• @[email protected]
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    154 hours ago

    Oh my, the US military might have to change the name of the list to, “Foreign companies we’re blacklisting for classified reasons”. How terrible.

  • @[email protected]
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    1258 hours ago

    Here’s a list of websites China bans:

    • Google
    • YouTube
    • Facebook
    • Yahoo
    • Wikipedia
    • Marxists Internet Archive
    • Reddit
    • Fandom
    • Netflix
    • Zoom
    • Blogspot
    • Bing
    • Instagram
    • WhatsApp
    • Twitch
    • Roblox
    • Steam Store
    • Steam Community
    • Spotify
    • Messenger
    • X
    • LinkedIn
    • Skype
    • Tumblr
    • Pinterest
    • SoundCloud
    • Signal Private Messenger
    • Dropbox
    • Pornhub
    • XVideos
    • Medium
    • Dailymotion
    • BBC
    • The New York Times
    • Vimeo
    • The Guardian
    • SlideShare
    • Discord
    • DeviantArt
    • The Washington Post
    • Nico Video
    • Archive.org (Internet Archive)
    • Bloomberg
    • Flickr
    • Wretch
    • HuffPost
    • The Wall Street Journal
    • DuckDuckGo
    • Scratch
    • Reuters
    • NBC News -TIME
    • Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
    • Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
    • Bandcamp
    • Technorati
    • Archive of Our Own
    • Viber
    • South China Morning Post
    • Plurk
    • The Economist
    • ABC
    • Voice of America
    • Radio Free Asia
    • NBC
    • PBworks
    • The Epoch Times
    • The Epoch Times (Chinese edition)
    • HBO
    • WION
    • Hong Kong Free Press
    • Apple Daily
    • TikTok
    • ChatGPT
    • Rockstar Games
    • GitHub
    • Hugging Face
    • Flipkart
    • Zomato
    • Clubhouse
    • Swiggy
    • Truth Social
    • National Weather Service
    • Kanzhongguo (English)
    • Kanzhongguo (Chinese)
    • Microsoft Copilot
    • Telegram
    • Voice of America (Chinese)
    • Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher (by a famous anti-CCP Twitter poster)
    • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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      72 hours ago

      Basically any site that they don’t have full control over/can’t buy favor from and has the ability to spread info they dislike, even if it’s something as simple as 2+2=4".

      And if you’re looking for someone outside of China to blame for their internet shield, Cisco was responsible for helping them set it up.

      • @[email protected]
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        94 hours ago

        (tin foil hat)

        The government… They control the weather information… Satellites… Weather machines… Snorts cocaine we can’t trust them we need to trust our eyes…

    • Pxtl
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      27 hours ago

      Fair point, but that means the ban should be coming from Department of Commerce, not the DoD.

      Don’t try to come up with bullshit excuses about espionage.

      “We’re banning these private-business Chinese websites because China bans our private-business websites and that’s anti-competitive”.

    • Xyi
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      17 hours ago

      The list is not entirely correct.

      From china

      • @[email protected]
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        167 hours ago

        Hard disagree, censorship is not welcome in a free society. I dislike a number of those sites and haven’t heard of most of the rest, but I wouldn’t ban a single one.

      • @[email protected]
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        Yeah let’s follow China’s lead and become just like them! I support restricting political freedoms and a giant firewall and a social credit system too.

        They are obviously the superior system and therefore we need to emulate them.

  • Pennomi
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    1289 hours ago

    Of course it’s not a military company, it’s an espionage company.

      • @[email protected]
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        27 hours ago

        Normally, espionage can collaborate with other branches of government, apart from the military.

      • CubitOom
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        268 hours ago

        You know, you can be critical of a government without using racist slurs against the people from that country. Not everyone from China is part of the CCP.

      • @[email protected]
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        128 hours ago

        giving you the benefit of the doubt like maybe english isn’t your first language, that word is considered a pejorative/slur in all modern usage

          • @[email protected]
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            58 hours ago

            the wikipedia article on it cites two instances where it didn’t seem to be wayy back at the word’s inception. but yeah hardly matters in the grand scheme

          • @[email protected]
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            Naw, it was most commonly used as a term similar to “that chinese guy” which is easy to confuse with racism at a time period where people were generally racist towards the chinese, but the term itself is not racist. There were actual slurs back then they could use if they were about that.

            My Grandmother said they always bought they’re vegetables growing up from the chinaman who rolled his cart through the alleyway behind their homes. It’s not a term of hate, but it’s easy to say hateful things alongside it.

      • @[email protected]M
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        38 hours ago

        Your submission in “Tencent says it’s not a Chinese military company and is willing to sue the US Department of Defense if it isn’t removed from a blacklist” was removed for Rule 3.

        • @[email protected]M
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          Your submission in “Tencent says it’s not a Chinese military company and is willing to sue the US Department of Defense if it isn’t removed from a blacklist” was removed for Rule 3.

  • CaptainBasculin
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    -48 hours ago

    Keep it a note that having them listed as a Chinese military company could let US put pressure against open source groups to not collaborate with them; very similar to how US forced Linux Foundation to kick off decade old russian collaborators.

    • @[email protected]
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      That’s a bad mischaracterization. You cannot force someone to do something voluntarily . Torvald spoke in support of it. I’m sure many governments and groups using the Linux kernel and open source want Developers that are vetted. Or can be reasonably sure won’t be forced to act maliciously under duress.