Nah I'll take the cheaper Chinese alternative, this is exploitation.
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It's weird that you describe the headline as "overwrought" and call the person an "employee" when the headline is more accurate than you.
This was an executive, not just an employee. That's a huge distinction and I can't help but think you intentionally downgraded his position to cover-up his behavior. "Just an employee" "Not a big deal"
But when you read the allegations, they seem like a very big deal that an executive was spying on users, giving their information to the Chinese government explicitly for oppressive purposes, including folks who are not in China, and went out of his way to personally censor non-Chinese groups meeting to discuss the Massacre-Which-Cannot-Be-Mentioned.
I would say the headline understates the gravity (it's very much a 'by-the-books' headline that you KNOW went through ten levels of Legal), and that your hand waving here feels much more dishonest than the headline.
It was an executive purposefully brought in for legal compliance with that country's requirements. That he was fired is a huge signal in how seriously aggressive zoom is about protecting data that they would even be willing to go up against national governments. I feel like the firing is a huge part of the story.
Just a reminder that it's probably not a wise idea for anyone to get further in bed with Zoom than they already are.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/18/zoom-he...
What an overwrought headline, the employee in question has already been fired.
Former NSA chief joins Amazon's Board of Directors.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/9/21429635/amazon-keith-alex...
_6fmb commented on China again boosts R&D spending by more than 10% sciencemag.org/news/2020/... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Genuinely curious: to what extent is that because the numerator didn't grow enough, and to what extent is it because the denominator grew too quickly?
If you read the article, it says the numerator grew faster than the denominator, and analysts think progress is good and not meeting the target this year is not a problem.
_6fmb commented on China again boosts R&D spending by more than 10% sciencemag.org/news/2020/... · Posted by u/pseudolus
The companies may have been unblocked if they'd handed over information potentially leading to death of the protestors AND allowed the Chinese state to continue hacking their systems.
If we're not being disingenuous, that's like telling your coworker: "If you come into work today, I'll kill this bystander and rob your house," and then saying: "Hmm, I guess they decided by themselves to not to come into work today."
(And apparently, Facebook has tried multiple times since to re-enter China in one form or another, and China has either refused or quickly re-banned them: https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/25/17612162/facebook-technol...)
Luckily we don't live in a cyberpunk world where corporations are above the state. TikTok is obedient to the state and is still getting banned, the US has no excuses.
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> Remember Dragonfly? Google just tried to get back into China THIS YEAR and was blocked by the US government.
Could you substantiate this claim? Regarding China and Dragonfly, I only remember there being employee and governmental criticism, but no outright ban from doing business in China: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/11/27/google-...
Oh please like we need a formal ban to shut things down, it's like America not banning tiktok right?
There were hearings and calls by US politicians to stop Dragonfly, after which it was stopped.
As much as I agree and being from a "third world" country myself, I can still remember China banning Facebook and Google in 2009/2010. Everyone has had to bend over backwards to gain access to the Chinese market while giving them free reign to the rest of the world.
No they didn't, both Facebook and Google decided to quit themselves. Remember Dragonfly? Google just tried to get back into China THIS YEAR and was blocked by the US government. It's the US that's closing access to China not the other way around.