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I feel like there is a litany of the internet: "that which can be collected will be." That's been true since the beginning. What continues to surprise me is that people think only "bad guys" do it. This is why we continue to lock down browsers and provide ever narrower permission classes.
That's because only "bad guys" do this. If a "good buy" does this, they automatically become a "bad guy".
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People are going to reply to you with the usual "we are better than them", "we are a democracy" etc., but reciprocity clauses are very common in areas like international trade, travel, disarmament treaties, emissions control and lots more. In fact China would never have been allowed into the WTO (which happened in 2001) had they not made sweeping changes to their economy and assured the world that they would compete…
> reciprocity clauses are very common in areas like [...] Distributing software for you to run on your own hardware is speech, though, and it's protected by the first amendment. You can license the distribution of your own software if you want, but you can't tell me I can't give you software if you want it. Basically: how do you think this would work, in a way that wouldn't also make Linux or gcc or whatever availabl…
I just don't understand how we can allow a Chinese social media app in the west, while any non-chinese social media apps aren't allowed there? Same with housing, why can Chinese nationals buy housing here, while I can't do so there?
I just don't understand how we can allow a Chinese social media app in the west, while any non-chinese social media apps aren't allowed there? Same with housing, why can Chinese nationals buy housing here, while I can't do so there?
Suddenly doesn't seem to work so well when a Chinese app is granted that privilege.
I just don't understand how we can allow a Chinese social media app in the west, while any non-chinese social media apps aren't allowed there? Same with housing, why can Chinese nationals buy housing here, while I can't do so there?
Because we are the West, and China is China. We have different laws and customs.
Can websites protect against this through the use of Content Security Policy (CSP) [0]? [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP
I just don't understand how we can allow a Chinese social media app in the west, while any non-chinese social media apps aren't allowed there? Same with housing, why can Chinese nationals buy housing here, while I can't do so there?
What happened to free speech being the bastion of America and the only thing that can counter misinformation and propaganda? Suddenly doesn't seem to work so well when a Chinese app is granted that privilege.
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People are going to reply to you with the usual "we are better than them", "we are a democracy" etc., but reciprocity clauses are very common in areas like international trade, travel, disarmament treaties, emissions control and lots more. In fact China would never have been allowed into the WTO (which happened in 2001) had they not made sweeping changes to their economy and assured the world that they would compete…
Why is it unfair?
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People are going to reply to you with the usual "we are better than them", "we are a democracy" etc., but reciprocity clauses are very common in areas like international trade, travel, disarmament treaties, emissions control and lots more. In fact China would never have been allowed into the WTO (which happened in 2001) had they not made sweeping changes to their economy and assured the world that they would compete…
Why is it unfair?
However the true question here is more likely to be "what does unfair mean".