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China has shut down Apple's online book and movie services as it imposes strict rules governing what can be published on the net.
Regulations were unveiled in March that outlawed foreign ownership of online publishing services. The rules also required that all content shown to Chinese people must be stored on servers based on the Chinese mainland.
Apple said it hoped access to the services would be restored soon.
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(Score: 2) by BK on Sunday April 24 2016, @04:08PM
One reason why businesses from the US another place is moved into China was that it was a huge, and largely untapped, market. It seems to me that China is systematically closing down that market. At the very least, they are reducing access.
Does Trump have it right? Should we be systematically scrubbing Chinese stuff from our markets as well?
...but you HAVE heard of me.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by TheGratefulNet on Sunday April 24 2016, @04:16PM
firstly, trump is always wrong. he's a moron and doing whatever he can to get even more power. he cares nothing for you and I, lets get THAT straight, right off. none of them (except bernie) care about us and bernie won't get in because, well, the illuminati won't allow it (I'm half serious. or maybe 0.42 serious)
second, there are no strong leaders here would would show BALLS enough to talk shit to china. we are their 'profit partners' and while we say we are a mostly christian nation, the only real religion we have is MORE MORE MORE MONEY! greed wins, nothing else comes close to the american mentality.
and so, we are stuck in a bind with china. we should not have given them the keys to the kingdom but its not thinking people that made this decision, its the sociopaths who we label as 'leaders' who decided it would be 'good for america' to sell out, give up all our local manufacturing, give up all our local parts building and sourcing and give it all away to child-labor based china.
btw, while we are being frightened by the islamists who are 'coming to force us all to live under their law', the REAL threat is china and how its killing us, slowly, day by day. like the islamic nations, china could care less about us and our welfare and safety. once we have bought the last poisoned barrel of baby formula, they'll just shift to sell to and destroy their next target.
tl;dr: china is not a good world citizen and they have a 'burn down the world' view, where they truly could care less what happens to anyone non-chinese. not exactly a good 'business partner' in any way shape or form.
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(Score: 2) by aiwarrior on Sunday April 24 2016, @08:17PM
Is it me or Soylent is starting to have hive mind. I see more and more troll moderation for disagree. I think negative votes should cost 2 mod points instead of 1. Jesus, not slashdot again.
This opinion was explained and although I disagree it's not definitely a troll.
My 2 cents
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 24 2016, @08:54PM
I didn't mod it one way or the other but I can see a good case for it being modded troll:
(1) There are zero facts, it is just a rant.
(2) It engages in lowbrow, derogatory stereotyping.
I think either of those in sufficient quantity can qualify as trolling, but combined it is a slamdunk.
(Score: 2) by BK on Monday April 25 2016, @12:42AM
Have a hive mind for a while now… I trace it at least as far back as the Mozilla CEO discussion.
...but you HAVE heard of me.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Monday April 25 2016, @04:10AM
If you think about it, all the originals who jumped ship from beta must have had something in common. But i know for a fact there is no hive mind there. Aristarchus, TMB, MDC, and other easily recognized personalities clash frequently. Here, hold my beer and watch this:
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 26 2016, @04:27AM
China will make us poor. We might end up slightly 3rd-world, like South America and Central America are today. China will not move in, bulldoze Las Vegas, blow up Mount Rushmore, and tax all the non-Muslims.
Poverty is less awful than having your culture purposely deleted.