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President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment

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Re: President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment

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Post by gpvos »

setgree wrote: post #12
ReleaseCandidat wrote: post #2

What you get in the EU: 451: Unavailable due to legal reasons We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time. For any issues, contact help@purdueexponent.org or call 765-743-1111.

It's also elsewhere, e.g. on reddit https://old.reddit.com/r/Purdue/comments/rh81c0/mitch_letter... I am surprised it's blocked in the EU. My first guess is that this student newspaper doesn't have a lot of technical folks on staff and didn't see much point in investing in being Europe-friendly. Their hosting site, https://townnews.com/ , doesn't look super legit at a glance but perhaps someone else knows more.

Being GDPR-friendly is easy.

Re: President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment

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Post by Msw242 »

qeternity wrote: post #27
Msw242 wrote: post #19

Please report any suspected collaborators with the Chinese secret police to the DEI campus safety board. All suspects will need to report to the DEI offices for re-education. Joking, but they literally do the exact same shit to Republicans.

Purdue is not a coastal liberal arts university. You’re unlikely to find support for restrictions on freedom of speech there.

https://cm.maxient.com/reportingform.php?PurdueUniv&layout_i...

They even include "offensive classroom comment" as a category

Re: President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment

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Post by cafard »

ospzfmbbzr wrote: post #32

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If you have ever attended a college in the US, you must have had to submit a list of vaccinations, with their dates. I remember digging through files to to find my son's list.

And for a little context: Mitch Daniels is a Republican, twice governor of Indiana. The form of political correctness you have in mind (which I think is improperly taken to include vaccination requirements) does not flourish in Republican circles.

Re: President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment

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Post by oxymoran »

The brainwashing must be strong for students thousands of miles away from China in the middle of nowhere Indiana for them to feel the need to snitch on dissenters. Or, more likely, they were threatened before they left China that they would be watched while abroad.

Re: President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment

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Post by sebow »

Msw242 wrote: post #19

Please report any suspected collaborators with the Chinese secret police to the DEI campus safety board. All suspects will need to report to the DEI offices for re-education. Joking, but they literally do the exact same shit to Republicans.

That might be hard.If i recall correctly a few years ago there were some numbers indicating somewhere between 1-3 million people who were either "proper spying", doing espionage(industrial,research,etc) or having ties(actively involved, not merely having relatives/distant connections) with China living in the US.[I will edit with a source assuming it still is online, otherwise i have to dig in my local data]

This happens a lot at 'FAANG-tier' companies, but then again screening employees is virtually impossible at this scale, US companies still have an advantage and they remain ahead of the competition because copying/leaking information takes time, and the re-engineering also takes time.Academia is a sensitive area, because on one hand you have to be transparent and keep discourse public and open, but on the other hand state-sponsored entities actively engage in battles(especially cybernetic ones) to control narratives about certain subjects, especially in 'public spaces'.

Re: President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment

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Post by Majestic121 »

qeternity wrote: post #24
setgree wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's also elsewhere, e.g. on reddit https://old.reddit.com/r/Purdue/comments/rh81c0/mitch_letter... I am surprised it's blocked in the EU. My first guess is that this student newspaper doesn't have a lot of technical folks on staff and didn't see much point in investing in being Europe-friendly. Their hosting site, https://townnews.com/ , doesn't look super legit at a glance but perhaps someone else knows more.

As an American living in London, I find GDPR blocks extremely annoying…but I blame GDPR. It is a well intentioned law but horribly scoped. If I were the technical staff at a regional university in the US, I wouldn’t invest in compliance with a law that in theory can issue severe penalties. I would simply block that traffic, as they and many others have done.

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.

Re: President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment

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Post by Miner49er »

fefe23 wrote: post #8

I find it highly entertaining that they talk about denying rights and then deny the whole of the EU access because they insist on violating their readers' privacy rights and that would be illegal in the EU.

What makes you day they are violating readers' privacy rights? It's a not-for-profit student newspaper, they probably just don't want to risk GDPR fines. Or they don't expect readers from Europe.

Re: President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment

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Post by netcan »

"Those seeking to deny those rights" are not, in the sense that matters, individual students. This is a state pursuit, a state seeking to...

Chinese points of priority are going to continue increasing in relevance. "Is the CCP good?" is not an acceptable conversation topic, in chinese, even in Purdue. Superpower superpowers, so to speak. The US has some of these too.

Re: President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment

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Post by gpvos »

thanatos519 wrote: post #29
ReleaseCandidat wrote: post #2

What you get in the EU: 451: Unavailable due to legal reasons We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time. For any issues, contact help@purdueexponent.org or call 765-743-1111.

I don't quite understand how EEA GDPR regulations can extend to entities with no European footprint at all, such as this student newspaper. Can't they just issue cookies and give the EU the finger?

Chances are basically 100% that the EU won't go after a student newspaper, so in practice yes. But in theory no.
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