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> In the world of international relations, there really are no good guys. Bhutan. Bhutan are the good guys.
Bhutan engaged in ethnic cleansing and expelled over 100,000 Lhotshampa into Nepal.
For anyone else: https://thediplomat.com/2016/09/bhutans-dark-secret-the-lhot...
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I can post on Facebook that I disagree with president Trump and he is a liar, try doing the same in China. (Please don't take my comment as a suggestion about President Trump, just trying to make a point).
Try posting that you don't think he is a liar and see if any of your faceberg friends see your post. We're not far off from china levels of censorship. Look at the NBA as of late.
So HN changed the headline to remove TikTok which is a name I reconized and replaced it with "ByteDance" and "Musical.ly", which I've never heard of before. It was originally displayed on HN the same as it is in the article. From the article, I know that the new headline is more precise. But it's much less informative, I wouldn't have clicked the article under this name.
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They also edited a headline for a #1 ranked story about Blizzard and the Hong Kong issue, removing Hong Kong from the headline entirely. HN sort of reminds me of China -- a dictatorship with zero transparency and a penchant for manipulation. Edit: Can't forget the spineless bootlickers who are hopelessly devoted to the state! You know you've struck a nerve when the best 'reply' they can offer is a silent downvote.
The phrase spineless bootlicker is such an internet citizen phrase. Outrage culture signaling with respect to language is always so fascinating.
So HN changed the headline to remove TikTok which is a name I reconized and replaced it with "ByteDance" and "Musical.ly", which I've never heard of before. It was originally displayed on HN the same as it is in the article. From the article, I know that the new headline is more precise. But it's much less informative, I wouldn't have clicked the article under this name.
https://news.ycombinator.com is run by M5 Hosting out of San Diego. M5 Hosting is also known as M5 Computer Security out of San Diego. These firms are a strange choice for a place like YCombinator to host I think.
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The phrase spineless bootlicker is such an internet citizen phrase. Outrage culture signaling with respect to language is always so fascinating.
Any thoughts on the actual topic, or did your attention span prevent that?
If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
So HN changed the headline to remove TikTok which is a name I reconized and replaced it with "ByteDance" and "Musical.ly", which I've never heard of before. It was originally displayed on HN the same as it is in the article. From the article, I know that the new headline is more precise. But it's much less informative, I wouldn't have clicked the article under this name.
Wouldn't a more accurate and informative title include "TikTok's owner Beijing ByteDance"
Musical.ly was started by entrepreneurs in Shanghai. Although it may have had US and Japanese investors, I don't think it was an American company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical.ly >"It’s the first company to be headquartered in China, designed in China, but popular in the US," said Greylock investor Josh Elman. "Finally we’re seeing talented people who live in that ecosystem in that world and actually transce…
"TikTok also says China does not have jurisdiction over content of the app, which does not operate in China and is not influenced by any foreign government." If it's a Chinese company, why is TikTok saying that China has zero jurisdiction over the app? Besides that, the US can require that Bytedance peel off TikTok / Musical.ly. If Bytedance wants access to the US market with that app, it will have to play by US rule…
If Bytedance wants access to the US market with that app, it will simply relocate servers outside of USA. That's it.
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I challenge you to find a person in Eastern Europe or Middle East who wouldn’t crack up reading your comment. The realpolitik the US, China and Russia use are very similar.
As a person who spent majority of his life in Russia, your comment is the one that makes me crack up, not the parent one. And I can safely say that the same would hold true for most of the people from those countries who were lucky enough to be exposed to all sides of coverage on the issue. If you think the way western media covers things is biased and dishonest (which it sometimes is, I admit), you have no idea how…
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Alex Zhu and Luyu Yang don't sound very Californian to me.
Really? As both a SoCal and Bay Area resident name alone would tell me absolutely nothing about whether someone was a native to either area.