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US Attorney General William Barr has accused Hollywood and US tech firms of "collaborating" with the Chinese government to do business there.
Companies like Disney routinely agreed to censor films while Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple were "all too willing" to work with Beijing, he said.
Such actions risked undermining the liberal world order, Mr Barr added.
His intervention is the latest criticism of China by White House and other US officials.
Tensions between the US and China have been rising over a host of issues. The US this week removed Hong Kong's preferential trade status, after China brought in a controversial new security law for the territory.
Does working with China mean freedoms are undermined elsewhere?
Also at the Hollywood Reporter. DoJ: Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers Remarks on China Policy at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @09:41PM (29 children)
Where's Song of the South? Where's Gone with the Wind? Why is it bad when Chinamen censor but good when SJWs censor?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @09:55PM
RTFA.. it's all about preserving the *liberal* world order.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday July 18 2020, @10:03PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_the_South [wikipedia.org]
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @10:36PM
https://www.primewire.ag/movie/82440-watch-song-of-the-south [primewire.ag]
https://www.primewire.ag/movie/64889-watch-gone-with-the-wind [primewire.ag]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Subsentient on Saturday July 18 2020, @11:34PM (17 children)
These things aren't legally banned. They're just frowned upon. There's a big difference.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @12:05AM (1 child)
Blacks aren't legally banned, they're just frowned upon. There's a big difference.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @12:16AM
Whites aren't legally banned, except in California.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Sunday July 19 2020, @01:09AM (10 children)
Ah, you want "legally" [cheatsheet.com]? You might find one or two examples...
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday July 19 2020, @11:00AM (9 children)
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Sunday July 19 2020, @06:52PM (8 children)
So sorry, I keep forgetting that this is a numbers game to you people.
So, there are no films/books banned in the US now? Check your "patriot act" to be sure, ok?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Monday July 20 2020, @12:41AM (5 children)
There's some stuff with local and occasionally federal bans, e.g. child/zoophile porn, really fucked up stuff like that, but generally it's understood that you can't be targeted for what you read or look up.
China is an extremely authoritarian surveillance state. You can be arrested for looking up pro-democracy literature. Comparing them is like comparing Donald Trump to Kim Jong Un. Both are bad, but one is far, far worse than the other.
Why do you people defend China? You have to know better. You've gotta realize they're far worse. Is it for political reasons? I don't understand.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday July 20 2020, @12:55AM (4 children)
but generally it's understood that you can't be targeted for what you read or look up.
Gonna tell me it doesn't happen?
I known about the tyranny of China all my life, and clearly I'm not defending them. So what if they're worse? That's just your "with us or against us" shtick. Screw that. We can't do anything about China, we can do something about Trump. We can't remove their president, we need to replace ours, I would prefer a more suitable option than the one being presented, but what the hell, a blender would be better, it's a hostage situation. How he ever got one vote to begin with is a sad reflection on the collective. That he won, and might win again(!) is an even worse reflection on the opposition
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Monday July 20 2020, @05:47AM (3 children)
Well I definitely think we need to get Trump out of the white house immediately. The man is devolving the US into a police state.
But, once the dust settles, I think we have an absolute ethical obligation to make things as unpleasant for China and be as punitive as possible about human rights violations as we are able.
Our country isn't the only one that matters.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday July 20 2020, @07:26PM (2 children)
Sorry, it's all just standard boilerplate war mongering propaganda. Regular form 27E/8 with subform 35Z in triplicate, just fill in the adversary, and the document will be immediately emailed to the news wire services to be repeated verbatim world wide in the local language.
I still wonder what made the people that lied us into the last few wars all suddenly credible an' stuff... Pretty sure we all know the answer to that.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Tuesday July 21 2020, @06:26AM (1 child)
An outright war would likely lead to a nuclear holocaust. I don't think anybody remotely sane wants that.
But, I do want China to be isolated and punished. We tried opening up to them, letting them trade with the free world. They shat in our open mouths in return. So, we should revoke their world community privileges.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday July 21 2020, @06:52AM
This is all the same crap we heard just 18 years ago and 12 years before that and 25 years before that, and so on and so on... please.. just stop... You got plenty of buyers, I'm not one of them
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday July 20 2020, @01:25AM (1 child)
Your innumeracy is not my fault.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday July 20 2020, @01:30AM
Yeah, like it matters...
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @05:21AM (2 children)
Frowned upon by blue haired retard that shaved xher eyebrows?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @06:28PM (1 child)
You know those politicians who get really upset and vocal about gay marriage or whatever, and then you find out they were hiding in the closet while sneaking around under bridges to pick up gay prostitutes? Yeah, sounds like you really want to date a cool chick who dyes her hair and would show you a good time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2020, @05:03AM
Yeah sure he wants his life destroyed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @09:54AM
Is there? For example, picketing is not legally banned in Russia, but it takes about 5 seconds before your ass is hauled to police station if you do it.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by shortscreen on Sunday July 19 2020, @01:36AM (6 children)
Imagine if, instead of making a stink about what China was doing in Hong Kong, it was about what Israel was doing in Gaza or the west bank.
(BTW, I just noticed that the BDSMovement has a bit of acronym collision going on...)
(Score: 1) by hemocyanin on Sunday July 19 2020, @03:23AM (5 children)
Israel isn't sucking up every last manufacturing job our traitorous multinational corporation class can figure out how to export.
I tried to buy a travel mug today that was not made in China today. The closest I could get was a Thailand made Zojirushi. The job exporting traitors exist in all first world countries but it is ridiculously short sighted. An overpriced Yeti "designed in SomeState, Made in China" cup, is just a harbinger of its future bankruptcy because the OOHappyJoyful brand will cost 1/3 and having learned how to make nice cups and packaging, nobody will care for Yeti.
The media is falling all over itself to protect China for some short term profit just like our manufacturers have been doing. These companies are basically exporting the wealth America built up over the centuries, to pocket a large percentage of it themselves and they owe no allegiance to anyone or anyplace. Mass homelessness, poverty, and strife are our future when the middle class is gone, and with Chinese propaganda convincing the gullible masses that squandering our achievements is social justice or some such crap, we'll go down the drain singing songs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @03:52AM (4 children)
Made in the USA travel mugs: https://www.tervis.com/products [tervis.com]
(Score: 1) by hemocyanin on Sunday July 19 2020, @08:57PM (3 children)
The stainless insulated cups are made in China and decorated in America.
(Score: 1) by hemocyanin on Sunday July 19 2020, @09:00PM (2 children)
Citation: https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Tervis-Tumbler-RVW16305957.htm [glassdoor.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:05PM (1 child)
That is most unfortunate. The original insulated plastic cups still say made in USA.
(Score: 1) by hemocyanin on Monday July 20 2020, @06:39AM
That's what I'll get -- not so happy about plastic but it is what it is. There's a real problem when we've designed the way our economy works so that we can't make a cup -- this is stamped metal not rocket science.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @01:38PM
Except they aren't censored. At all. You're adorable! Are you available for parties? We could all use a good laugh (at your expense).
https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/gone-with-the-wind-hbo-max-disclaimer-horrors-slavery-1234648726/ [variety.com]
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL61B9BCBA7491218B [youtube.com]
Oh, and you're welcome.