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MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

therobit posted:

Wait, why?

Why what?

Tiktok is actually really bad.

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The junk collector
Aug 10, 2005
Hey do you want that motherboard?
Not so bad as Wechat which will apparently ban you if your password is offensive to the CCP.

Grand Fromage
Jan 30, 2006

L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?


One person posted that story and nobody else could replicate it.

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020

d0s posted:

may be paranoid but it feels like tiktok pulling out of HK is just a move to get people there on the mainland version of it (forgot the name) run by the same company and the american office is just touting it as some kind of protest move

Nah, tictok doesn't want to face the problem of getting security law request from HK government and having to comply, which will hurt its reputation in the other international markets. Tictok has an IPO to launch, which ironically probably will be in the HK stock market.

AFAIK very few HKers use tictok.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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considering bytedance is headquartered in Shanghai and can get a "security request" from the Chinese government any time, 24/7, and be required by law to comply their presence or lack thereof in Hong Kong is immaterial

Shumagorath
Jun 6, 2001
Meanwhile Apple will continue to say gently caress all while pretending to be about user privacy in countries with actual rule of law.

A4R8
Feb 28, 2020

Fojar38 posted:

Not only could the US government ban Tiktok but it would be relatively easy too.

- Designate it a security threat
- Order its removal from app stores

This wouldn't even require much political clout since it's already banned from being used by any military personnel, federal employees, or being on any federal devices.

Yeah, lets escalate tensions with China. What could go wrong?

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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A4R8 posted:

Yeah, lets escalate tensions with China.

:yeah:

Xtronoc
Aug 29, 2004
Pillbug

A4R8 posted:

Yeah, lets escalate tensions with China. What could go wrong?

gently caress yeah let's do it!

Barudak
May 7, 2007

A beautiful world with beautiful places to visit

Barudak fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Jun 28, 2021

Stunt_enby
Feb 6, 2010

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
someone get the tankies back in here, this thread is loving terrible and deserves every ounce of them

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Stuntman posted:

someone get the tankies back in here, this thread is loving terrible and deserves every ounce of them

C-SPAM is over there, all the tankies you could possibly want

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020

Barudak posted:

Post removed for compliance with national security law

Has Jeffery of Yosyos said he will comply with Carrie Lam and give out user detail?

Kill All Cops
Apr 11, 2007


Pacheco de Chocobo



Hell Gem

The junk collector posted:

Not so bad as Wechat which will apparently ban you if your password is offensive to the CCP.

I had my wechat pic set to one of the HK cops giving the finger and it kept getting resetted back to a blank avatar every other day lol

i dont think the password ban actually happens but i havent tried it myself

Kharnifex
Sep 11, 2001

The Banter is better in AusGBS

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!
Is this 2020 or 1920?

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


WarpedNaba posted:

Is this 2020 or 1920?

It's The Onion.

Kharnifex
Sep 11, 2001

The Banter is better in AusGBS

Forget it bbq, it's chinathread

Devils Affricate
Jan 22, 2010
If the last few years have taught us anything, it's that The Onion was never a comedy site but rather just a normal news site channeled from the future.

Vesi
Jan 12, 2005

pikachu looking at?

A4R8 posted:

Yeah, lets escalate tensions with China. What could go wrong?

yes let's go, should've done ages ago

GoutPatrol
Oct 17, 2009

*Stupid Babby*

A4R8 posted:

Yeah, lets escalate tensions with China. What could go wrong?

gently caress around and find out

A4R8
Feb 28, 2020

Next you’re going to be calling COVID the china virus.

The junk collector
Aug 10, 2005
Hey do you want that motherboard?
Everyone knows that it's now called, The Virus that formerly originated in China

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


The junk collector posted:

Everyone knows that it's now called, The Virus that formerly originated in China

The Virus that Originated in Norwegian Salmon and Was Unfairly Transplanted to Wuhan to Make China Look Bad

MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000

Nothing unusual here, https://t.co/0ZYdTDHRbQ?amp=1

https://twitter.com/BeWaterHKG/status/1280756889958051842
https://twitter.com/BeWaterHKG/status/1280756897818112000

MrMoo fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Jul 8, 2020

McGavin
Sep 18, 2012

The Virus that was Brought to Wuhan in E-Cigarettes by the US Army during the Military World Games and was Created at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick in Maryland.

vanity slug
Jul 20, 2010

haier's weaponized irritable bowel syndrome

ninjoatse.cx
Apr 9, 2005

Fun Shoe

stephenthinkpad posted:

Has Jeffery of Yosyos said he will comply with Carrie Lam and give out user detail?

New plan to monetize the forums lookin' pretty sweet.

Mr Luxury Yacht
Apr 16, 2012


What's Chow Yun-fat been up to lately anyway? I'd heard he got banned from working in China due to supporting the HK protests.

ninjoatse.cx
Apr 9, 2005

Fun Shoe

See? Caberham was worried about nothing. He would have been arrested for NOT showing up :D

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020

Mr Luxury Yacht posted:

What's Chow Yun-fat been up to lately anyway? I'd heard he got banned from working in China due to supporting the HK protests.

I heard his hobby is take photos with large format film camera. Old school.

Not So Fast
Dec 27, 2007



Encouraging that it got laughed at, disheartening it was even tried.

Kill All Cops
Apr 11, 2007


Pacheco de Chocobo



Hell Gem

Mr Luxury Yacht posted:

What's Chow Yun-fat been up to lately anyway? I'd heard he got banned from working in China due to supporting the HK protests.

he's got a bunch of retirement money, and he's a pretty cool guy who hasnt sold out like donnie yen and is regularly seen around in HK unlike other 'local' celebs like jackie chan

Dont Touch ME
Apr 1, 2018

A4R8 posted:

Yeah, lets escalate tensions with China. What could go wrong?

As an American who would be drafted and killed in a major conflict:
I hope Donald Trump makes Winnie the Pooh jokes on Twitter and recognizes the ROC as the legitimate China when he gets re-elected. The gargantuan loss of face dwarfs the negative consequences, including the possibility of nuclear war.

Dont Touch ME fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Jul 9, 2020

A4R8
Feb 28, 2020

McGavin posted:

The Virus that was Brought to Wuhan in E-Cigarettes by the US Army during the Military World Games and was Created at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick in Maryland.

Wat

McGavin
Sep 18, 2012



The Scientist posted:

When did patient zero begin in US? How many people are infected? What are the names of the hospitals? It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make public your data! US owe us an explanation!

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
They detected Corona in waste water from Dec in Italy and Brazil. You got to incorporate them in your theory.

Fur20
Nov 14, 2007

すご▞い!
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね!

well they certainly aren't wrong that it appeared in china some time around october or november lol

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Tsinghua Professor Xu Zhangrun was recently detained by the Chinese government for his outspoken criticism of Xi Jinping

The reason why is his latest essay that was published in February, "When Fury Overcomes Fear."

There is a translation available at this link and I suggest everyone read it, if simply to appreciate the burns that he lays down practically every other sentence

https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/viewpoint/viral-alarm-when-fury-overcomes-fear

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Traveler
Sep 13, 2006
https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/china-uyghur-migration/

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