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YouTube Suspends Account of Popular Chinese Dissident (freebeacon.com)
schwit1 brings news about an exiled Chinese billionaire with 500,000 followers on YouTube. The Washington Free Beacon reports:YouTube has suspended the video account of popular Chinese dissident Guo Wengui amid a mounting pressure from the Beijing government to silence one of its critics. According to a person familiar with the action, YouTube issued what the company calls a 'strike' against Guo, who since the beginning of the year has created an online sensation by posting lengthy videos in which he reveals details of corruption by senior Chinese officials. The suspension involves a 90-day block on any new live-stream postings of videos and was the result of a complaint made against a recent Guo video for alleged harassment. The identity of the person or institution who issued the complaint could not be learned... Other videos by Guo posted prior to the suspension remain accessible.
The suspension coincides with this week's once-every-five-years congress of the Chinese Communist party to reveal which top officials will serve President Xi Jinping, according to Financial Times, adding that "China's choreographed politics is not designed for public participation or questioning."
The suspension coincides with this week's once-every-five-years congress of the Chinese Communist party to reveal which top officials will serve President Xi Jinping, according to Financial Times, adding that "China's choreographed politics is not designed for public participation or questioning."
...I, for one, welcome our Chinese internet overlords.
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Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
Enough said!
he's a billionaire (or close to it), with questionable sources of his money, currently living in a Manhattan penthouse. I'd characterise him as someone with an ongoing dispute with the current government of China, who used to NOT have any dispute with them (hence his having a lot of money with hard to explain origins). I would not categorise him together with the people under house arrest, or dying because they were not allowed to consult doctors, or otherwise "disappeared".
You knew it was only a matter of time.
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Seems like China is really going out of it's way to clamp down on dissidents, even going as far as to silence people on platforms that aren't even accessible in the country. Sounds to me like it's mostly a wasted effort that only emboldens the person being persecuted and his mostly foreign and expat followers. Then again if you how the remember the Tiananmen Square protests* ended or what they've been doing to Falun Gong followers** this this probably isn't even close to China going all out in stamping something out.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it."
He should fucking LOVE his country or get in line with all of the NFL assholes here in the US and get his ass kicked! Nationalism over free speech!
Is there hope for us? Or will we just have to accept this marxist communist (de facto) government's dictate? P.S. It's we the people .. you're evil too ;)
To think capitalism is compatible with democracy in the long run is simply foolish. Any company doing "good" eventually figures, that Chinese market is very big and very important, spying on Assange is necessary, donating millions to Republicans is unfortunate but good idea, etc. Also, power of capitalism is also so big, it can easily crush any rebellion, see Occupy case as an example. Both democracy and poor chinese guy are doomed anyway, as Google figured out.
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Except for the Chinese government, then its about power.
Capitalism? Freedom of speech? Freedom after speech?
All the best protections a nation like the USA can offer, protect and support...
What does a US big brand do?
Work extra hard to embrace and side with Communism and China.
Is this what the internet and "social media" will look like? Communist parties tracking any content globally?
US brands comply with removing free speech?
What will be banned next?
Tiananmen square? 4 June 1989?
Tank Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
No more terms like Flower of Freedom? Goddess of Democracy? Operation Yellowbird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., River elegy?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Money = Power.
A lot can be said about the character of the person Guo Wengui if you look into it. Although to call him a bad guy, you have to read too much into it. None of us are all good. At the end of the day, he is a hero among the Chinese for valid reasons. Google\YouTube's pick-and-choose who gets banned, demonetized, or just plain buried because our algorithms aren't good enough so we have our Sjw's on the case mentality is only supported by them being a private company, and a total and complete monopoly. Google, as an extremists ultra far left company is taking advantage of their position in so many disgusting ways.YouTube's great potential has been squandered by Google, a company that somehow manages to maintain an average employee age of 29 and values enforced "diversity" above results and hard word, not to mention above lucid,objective thinking. For fucks sake, at Google, they have a weekly microaggression newsletter that they then have meetings about.
Google is already a bunch of commies. So it's no wonder.
Ironically a YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Their biggest problem right now, is how to eliminate all ideology opposed to their ultra far left SJW culture, without losing 3/4 of their subscribers.
More: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I can't even find any videos exposing YouTube through Earnest Pettie, and the full length is about as damning as can be.
"Do No Evil" has become highly subjective at Google\YouTube\Alphabet. I predict that within a decade, Alphabet will prove to be the next big company too big to fail. When it happens, it will happen fast.
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Google feels Guo is an extreme right-wing white nationalist who is spewing racist anti-chinese hate speech. Guo had better be on the lookout for Antifa (aka the Red Guard).
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
"our president.........is not equated to an emperor with the mandate of heaven"
Where were you between 2008 and 2016?
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
Unless it threatens the bottom line.
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talk to me when our government calls China out on their worker abuse. Or hell, anyone outside if the left wing press does. Both Mitt Romney and Steve Jobs were once caught talking about how happy they were to be able to work the Chines 16 hours a day for peanuts and I've never once heard them called out on that by anyone who mattered.
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You have the EU telling Facebook to do more to prevent terrorism-related propaganda.
You have paid entities flooding the web with news outlets that are biased, bespoke or even blind zealots working with ficticious or manipulated facts.
You have social web and big data companies getting dividends to publicize politicaly loaded interests or from selling unfair, unregulated demographic info, from every and any political wing.
You have state and corporate interests undermining individuality, basically nullifying democracy.
You have capitalism ethics that free and prioritize organizations (vs individuals) for societal development, and communist ethics that have to restrict individuals at scale in order to provide equality and prevent monopolies other than the state itself.
You have a speculation industry oligarch undermining democracy with ignorance, hate and nepotism, an intelligence service top-tier undermining democracy with extremism and despotism, and a single party president in a non-democracy going the cult of personality route, all of them making use of censorship, oppression and counter-information for consolidation of power.
Now, you telling me Google, who just happenned to recently decide would re-enter the chinese market again, doing chinese state a favor is newsworthy? Who da fck cares, it's business as usual.
I'm not even mad because in the long run, having Google in China might prove a lot more beneficial to any social improvement there than having a youtuber sham the state leader to foreigners who don't give two shits about what's going on in southeast Asia (at least not away from a keyboard).
So what would Jesus do here? Nobody has a clue, but everyone would have an opinion. And for any believers out there, have you ever stopped to consider the reason there wasn't a 2nd coming is because we would be too fucking judgemental on anything any so-called savior would do? I personally think he's looking down and thinking "they don't need another me, they already settled for mediocrity and the immediate satisfaction of ubiquitous attention-grabing. I am no match for the internet".
Given that that Jordan B. Peterson was locked out completely without notification and it included his Gmail account I suspect it was a triggered insider abusing its access rights. If it was a management decision they'd just have given him an official strike like they did here.
I think this should be looked at as a problem that modern Internet use was designed to create for non-technical users: instead of making videos available in many places (so when some are in some way disabled, even temporarily, other copies remain), people are encouraged to think that it's right and proper to host everything in one spot. This makes censorship easy and effective for the admins of that one service.
Metaphorically speaking, don't put all your eggs in one basket. License your work to share, and host copies on multiple servers including your own, and host copies via decentralized file sharing systems such as BitTorrent. One effective way to do this is uploading to archive.org—each archive.org upload is also available via BitTorrent. As long as the material is mirrored by other users individuals can keep copies available even if archive.org disables or deletes their copy.
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Sometimes you get community strikes on 5 year old videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
OK, China. Now you sit on Kim Jong Un.
Have gnu, will travel.
It is high time that google search, Facebook, YouTube and the other mega corporations that have a de-facto monopoly get regulated by the US government as the monopoly utilities that they are. Then YouTube can say sorry China, the US government won't allow us to block that content. Within China you can block what you manage to block, outside you can sit and spin because YouTube is based in a country that values freedom and transparency. (Alt left facist America haters of the US and around the world, please just move along, your hatred of the US is out of proportion with reality and real suppression and evil around the world. The US isn't perfect, but it is still by far the best and most free country on the planet).
Beyond that, we don't need utilities cutting off peoples access to huge chunks of the internet simply because they disagree with them. That is what courts are for. We are at the cusp of this kind of regulation, and before you argue that Google search, Facebook, or Youtube are not de-facto monopoly utilities and they don't provide an essential service, keep in mind that electricity didn't historically fall into that category either, but it has become an essential utility. The companies listed above have the vast majority of their market share, and should be regulated as such.
If you disagree, please post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like
Ha! I remember all the kingly jokes about obama back then, good fun. I did notice that while it was "royal this" and "king that", I didn't see much of the "emperor penguin" type jokes, but I'm sure there were plenty as few actually know the difference between leader-types. I guess everyone was waiting for a new prez for the "emperor has no clothes" jokes to really get going.
Simple times.
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His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
Didn't take long from Do No Evil to Anything for a Buck. I blame the MBA mentality that is in charge now.
There is no such thing as an "MBA mentality". A person who would do anything for a buck was like that before an MBA program, a person who would do good by you will still be like that after an MBA program.
An MBA program is nothing more than a series of survey courses, one to three classes in various topics. Statistics, organizational behavior, economics, accounting, operations, consumer behavior, marketing, strategy, product development, project management, business law, negotiations, information technology, etc. This does not turn an engineer into an accountant, no more than it turns an accountant into an IT person. What it does is let an engineer see things from the perspective of an accountant, a marketing person, a strategy person, etc. So that the engineer can better represent the engineering perspective to these other groups, so that the engineer can better understand the perspective of these other groups. In short, MBAs allow better communication between different fields of expertise. There is no special "mentality" installed.
First it was Facebook, then it was Twitter and finally YouTube.
Guess the guy's not going to have much of an on-line life...
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People pretend like corporations like Google, Apple, Facebook are more (i.e. moral entities) than what they are -simply a business arrangement between a group of people to maximize the profit on their investment. The problem here is not that Google and Facebook cave in to China, the problem is people assuming that Google and Facebook have any sort of moral underpinning.