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[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 hours ago

Sues. Lawyers do discovery. Tencent refuses. Court fines Tencent in contempt, rules in favor of the government. Tencent tries to bribe Trump with something.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

I agree with the US DoD. The large Chinese corporations are owned by CCP members and former PLA officers. Contain them until the PRC implodes.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Not to mention I'm pretty sure all of their Chinese office buildings are literally in Military owned and operated land.

It would be like Google HQ being in the middle of a US military base.

EDIT: Although I do admit adjacent the Googleplex building there is a Department of Defense building like 10 minutes drive, near the airfield, but it's probably there because NASA operates on the airfield.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

Lol sue the us?

Money vs money, go for it

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Every fucking Chinese company is required to be an arm of their government and provide them with any information they request. It's not even a question, they are an arm of the Chinese government. They can get fucked

[–] [email protected] 55 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Same goes for US companies.

Have we learned nothing from Snowden?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (7 children)

Yeah it is similar, but not the same (at least not yet).

China is a one-party state, and the government has control over private enterprise. If you are a Chinese company, the PRC ultimately has control of it, and that means the Chinese military has access to anything you have access to, if they want it.

This is on a different level than anything Snowden released.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

This is on a different level than anything Snowden released.

Snowden released the fact that the major internet companies in the US literally have full time CIA staff and locked rooms with servers

Why is this on a different level? Is it because they're ASIANS?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

That Snowden releasing the facts and it being brought up in courts, state congress, and federal congress as well as national news all revolved around it being illegal in the USA.

In the PRC it's only illegal to talk about it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

That Snowden releasing the facts and it being brought up in courts, state congress, and federal congress as well as national news all revolved around it being illegal in the USA.

Did it stop?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The specific program Snowden revealed supposedly ended in 2015, it collected information such as who was calling who and for how long. The 9th Circuit actually ruled it clearly illegal in 2020 and Snowden made a Tweet about it in a relatively good mood.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

This is the best news I've heard all day! Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

One government is actively committing genocide against subsets of their population I’d say it’s a pretty big fucking difference.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

The long and short of it is even leftie Americans have internalised American exceptionalism, even if they aren't cognisant of it. And the right are, well... Racist and don't want to admit it.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Both countries are acting in their own interests. Simple as that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Imagine if that meant in the people's best interest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

It’d be nice, wouldn’t it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, if only in either of those two countries people were seeing measurable improvements in their lives, approved of their government, and had hope for the future...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

China probably have more hope for the future than US right now.

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