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Whenever you think that you’re on the outside looking in, seeing the world for what it is while others seem blind, you should reconsider your perspective. The Chinese people is not some herd of sheep without mental faculties. I wince when I see quotes like these spoken about a people of literal billions.
You do not know how easy it is to control mass populations. Open a history book
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I feel like you've got that backwards: making the site available if it violates GDPR would be violating your rights. Making the site unavailable to you is respecting them. That's not to mention that what's much more likely here is that a student focused and student run campus newspaper in West Lafayette, IN likely just considers the EU out of scope of their audience vs the cost of figuring out if they're GDPR complia…
The “cost” of being GDPR compliant is negligible if you simply put static content on your website and don’t track users.
I for one am a little tired of EU citizens telling me something doesn’t have compliance costs when I’ve been in the room when outside counsel couldn’t agree if a brochure ware site was compliant because the logs contained IP addresses.
You may wish that the regulations didn’t make the choice of blocking EU citizens the more palatable but that doesn’t make it true.
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The Chinese people will surely not write about the Americans like this. 1984 is banned there.
That's apparently wrong, and your comment thus a wonderful example of what toxik meant.
The government disallows the publication of any work by Liu Xiaobo, the determined critic of the Communist Party who in 2017 became the first Nobel Peace Prize winner since Nazi times to die in prison. Again, for a time last year Chinese citizens could not type 19, 80, and four in sequence—but they could, and still can, buy a copy of 1984, the most famous novel on authoritarianism ever written. Prefer Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World? They can buy that text, too, just as easily, although its title also joined the taboo list last winter.
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US embarrassments, however, have movies made about them, as opposed to burying them as deeply as possible whilst simultaneously threatening every single citizen with, essentially, removal from society, if they speak against the chosen narrative. No country is innocent, some are, however, free (moreso, at least, enough to matter, enough to choose if the need arises).
Those movies are more often than not glorifying such embarrassments, which make them propaganda. As an analogy for China & the US, you can say one of them is Orwellian while the other is Huxleyan. They're both oppressive, but it's about time to stop pretending only coercion is bad; propaganda is everywhere in american media and it's the same tactic used by autocracies in the 40s: spin everything you do as "us vs them…
Second, the USA/EU is not perfectly innocent wrt to propaganda, but still... it could be much worse.
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Compliance is easy : don't add the code that track users and you're compliant. If you do insist on tracking, make it opt out by default.
Since GDPR, I've had to implement a lot of data retention policy and "nuke" button type feature in various systems. But as a general web consumer myself, all I've noticed is that nearly every website I visit has a banner at the bottom saying "We use cookies, click Accept". Very rarely is there some kind of "Please Don't" button. It's just tacit acceptance, or else close the browser tab to opt-out.
Response from the student: https://old.reddit.com/r/Purdue/comments/ri95tp/in_response_...
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“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ~ George Orwell, 1984
Whenever you think that you’re on the outside looking in, seeing the world for what it is while others seem blind, you should reconsider your perspective. The Chinese people is not some herd of sheep without mental faculties. I wince when I see quotes like these spoken about a people of literal billions.
The (Chinese) people are the victims in this.
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If it costs more than zero and you don’t care about euros not visiting your site, it makes sense. For example if you have ads or external analytics (practically 100% of websites) you need a cookie banner. Best to restrict access than to annoy your innocent users.
You realistically don’t need to do anything at all. It’s just spite at this point.
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This publication is independent and not run by the school.
Right, but surely they have resources at the school if they need technical assistance. It's a university. Just find any CS major and they'll tell you how to set up a website.
I collaborated with some EE and ME students on personal projects, but they were 1) more interesting than GDPR and 2) friends.
There is a lot of reading between the lines necessary because of the network of reporting from other Chinese that’s worldwide.
Note: those actual opinions are not necessarily “life is baaaad what a niiightmare”, they can be quite nuanced just like anywhere else. Something as simple as “I kind of liked that unsanctioned rendition of the Chinese national anthem” could have the same consequences for them and their family as a total denouncement of the Party.
Single party control, coupled with a constitution with articles that undermine all the other parts of the constitution, can really impact the experience to express anything.