> And that significant difference is that TikTok is a Chinese company, not an American one
Can't repeat this enough. The Americans in here might see that foreigness and national dick-measuring contest as enough justification for a ban. All while either willingly ignoring or relishing in the fact that they do the same thing in other countries. "But we're your allies!" my arse, I trust your government as much as I trust China's, which is to say I don't, at all.
I can't accurately express with words the anger I derive from the hypocrisy of the SV-types in here arguing for a ban on privacy grounds. And to be clear, I'm not trying to defend TikTok here, they do deserve to be banned from every country on Earth. I just wish American companies would get the same treatment, and die as they all deserve.
This tirade has just the right amount of indignation and outrage.
For someone not from the US I believe China collecting my data is even better because the US might share it with my government. I don't believe in safety trough government surveillance. Imagine the UK that hands out penalties for admittedly offensive posts on social media. Doesn't happen if you post it on a Chinese site. Not yet at least. Best form of legal certainty for average peasants.
In the same regard the surveillance by US tech companies is still not as impactful to me than it is for the average American.
At most, Wikipedia could be said to have a neo-liberal bias, an ideology upheld by both of the US' political parties, based on policies alone and not on each individual voter's personal and nuanced adherence. The parties are wrongly assumed to be polar opposites on the political spectrum by most US citizens, but they're not.
That holodomor example isn’t a good one. That article is up for, and mostly pertains to, the debate surrounding whether or not it was technically a genocide.
The phrase "he doesn't like" is doing a lot of work in this whole thread isn't it? Makes it sound like Travis is scraping other people's data for not having the same favourite colour that he does. However, the people presented as examples in the README are nazis, scammers, homophobes and transphobes. It's an interesting way of minimising calls for genocide.
… according to him (and you can’t ignore those examples are hand picked to support his agenda). Personally I’m tired of social vigilantism. Let the law punish these people if they’re really what he calls them. If they’re not harming you don’t go looking for trouble.
> Let the law punish these people
One of the people he picked as an example is the law. He's a white supremacist cop from Illinois: https://accollective.noblogs.org/post/2022/04/01/magic-dirt-.... So what you're asking for can't and won't happen. "Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses."
Undoubtably, at high volume, he’s bound to get a few right. Still, I don't agree with the extrajudicial process, full stop. I’d rather have a few shit-stain racist internet trolls um trolling than decent people constantly under fire for dissenting viewpoints.
I'm betting the kind of genocide he likes escapes condemnation though.
Or is he also naming and shaming people who call for mass immigration to Europe, those demanding citizenship for illegal aliens in the US, advocates for 'asylum seekers' in Australian detention, etc?
I think you could say this for CLIs in general. While we can all agree that the
CLI is great for tasks that require repetition; it's just a PITA for any
one-time task. When you just need to do something once and as soon as possible,
the manual-help-type-run loop gets tiresome quickly.
Passing options to a program so it can do what most users would want it to do in
the first place is nonsensical, and yet that describes the behaviour of many if
not all of *nix's tools. It should be the other way around: do what is expected
by default, and provide options for different, more uncommon use-cases. Though I
suppose this is also a form of baggage from the past that it's very difficult to
get rid off because of backwards compatibility.
Can't repeat this enough. The Americans in here might see that foreigness and national dick-measuring contest as enough justification for a ban. All while either willingly ignoring or relishing in the fact that they do the same thing in other countries. "But we're your allies!" my arse, I trust your government as much as I trust China's, which is to say I don't, at all.
I can't accurately express with words the anger I derive from the hypocrisy of the SV-types in here arguing for a ban on privacy grounds. And to be clear, I'm not trying to defend TikTok here, they do deserve to be banned from every country on Earth. I just wish American companies would get the same treatment, and die as they all deserve.