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U.S. Tech and Film "Collaborating" with China - U.S. Attorney General Barr

posted by martyb on Saturday July 18 2020, @09:31PM   Printer-friendly

Phoenix666 writes:

BBC:

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday July 19 2020, @09:17PM

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Sunday July 19 2020, @09:17PM (#1023826)

    No, it really wasn't:

    State permission was required for almost any business activity, such as ending employment or expanding a factory. All wages were set by the government.

    from the wikipedia piece on Italian Fascism. [wikipedia.org]
    There is also this bit:

    The Doctrine of Fascism (1932) described the nature of Italian Fascism's totalitarianism, stating the following:

    Fascism is for the only liberty which can be a serious thing, the liberty of the state and of the individual in the state. Therefore for the fascist, everything is in the state, and no human or spiritual thing exists, or has any sort of value, outside the state. In this sense fascism is totalitarian, and the fascist state which is the synthesis and unity of every value, interprets, develops and strengthens the entire life of the people.

    — Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile, The Doctrine of Fascism (1932)

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