Hong Kong pro-democracy Stand News shuts down after police raid, arrests

15-20 years ago I naively thought that many of the Big Tech companies would stand against this type of censorship. Sadly I was wrong and didn’t understand how important it was to have access to the Chinese market and the importance of China’s low-cost manufacturing for these companies as well.

Today, the Big Tech companies might not actively support this kind of censorship, but they aren’t aggressively working against it as I thought they would 15 years ago.

Re: Hong Kong pro-democracy Stand News shuts down after police raid, arrests

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Post by causi » Wed, Dec 29, 2021, 12:39 PM UTC

barney54 wrote: post #7

15-20 years ago I naively thought that many of the Big Tech companies would stand against this type of censorship. Sadly I was wrong and didn’t understand how important it was to have access to the Chinese market and the importance of China’s low-cost manufacturing for these companies as well. Today, the Big Tech companies might not actively support this kind of censorship, but they aren’t aggressively working agains…

Fifteen years ago big tech's bottom line depended on a lack of censorship. Now it depends on censoring in some areas. Treating companies as anything other than barely-restrained sociopaths is always a mistake.

Re: Hong Kong pro-democracy Stand News shuts down after police raid, arrests

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Post by octopoc » Wed, Dec 29, 2021, 12:41 PM UTC

This is yet another violation of the Sino-British Joint Declaration, the treaty between China and the U.K. defining how Hong Kong will be handed over to China[1]:

> Hong Kong would maintain its existing governing and economic systems separate from that of mainland China under the principle of "one country, two systems".

The West needs to realize: China does not uphold its own treaties.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-British_Joint_Declaration

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Post by schleck8 » Wed, Dec 29, 2021, 12:43 PM UTC

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What is propaganda about this story? Not once have I read a noticeably biased piece from Reuters.

That's because they are a wire service and sell to both sides of the political spectrum (including chinese state media by the way, you'll find reuters cited as source or they use the pre-made articles from reuters' news wire)

https://africa.cgtn.com/author/reuters/ or https://america.cgtn.com/anchors-corresp/reuters