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This is why China bans these companies long ago. Imagine handing your population’s intel on a silver platter to your adversary.
by marderfarker2 5y ago
This is why China bans these companies long ago. Imagine handing your population’s intel on a silver platter to your adversary.
- lostlogin 5y agoWhen you’re actively persecuting a portion of your population, why not monetise it too?
- footlose_3815 5y agoToo bad we were slow to do the same thing with all the shitty lazily-named Chinese phone manufacturers like OnePlus who have free reign to skim our devices.
- est31 5y agoOne Plus, using a number and a sign, is lazily named as opposed to what? A company that's named after a misspelled number? A company named after the first two greek letters? A company named after a river in south america? A company named after fruits?
- arvigeus 5y agoThese companies are banned for refusing to share the data they collect with the government. Essentially the Chinese government is a competitor when comes to harvesting user data, not a privacy guard.
- marderfarker2 5y agoI don’t think it is ever intended to be a privacy guard but data exfiltration prevention and admittedly to control the narrative, as does with every country including your own for obvious reasons.
- ghostcluster 5y agoChrome is still the most popular desktop browser in China by far, and has a significant chunk of the mobile market. https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/china https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/china
- Thorrez 5y agoDoes China ban any non-LinkedIn Microsoft services or Apple services? I though they didn't. Signal is blocked in China, and I'm pretty sure it isn't handing the population's intel over to anyone. Full disclosure I work at Google.