censors. Perhaps they leverage access to privileged information -- why leak something important to someone who dredges up garbage about you the other six days a week.]
I remember that Reddit bans foreign news outlets from its news subreddits.
I remember that Facebook censored people trying to post Snowden Documents in the US.
This is a global phenomenon. We should do everything in our power to reverse this trend in the United States so that we have the credibility to criticize China for doing the same.