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Re: Huawei's offices in France raided by financial prosecutors

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Post by dang »

paganel wrote: post #90
dang wrote: post #89

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Could you please stop posting flamebait (including nationalistic flamebait, which you've been doing repeatedly) and/or unsubstantive comments? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. Once accounts go too far down this road, we end up having to ban them. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and adjusting so your comments are within those lines, we'd appre…

I'd also appreciate if you'd add the capability to delete our accounts/past comments, that would be swell. It would also be in the spirit of EU law, while we're talking about "nationalistic" stuff, that is. Later edit: What do you find "nationalistic" about interviews and sources like this one [1]? > Africa: How France Continues to Dominate Its Former Colonies in Africa > In France’s former African colonies, imperial…

> you guys do not like the anti-China/anti-Russia discourse to be challenged

That's not the case at all, as anyone can confirm for themselves via HN Search. Here's a list I put together for some users who were feeling this way a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/chinamod, in the China case. It's out of date now but should make the point.

But nothing you're bringing up here seems relevant to the issue of you breaking HN's rules and us needing you to stop that.

Re: Huawei's offices in France raided by financial prosecutors

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Post by gmerc »

DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #80
boricj wrote: post #42

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French news mentions that the alleged crime is atteinte à la probité or lack of probity. In other words, things like corruption, influence peddling and so on. There are scant few details available, but this might be something more serious than just plain old tax evasion.

While Alcatel, Nokia, Ericsson, had to play by the rules of their countries (not bribing officials in foreign locations), Huawei was able to gobble up most of the bids across Asia and Africa. While the Western telco players were held accountable in their bidding process, Huawei managed to gain a competitive advantage by playing under a different set of rules. For this reason it's impossible for any multinational to c…

Replace Huawei with Uber in the ride hailing space. Or basically the entire crypto space.

Move fast, break the law and buy your way out of the consequences is as much a Silicon Valley play as it is Chinese.

Re: Huawei's offices in France raided by financial prosecutors

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Post by zx8080 »

sgu999 wrote: post #84
personomas wrote: post #58

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These C-suite successful companies were at least built and designed by successful people, who succeeded by being moral human beings at least more moral than most scummy politicians. Even if the C-suite companies are no longer directed by them, which some of them are, their culture of being moral human beings tend to live on. Politicians on the other hand, like Mr. Trump, are usually born-rich buffoons who do anything…

These people are the same, they are after power and they achieve it in the same way: by being lucky first, and pernicious second. At least in our neoliberal system all these assholes are counter-powers to each other. Too bad for the environment, though. > These C-suite successful companies were at least built and designed by successful people, who succeeded by being moral human beings at least more moral Ah yes, the…

> Ah yes, the famous morality of big tobacco, as well as big oil, big pharma, big agrochemestry and now big tech.

Big anything?

Re: Huawei's offices in France raided by financial prosecutors

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Post by samus »

personomas wrote: post #65
samus wrote: post #64

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Governments don't care about "successful" companies (whatever that means) as long as they pay taxes and don't make it so obvious when they break laws that it makes them look bad if they don't react. Governments can and have to intervene if they feel that companies threaten their power and authority. To prevent that, it usually helps to lobby well. Unless they are perceived to be organs of a foreign, unfriendly govern…

In America, sure. Come over to Europe where successful companies are the politician's escape-goat. "The world is burning, and it's because of the rich, business owners, and high paying businessmen". Furthermore, the European elite hate the successful american companies with a passion, and they purposely undermine them to help their own companies instead.

The US government would do the same if European companies would be economically dominant. And it indeed gleefully persecuted Deutsche Bank and Volkswagen (IMHO well-deserved)

Re: Huawei's offices in France raided by financial prosecutors

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Post by dang »

martinsnow wrote: post #63
HermitX wrote: post #46

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I hope you and your sharp opinions make you happy. You don't need to worry about what kind of person I am.

You defend terrible people and a terrible regime. That makes you per definition a bad person.

You can't post like this here, no matter how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

We have to ban accounts that break HN's rules this badly, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the intended spirit more to heart, that would be good.

Re: Huawei's offices in France raided by financial prosecutors

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Post by fakedang »

dang wrote: post #91
paganel wrote: post #90

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I'd also appreciate if you'd add the capability to delete our accounts/past comments, that would be swell. It would also be in the spirit of EU law, while we're talking about "nationalistic" stuff, that is. Later edit: What do you find "nationalistic" about interviews and sources like this one [1]? > Africa: How France Continues to Dominate Its Former Colonies in Africa > In France’s former African colonies, imperial…

> you guys do not like the anti-China/anti-Russia discourse to be challenged That's not the case at all, as anyone can confirm for themselves via HN Search. Here's a list I put together for some users who were feeling this way a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/chinamod , in the China case. It's out of date now but should make the point. But nothing you're bringing up here seems relevant to the issue of yo…

On a tangential note, why is account deletion locked behind an email?

Re: Huawei's offices in France raided by financial prosecutors

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Post by dang »

fakedang wrote: post #96
dang wrote: post #91

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> you guys do not like the anti-China/anti-Russia discourse to be challenged That's not the case at all, as anyone can confirm for themselves via HN Search. Here's a list I put together for some users who were feeling this way a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/chinamod , in the China case. It's out of date now but should make the point. But nothing you're bringing up here seems relevant to the issue of yo…

On a tangential note, why is account deletion locked behind an email?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Re: Huawei's offices in France raided by financial prosecutors

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Post by fakedang »

dang wrote: post #97
fakedang wrote: post #96

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On a tangential note, why is account deletion locked behind an email?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Yeah, I've read that before. But couldn't a system like reddit's [deleted] be implemented here, where we retain the comments and delete the account?
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