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Do you still believe this considering those companies live and die by the CCP? Would you feel differently if scale was reversed and Meta was the upstart trying

by ford 24d ago

Do you still believe this considering those companies live and die by the CCP? Would you feel differently if scale was reversed and Meta was the upstart trying to compete with Xiaomi/etc? I'm right there with you questioning Meta's value for society, but I do believe it has less opportunity for abuse/manipulation

well_ackshually 24d ago
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throwaw12 24d ago
> those companies live and die by the CCP I don't care about internal politics of a state, as long as they are not killing people deliberately on a daily basis or invading other countries and killing their people. How government is structured is up to Chinese people to decide > Would you feel differently if scale was reversed and Meta was the upstart trying to compete with Xiaomi/etc? It's not only about scale and upstart, it's also about how much are they harming society.
- reliabilityguy 24d ago
  > I don't care about internal politics of a state, as long as they are not killing people deliberately What about forced cultural assimilation and re-education camps? Or, as long as it’s confined to the borders of a country doing so, it is fine? > How government is structured is up to Chinese people to decide Funny take given the events of 1989
aaroninsf 24d ago
It would be quite a demonstration of supremacy for any Chinese firm to to equal or exceed the damage done (and ongoing) to western society by meta.
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creaturemachine 24d ago
Considering Meta lives and dies by the White House, where abuse and manipulation have become SOP, I'm not sure the CCP stacks up as the boogeyman anymore.
- ford 23d ago
  IMO opinions of this variety often come from being misinformed or under-exposed to exactly how oppressive the CCP is. The US government isn't perfect, but it values various freedoms much more extensively than the CCP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghurs#Human_rights_abuses_against_Uyghurs_in_Xinjiang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghurs#Human_rights_abuses_ag...

by ford 24d ago

well_ackshually 24d ago

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throwaw12 24d ago

> those companies live and die by the CCP I don't care about internal politics of a state, as long as they are not killing people deliberately on a daily basis or invading other countries and killing their people. How government is structured is up to Chinese people to decide > Would you feel differently if scale was reversed and Meta was the upstart trying to compete with Xiaomi/etc? It's not only about scale and upstart, it's also about how much are they harming society.

reliabilityguy 24d ago
> I don't care about internal politics of a state, as long as they are not killing people deliberately What about forced cultural assimilation and re-education camps? Or, as long as it’s confined to the borders of a country doing so, it is fine? > How government is structured is up to Chinese people to decide Funny take given the events of 1989

aaroninsf 24d ago

It would be quite a demonstration of supremacy for any Chinese firm to to equal or exceed the damage done (and ongoing) to western society by meta.

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creaturemachine 24d ago

Considering Meta lives and dies by the White House, where abuse and manipulation have become SOP, I'm not sure the CCP stacks up as the boogeyman anymore.

ford 23d ago
IMO opinions of this variety often come from being misinformed or under-exposed to exactly how oppressive the CCP is. The US government isn't perfect, but it values various freedoms much more extensively than the CCP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghurs#Human_rights_abuses_against_Uyghurs_in_Xinjiang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghurs#Human_rights_abuses_ag...