Bing is already operational in China. This headline is clickbait - these rules apply to all online media companies, domestic and foreign. Google's current rounds in the news cycle landed it in the headline - nothing more specific.
China just laid out how it wants Google to help it persecute its Muslim minority
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Re: China just laid out how it wants Google to help it persecute its Muslim minority
#12Bing is already operational in China. This headline is clickbait - these rules apply to all online media companies, domestic and foreign. Google's current rounds in the news cycle landed it in the headline - nothing more specific.
Nobody is debating that it’s not already happening. We’re merely pointing out that it’s morally wrong. (Save me the false equivalences in the USA — we’re far better off than nearly every county wrt free speech).
Re: China just laid out how it wants Google to help it persecute its Muslim minority
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google does not rely on the Chinese market. If anything the Chinese rely on western markets and that includes the startups and factories within China. They’re going to need the western market more than their own in the future. Rich nations import and export. China’s exporting far more than its importing.
I doesn't rely on China because it decided to leave. Now it has to come back, or it will be shut out of a market of billions. China is either the first or second largest world economy based on how you want to measure. It's rapid growth alone will assure Chinese economic power if not outright hegemony for the next century. China is also growing it's sphere of influence. Google is a corporation like any other, and if i…
China is indeed catching up. Production of technology is done there because labor is cheap (being a producer does not imply innovation). Chinese companies still have a way to go to become mainstream in the western world. The blade cuts both ways, China needs the west at least as much as the other way around.
Re: China just laid out how it wants Google to help it persecute its Muslim minority
#14Does this mean Bing is already doing this?
Yes, it does.