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How are u posted:It's like how American Red states couldn't help themselves after the upcoming Supreme Court abortion leaked. Falling all over themselves to pass horrendous laws criminalizing miscarriages, death penalty for doctors, gather personal info on pregnancies and publishing it, the works. The moment they felt they had the ability, they loving went all out. So it goes with authoritarian nightmare people and regimes. Yes we know amerikkka bad blah blah blah
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Marcade posted:Chinese army defeated by a longshoremen strike. chinese army accidentally sent to australia after manifest mix-up
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Oh no, who ever could have predicted this https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-tapes-us-user-data-china-bytedance-access Buzzfeed posted:For years, TikTok has responded to data privacy concerns by promising that information gathered about users in the United States is stored in the United States, rather than China, where ByteDance, the video platform's parent company, is located. But according to leaked audio from more than 80 internal TikTok meetings, China-based employees of ByteDance have repeatedly accessed nonpublic data about US TikTok users — exactly the type of behavior that inspired former president Donald Trump to threaten to ban the app in the United States.
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sticksy posted:Oh no, who ever could have predicted this No way! They swore though!
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Let's actually ban it this time
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Gaius Marius posted:Let's actually ban it this time lol that ship has long sailed
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sticksy posted:Oh no, who ever could have predicted this all he wanted was to slide into dms of post 2000s beauties
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He's already seen everything. He's seen it all.
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Grand Fromage posted:He's already seen everything. He's seen it all. The Chinese see everything. All your things, seen. You know, the environmentalists never talk about that.
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Even the PRC leaving me on seen, smh
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Gaius Marius posted:Even the PRC leaving me on seen, smh They wanna put you in camps, not their fault your first thought was gooncamps.
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America would willingly use genital verification to get access to tik tok
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as a HKer it is sad that I have to say this, we gently caress'in told you so. delete it ban it do whatever you need to, just remove it
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Alan Smithee posted:America would willingly use genital verification to get access to tik tok My phone's zoom isn't enough.
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It's not 520 by date but, happy page 520 to the goons' souls that desire freedom
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Page 250 was more my speed.
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Oh well did you know the NSA spies on people too, who is even to say what is right and wrong!!!!
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Big tech spies on people all the time so really it’s NBD.
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As I am not Big Tech, I cannot comment.
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Xi Dada got my dick pics on Weixin, and Xi got my genetic info: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/22/us/politics/china-genetic-data-collection.html quote:Citing a Reuters report, Mr. You said a Chinese company, BGI, had developed a neonatal genetic test with the Chinese military that had enabled it to collect information from millions of people around the world. The firm gained a foothold in the United States in 2013, when it purchased an American genomics firm. https://www.npr.org/2021/02/24/969532277/china-wants-your-data-and-may-already-have-it quote:The U.S. and China both spy aggressively on each other. In recent years, one striking feature of this rivalry is China's pursuit of personal data on Americans.
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PITY BONER posted:Xi Dada got my dick pics on Weixin, and Xi got my genetic info: lmao Makes me wonder what they're going to do with all that data. "According to Equifax Data on grocery and restaurant purchases, Forums Poster Zarin is an unusually large specimen. An absolute unit. Just a sizeable lad." "Oh. What does that mean?" *both researchers turn and shrug at each other*
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Atopian posted:Page 250 was more my speed. same
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Zarin posted:lmao It was speculated in the NPR article, but the options are endless. quote:"It gives them tremendous access into who we are," said retired Army Gen. Keith Alexander, who led the National Security Agency under President Barack Obama.
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We also get to look down the line at future tech. We don't know what will be possible in 20 years, but a huge number of the same people will be in the workforce.
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Zakrello posted:as a HKer it is sad that I have to say this, we gently caress'in told you so. Technologic Technologic
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PITY BONER posted:It was speculated in the NPR article, but the options are endless. lmao We could just solve that problem by making that not an issue, but . . . lol lmao Nah, we'll just make it the fault of anyone who clicks the link, gently caress 'em.
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I'd been a little skeptical of claims of an exodus of people from Hong Kong, but I think my tune just changed. Not many people I personally know have left, rent sure as hell hasn't fallen, and though I hear about departures, it's never 'felt' like more than the usual turnover of expats, etc. But I just flew to Singapore, and it was a shocking experience. The flight was full, and it seemed like almost everyone was a family relocating permanently -- people crying, sharing stories, maximum luggage, domestic workers migrating with them. And it was not just a bunch of white expats. I asked some local Singaporean colleagues about it, and they said rent has skyrocketed because of all the arrivals and that the government is now considering tighter rules on employment passes.
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Alan Smithee posted:Technologic :3
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Smeef posted:I'd been a little skeptical of claims of an exodus of people from Hong Kong, but I think my tune just changed. Not many people I personally know have left, rent sure as hell hasn't fallen, and though I hear about departures, it's never 'felt' like more than the usual turnover of expats, etc. But I just flew to Singapore, and it was a shocking experience. The flight was full, and it seemed like almost everyone was a family relocating permanently -- people crying, sharing stories, maximum luggage, domestic workers migrating with them. And it was not just a bunch of white expats. I asked some local Singaporean colleagues about it, and they said rent has skyrocketed because of all the arrivals and that the government is now considering tighter rules on employment passes. Mainland is certainly getting a lot emptier of foreigners. I'll be curious to see numbers next month.
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Atopian posted:Mainland is certainly getting a lot emptier of foreigners. Do they publish those stats or something?
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Atopian posted:Mainland is certainly getting a lot emptier of foreigners. I don’t think it’s just foreigners leaving HK, though. I’m not sure how easy it is to emigrate with a HK passport or BNO, but in hindsight all the articles downplaying that emigration seems suspicious to me. Plus I’m regularly surprised by Chinese acquaintances who somehow have 1+ non-PRC passports through bizarre means.
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Zarin posted:Do they publish those stats or something? Generally not, but several expat-oriented organisations and news sources publish their own. Obviously limited and unreliable, but potentially good for comparing relative numbers over time.
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I love this thread and all its posters
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Strategic Tea posted:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thehouse/otoole-china-interference-claims-1.6493606 quote:The Chinese embassy in Ottawa did not respond to a request for comment. Asked in December about its activities in relation to Huawei, ambassador Cong Peiwu denied China engaged in espionage.
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The Tory candidate in my riding in Vancouver got smoked by both the Liberal and NDP candidate, and not because of voter interference.
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Smeef posted:I don’t think it’s just foreigners leaving HK, though. I’m not sure how easy it is to emigrate with a HK passport or BNO, but in hindsight all the articles downplaying that emigration seems suspicious to me. Plus I’m regularly surprised by Chinese acquaintances who somehow have 1+ non-PRC passports through bizarre means. Since the new BNO started in 2021, the UK government has given out 110,000 visa to HK residents to move to the UK, so it's a noticeable chunk of people. And that's with the process to get it being fairly bureaucratic and expensive.
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Atopian posted:Generally not, but several expat-oriented organisations and news sources publish their own. Yeah, one of the Expat - focused Wechat Feeds posted a poll that stated that 40 - 60% of foreigners in Shanghai were planning to leave this coming year. Obviously, not very rigorous or reliable, but a start.
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Smeef posted:I don’t think it’s just foreigners leaving HK, though. I’m not sure how easy it is to emigrate with a HK passport or BNO, but in hindsight all the articles downplaying that emigration seems suspicious to me. Plus I’m regularly surprised by Chinese acquaintances who somehow have 1+ non-PRC passports through bizarre means. On the BNO, not that easy but comparatively not that hard either. You do need to pony up a NHS surcharge to cover use of the NHS while you're in the UK (£3,120 for a single adult staying for five years) and you do need to show ability to support yourself for six months, while the process of actually filling out the forms is teeth-grindingly bureaucratic. However, having helped fill in a US immigration application as well the BNO visa application process is lightyears more streamlined and simplified and the response rate is far, far faster - if applying on the BNO visa the main thing slowing you down is the logistics of pulling up roots and settling down in the UK, not the visa application itself. The big caveat is the NHS surcharge and the need to demonstrate ability to support - if you can afford that it's a relatively streamlined immigration process, but that's kind of a load-bearing if. (Granted comparing all this to US immigration procedures isn't exactly setting the bar high but still)
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I'm a few pages late to the violence against women discussion, but it wasn't uncommon for me to see parents hitting their children or men slapping women/women slapping men at the restaurants I used to go to in Tianjin. Like someone noted, though, a lot of this was domestic and there were preexisting relationships present. The worst thing I ever saw, which I don't know if I ever posted about, was one night after I finished hosting karaoke night at the local expat bar. I was walking home, I live just down the street, and right when I got outside, like half a block down, there was a group of like 8-10 people (mainly olds) watching two guys screaming at two girls. Both girls were sitting down, and one of the guys was consistently wailing on one of the girls. I mean he was punching her face, uppercuts, kicking her in the face, screaming at her. It was like 12:15am, and it was bizarre to see this on such an otherwise quiet street. As I passed, I didn't know if I should do anything, and the guy that was wailing on the girl noticed me and started shouting at me. Calling me a foreign motherfucker, white devil, etc etc. I yelled back to him "What's your problem" and he started sprinting at me. His friend ran toward me as well, though in retrospect he was just trying to restrain his friend, and the first guy ran right up to me and took a swing at me, which I ducked. He then kicked me in the ribs. His friend grabbed him after that and yelled at me "GET OUT OF HERE". I told him they were loving crazy and his friend tried to break away and kick me again. That's when I turned around and started walking away rather quickly. About 20 seconds later, I turned around and the friend was chasing the guy, who had broken free and was running at me again, so I ran down the street. Ran into a police officer about a block down and told him what happened and he said "Why'd you get involved" and I said "I didn't, I'm just walking home" and his response was "Eh, none of my business" while smoking a cigarette. The most bizarre thing about the entire scenario was all the old people just kind of watching this young woman get the poo poo beaten out of her on the side of the road. It didn't feel real. The Great Autismo! fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Jun 20, 2022 |
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The Great Autismo! posted:I'm a few pages late to the violence against women discussion, but it wasn't uncommon for me to see parents hitting their children or men slapping women/women slapping men at the restaurants I used to go to in Tianjin. Like someone noted, though, a lot of this was domestic and there were preexisting relationships present. The worst thing I ever saw, which I don't know if I ever posted about, was one night after I finished hosting karaoke night at the local expat bar. I was walking home, I live just down the street, and right when I got outside, like half a block down, there was a group of like 8-10 people (mainly olds) watching two guys screaming at two girls. Both girls were sitting down, and one of the guys was consistently wailing on one of the girls. I mean he was punching her face, uppercuts, kicking her in the face, screaming at her. It was like 12:15am, and it was bizarre to see this on such an otherwise quiet street. As I passed, I didn't know if I should do anything, and the guy that was wailing on the girl noticed me and started shouting at me. Calling me a foreign motherfucker, white devil, etc etc. I yelled back to him "What's your problem" and he started sprinting at me. His friend ran toward me as well, though in retrospect he was just trying to restrain his friend, and the first guy ran right up to me and took a swing at me, which I ducked. He then kicked me in the ribs. His friend grabbed him after that and yelled at me "GET OUT OF HERE". I told him they were loving crazy and his friend tried to break away and kick me again. That's when I turned around and started walking away rather quickly. About 20 seconds later, I turned around and the friend was chasing the guy, who had broken free and was running at me again, so I ran down the street.  to all of it
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