Comment on 600 GB of Alleged Great Firewall of China Data Published in Largest Leak Yet
Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day agoAccording to the files, their reach spreads outside China’s borders, supplying censorship and surveillance technology to governments in Myanmar, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, and others linked to the Belt and Road Initiative.
chloroken@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
When the US calls Chinese technology “censorship and surveillance” you know it’s some good shit they haven’t yet figured out how to conquer in the name of capitalism.
Here’s a fact: to exist on the world stage with the US, proactive measures must be enacted. To fight back against US digital hegemony is a far cry from censorship. It’s a responsible stance.
Eldritch@piefed.world 1 day ago
The fact that anyone could think the flavor of authoritarian dick to suck is what matters. Rather than, you know,; admonishing both as they deserve. Never ceases to baffle.
chloroken@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
There’s a cure for this confusion. Read Marxist theory.
Eldritch@piefed.world 21 hours ago
There's no use in reading theory when you refuse to think critically about it. Plus no where in Marx's theory does it call for or justify brutal dictatorial authoritarian regimes. The dictatorship of the proletariat was a philosophical and rhetorical construct.. Not a litteral one. Which makes the tanky squealing of "read the theory" even more hillarious. You're worse than the liberals you hate.
hector@lemmy.today 10 hours ago
The Chinese are not marxists. They are whores of wall street, rather pimps, pimping out their population to Wall Street to Garner Western technology and investment. While their workers toil 6 days a week 12 hours a day for substance wages and companies dump their toxins into the ground and Air.
Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
chloroken@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Wow, yeah, the Israel connection sure does suck. China is bad because of how close they are to Israel. Of course.
Wait.
CovfefeKills@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I know you are trying to be clever but you are just coming across as immature and stupid. This is a common ass saying so you have no excuse for forgetting it “two wrongs don’t make a right.”
Aria@lemmygrad.ml 1 day ago
That’s such a tenuous connection. Why are you highlighting this? Those are off the shelf cameras, everyone uses them, because they are cheap. China isn’t unique in not sanctioning Israel. They absolutely should. But you may just as well focus on the use of Microsoft Windows or who their Ethernet cable supplier is.
Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
That’s nit simply about technology.
China’s Ties With Israel Are Hindering the Palestinian Struggle for Freedom
pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You do realize that the original post is on lemmy.zip and not lemmygrad, right?
chloroken@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
I have never posted to lemmygrad, but those dudes rule. This isn’t the L you think it is.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 56 minutes ago
No, it really is. Tankies live in a fantasy land, thinking the wildfire is greener on the other side of the fence.
Something can be said about unregulated, late-stage capitalism and American imperialism. The former is a malignant cancer that consumes all in its wake and demands infinite growth for itself and the ones who direct it. The latter, in service of the former, is a threat to the rest of the developed and undeveloped world.
Those are entirely reasonable criticisms, calling an apple an apple. Unchecked capitalism empowering sociopathic, self-serving oligarchs will kill us all.
Genuinely thinking of China as anything other than a competitor to America is just trading one leather boot for a different flavor of leather boot. They are both capitalist states, and they are both acting in their own self-interests of cultural and economic dominance. The only effective difference is that one calls itself a republic while the other calls itself communist.