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Two funny things about this: 1. Both Americans and China are furious at the NBA, both are threatening to boycott it. 2. Tencent just signed a $1.5 Billion streaming deal with the NBA. If the Chinese ban the NBA, then the first casualty (besides the NBA) is their own company.
Posted and talked about yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21194008 Don't know how people feel about these things being multi-posted, but I kind of like seeing a different thread where more people can comment considering top comments in a thread can be random, and also people's opinions can change as quickly as a day.
Eh, maybe I"m reading too much but having 4 or 5 articles on the front page be dedicated to China news is too much for me.
China has wide scale prison camps for ethnic minorities. Reports of organ harvesting being conducted on these people. Adds up since china has no wait time for transplants. Along with video of mass maltreatment of these people.
Then there's the clashes in Hong Kong.
That's just the top 3 problems right now. This has an international effect, whether you shrug it off or not.
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Eh, maybe I"m reading too much but having 4 or 5 articles on the front page be dedicated to China news is too much for me.
American companies are implementing Chinese censorship rules into American society because the companies are afraid of offending the communist party. China has wide scale prison camps for ethnic minorities. Reports of organ harvesting being conducted on these people. Adds up since china has no wait time for transplants. Along with video of mass maltreatment of these people. Then there's the clashes in Hong Kong. That…
Two funny things about this: 1. Both Americans and China are furious at the NBA, both are threatening to boycott it. 2. Tencent just signed a $1.5 Billion streaming deal with the NBA. If the Chinese ban the NBA, then the first casualty (besides the NBA) is their own company.
On 2, banning US media/sports which Chinese can stream for free might just be contextualized further trade retaliation. Though I think banning the NBA has actual potential for domestic backlash compared to HK.
https://github.com/hongkonggong/beyond-lennon-walls/issues/2...
A tidbit from the article: > In an indication of how the basketball dispute may be galvanizing some sectors of Chinese society, police in the northeastern province of Jilin said they had arrested on Sunday a 25-year-old man accused of making online “remarks that insult the national flag.” The man was identified by police only by his family name Wang and his online screen name on the messaging service Weibo. That acco…
A tidbit from the article: > In an indication of how the basketball dispute may be galvanizing some sectors of Chinese society, police in the northeastern province of Jilin said they had arrested on Sunday a 25-year-old man accused of making online “remarks that insult the national flag.” The man was identified by police only by his family name Wang and his online screen name on the messaging service Weibo. That acco…
Any American basketball fan is fair-weather compared to this guy. Although I wonder if it's the best hill to, possibly literally, die on.
here, a general manager of a team (not a player) showed support for free speech (the protests) and democratic values over tyranny, and the league rallied (measured) support for him. many americans then criticized the nba for not going far enough, because greed.
with the nfl, a player protests minority persecution by the police (an expression of governmental power). the league bans the respectfully protesting player (because greed) and fans cheer the oppression in the name of patriotism.
the subtext is not so flattering for us americans.
"They have 200000 soviet soldiers watching...silos full of nuclear missiles and he wants to topple them with leaflets" - https://youtu.be/F_kVbLubBxM