U.S. attorney general: Hollywood, tech companies “pawns of Chinese influence”
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#2Original title: "Attorney General Barr accuses Hollywood, Big Tech of collaborating with China"
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We opened completely free trade to China so businesses could cut labor costs decades ago. It's just built into our system. What did everyone expect?
You're absolutely right that this is another red scare. It's honestly reminiscent of post 9/11 domestic support of the majority of USA population to bomb the middle east. You're not even allowed to talk about China in US society anymore unless you're furious with rage for them.
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#5They need to be called out. The amount of virtue signaling these companies do in the US does not excuse their actions elsewhere.
This is not confined to the US either, countries in other parts of the world will engage in actions for the Chinese government they would not do at home or without great public fanfare about how they are against it.
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#6> Barr suggested that Apple iPhones “wouldn’t be sold (in China) if they were impervious to penetration by Chinese authorities.” He suggested American tech companies were imposing a “double standard.”
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#7What it really comes down to is determining if we are doing the Cold War thing or not.
To many of us, the cold war is over, and the other 300 years of rolling the nation state concept across the world is over too. As it is very easy to operate in a borderless global economy - at least between major economic unions - if you are privileged enough.
If you absolutely need people to pick a side again, just say so. Otherwise you need to realize that its all in your head, not everyone is looking at the world the same way, both/all major countries are very similar and this will always be a "trigger" for you when people point it out.
But if this is really so irreconcilable and necessary for people to pick a side because we're doing the cold war thing again, then you need to say so. Americans will pick America if thats what its coming down to. But just assuming we are in that state and that everyone else is assuming the same thing, thats just going to go nowhere.
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#9This about the USG not having as many spying capabilities as China, not about shoring up spying capabilities of China.
For reference EARNIT act
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/earn-it-act-violates-c...
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We opened completely free trade to China so businesses could cut labor costs decades ago. It's just built into our system. What did everyone expect? You're absolutely right that this is another red scare. It's honestly reminiscent of post 9/11 domestic support of the majority of USA population to bomb the middle east. You're not even allowed to talk about China in US society anymore unless you're furious with rage fo…
I'd like to try an experiment where China ends the ongoing slavery and genocides within its borders and let's see if there's less rage.