Skype banned from China
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Skype banned from China
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Re: Skype banned from China
#2This is entirely unrelated, but it reminds me of a comment I saw on reddit that was very telling. Someone was talking about a colleague of his who was Chinese and had come to the US, and who, over dinner with some other colleagues, said: "I can't believe how smooth your propaganda is here in the US. In China it is crude and everyone can see through it, but here you almost miss it." To which all of the other colleagues replied: "What are you talking about? We don't have propaganda in the US!"
I wish I could find it, it was very telling of the climate in China (I assume, I've never been).
Re: Skype banned from China
#3false positive? just used skype few hours ago (in china). Tom-skype actually does have a VOIP license. The original news was circling in chinese media days ago but no one really gives a $@/7 coz bans like this occurs every year
Re: Skype banned from China
#4This is entirely unrelated, but it reminds me of a comment I saw on reddit that was very telling. Someone was talking about a colleague of his who was Chinese and had come to the US, and who, over dinner with some other colleagues, said: "I can't believe how smooth your propaganda is here in the US. In China it is crude and everyone can see through it, but here you almost miss it." To which all of the other colleague…
I would say that anecdote is more telling of the alleged climate in the United States, depending on how you read it.
Re: Skype banned from China
#5The thing to remember with China is that there is a law on the books so that practically everything is illegal. The law isn't there to tell you what you can or can't do, it's there so that if you piss off the wrong people they can come down on you like a ton of bricks "legally".
Re: Skype banned from China
#6This is entirely unrelated, but it reminds me of a comment I saw on reddit that was very telling. Someone was talking about a colleague of his who was Chinese and had come to the US, and who, over dinner with some other colleagues, said: "I can't believe how smooth your propaganda is here in the US. In China it is crude and everyone can see through it, but here you almost miss it." To which all of the other colleague…
I would say that anecdote is more telling of the alleged climate in the United States, depending on how you read it.
I had a Chinese girl lecture me on how I was taken in by propaganda by believing that the Yuan/RMB was not pegged to gold. I had proof that it was pegged to the US dollar from 3 independent reliable sources but she wouldn't believe any of it.
Banning skype is simply an ineffective attempt to protect the propaganda misinformation machines in the people's republic of China.
Re: Skype banned from China
#7false positive? just used skype few hours ago (in china). Tom-skype actually does have a VOIP license. The original news was circling in chinese media days ago but no one really gives a $@/7 coz bans like this occurs every year
Skype's been deemed illegal, but that doesn't mean it won't work in China (like so many other illegal things there). As the story says, no one is sure how the government will enforce the ban yet. This is likely a stall tactic to allow state run competitors to play catch up.
Re: Skype banned from China
#8The thing to remember with China is that there is a law on the books so that practically everything is illegal. The law isn't there to tell you what you can or can't do, it's there so that if you piss off the wrong people they can come down on you like a ton of bricks "legally".
The law isn't there to tell you what you can or can't do, it's there so that if you piss off the wrong people they can come down on you like a ton of bricks "legally".
Ahh, then it's like the US tax code.
Re: Skype banned from China
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would say that anecdote is more telling of the alleged climate in the United States, depending on how you read it.
I had a Chinese girl lecture me on how I was taken in by propaganda by believing that the Yuan/RMB was not pegged to gold. I had proof that it was pegged to the US dollar from 3 independent reliable sources but she wouldn't believe any of it. Banning skype is simply an ineffective attempt to protect the propaganda misinformation machines in the people's republic of China.
> Banning skype is simply an ineffective attempt to protect the propaganda misinformation machines in the people's republic of China.
It's also very probably economic protectionism.
Re: Skype banned from China
#10Wait, China allowed Skype? Where has their protectionism gone?