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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

www.pcgamer.com 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

The conglomerate was one of several Chinese companies given the designation at the start of the year.

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

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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

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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)
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  I came into this thread just to downvote their lies.
  
  Yeah didn't even get to number 7 on the list before hitting a Marxist resource. Uh oh...
- 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".
  
  Low effort post
- I can't be the only who thought the list would be longer am I?
- 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.
  
  And then Huawei allegedly stole Cisco's IP? Ah, the irony
- National weather service???
  
  (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...
  
  I'm sorry but you know too much. Come with me.
- I know this is not a complete list, but what about instances Lemmy? Would be very interesting to have conversations with Chinese behind the great Firewall!
- The list is not entirely correct.
  From china
  
  Change it on wikipedia!
  
  Ironically.....
- Fuck, I'm saving this f9r future arguments. Love it!
- We should have done the same
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  Good luck dealing with the current far-right inthe government in the US and soon in the EU countries though
  
  Censoring the far-right doesn't make it go away. It just pushes it underground where it becomes even more radical outside of the moderating influence of the mainstream.
  The solution is not censorship, but to understand what is causing the rise in right wing radicalism and address the root cause.
  That root cause is the total loss of faith institutions coupled with economic insecurity felt by the working class. When people are scared and angry, they will turn to those who give them simple solutions and an easy scapegoat. It's a tale as old as time.
  You can try and censor all you want, it won't ultimately make a difference.
  
  True, the far right has lost of lot of ground since musk took over twitter. Hanging Nazis was really a mistake post war. Giving them parlement seats is the best way to take power from them.
  (Yes, this is how stupid you sound)
  
  True, the far right has lost of lot of ground since musk took over twitter
  we aren't talking about some social media platform. we're talking about a nation state censoring speech. these are two radically different things.
  having said that, even on social media platforms with modern machine learning algorithms you can't effectively censor. Look at how the far-right uses memes and secret symbols to communicate even through algorithms. for example the pepe the frog memes, the 88, the hand symbols, etc.
  you can't say "rape" on youtube or tiktok so people just use "grape" instead. the Chinese do similar things on their internet. censorship is always going to be a losing battle.
  Hanging Nazis was really a mistake post war
  executing people who committed war crimes and genocide versus a country censoring speech. again.. two radically different things.
  Giving them parlement [sic] seats is the best way to take power from them.
  explain the connection between "giving" seats to Nazis (last I checked we had elections) in the current discussion about a country censoring speech.
  (Yes, this is how stupid you sound)
  you are free to spend your time on the internet saying anything you like. if making these weak appeal to ridicule comments makes you feel stronger, I support you
  
  Censoring the far-right doesn't make it go away. It just pushes it underground where it becomes even more radical outside of the moderating influence of the mainstream.
  I beg to differ. The situation was MUCH better in this regard in Western Europe 15-20 years ago when being openly far-right would get you socially ostracized for the most part, and media didn't routinely bring far-right mouthpieces on national TV.
  That root cause is the total loss of faith institutions coupled with economic insecurity felt by the working class
  I do agree with that though, that's why I'm a commie who wants economic security for everyone (i.e. guaranteed employment and housing) and strong and trustworthy institutions (such as powerful, free and public healthcare and education and pensions, and the end of austerity)
  
  I beg to differ. The situation was MUCH better in this regard in Western Europe 15-20 years ago when being openly far-right would get you socially ostracized for the most part, and media didn’t routinely bring far-right mouthpieces on national TV.
  the question we need to ask is why was being right-wing socially unacceptable back then?
  why is it OK for a politician like Trump to say "immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country" today whereas just 20 years ago that would immediately end a political career?
  it's not because we had more censorship.
  the why is what we need to address. without economic security and legitimate institutions, we are lost.
  censorship is not the solution and in fact it's actively harmful. any mechanisms we create for a government to start censoring will inevitably be taken over by fascists when they come to power. and I think we only got a few years left at best

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