This is good for leveling the playing field. If Facebook, X, Instagram, WhatsApp, YouTube, etc. are banned/blocked in the PRC, the US should reciprocally return the favor.
The playing field is already level. If an American company makes a social media app and wants to offer it in the US and in China, and a Chinese company makes a social media app and wants to offer it in the US and China, and those two social media apps are essentially identical they will either both be allowed in China or both be banned/blocked in China. Same in the US: they will both be allowed or both be prohibited.
China requires all social media apps there to implement government directed censorship and to help ID people who post things on forbidden topics. That's not a nice playing field to play on, but it is a level one because it does apply regardless of app origin.
... creating a massive pressure for sideloading and alternative/non-official app-stores. Don't for a minute think that those millions of people who currently enjoy that platform will suddently want to stop. Necessity is the mother of invention.
(No, personally I don't use TikTok, YouTube or any other cat video sites. I'm not in that demographic)
"People of Earth, your attention, please. This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council. As you will no doubt be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system. And regrettably, your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition. The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you."
>> I’m willing to bet the Japanese version sounds much more urgent and serious lol
You be the judge [0], in a US spec LHD Z31 no less.
There is a whole market for these kind of things, and Nissan Japan has been well aware of this. Check out the aftermarkets try at this anime sounding DASAI unit in an S15 [1].
Nissan JP took it even further when it announced its e-Power system and marketed a sort of anime waifu option as a co-pilot. I can't remember which it was, but it was really strange to see what was once a niche thing only geeks did in order to out-JDM/USDM each other on the internet or car meets to that.
Found it [0], in later videos from CES they mentioned it being linked to the metaverse; which honestly explains why this never took off as a feature.
Still, it's pretty interesting to see how quick Nissan were to spend resources on this when they realized there was a market for non-living based co-pilots. Dasai made one called Mochi [1] which you mount on your steering wheel which is a pretty innovative, low-tech alternative aimed at the tuner market.
It's kind of funny in a sad way, and know I'm going to sound old; but I'd rather spend money on defi gauges or tires to shred than these pointless gadgets as 50% of the time I ran mountain/track were in groups.
>“One of the goals of malware is to be hard to remove, and this suggests the malware compromised the firmware itself to make it really hard to remove and really stealthy,” Weaver said. “That’s not a ransomware actor, that’s a state actor."
I wonder what lessons the United States government has learned from this event.
If a war breaks out between the U.S. and China, what policies (if any) would the government potentially implement differently to its residents of Chinese descent?
We would probably just do what we did with Italian and German Americans during WWII, or Saudi Americans after 9/11.
At the Federal level this means widespread and intensive surveillance to find actual threats. At the social level this would be uncoordinated actions arising from general suspicion and distrust. This would result in small scale outbreaks of violence, boycotts, subtle insistence that on taking an ultra-pro-America stance on most issues.
The War years were not going to be good for the Japanese Americans regardless of Federal policy, but mass internment was the so clearly the wrong policy and there is no reason that we should even consider repeating it. Assuming that everyone is a threat therefore we must suspend haebeus corpus and have them arrested indefinitely for nothing is generally not a great idea.
'Suspension of habeus corpus' (ie unlawful detainment) seems to underline USA's global reach somewhat. Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo) still exists, does it not. I know Biden has sought to empty it.
For the last several decades (my lifetime) it's always seemed that no matter where in the World you might be, if the country is not an enemy of USA, there's a chance you [I mean, a person, not me specifically] could be whisked away to perpetual imprisonment in USA, for something perhaps as trivial as copyright infringement and the local government would just kinda shrug.
Perhaps it's closer to failure to follow due process, rather than habeus corpus.
Maybe that's not a balanced view of USA's projection of soft power. It mirrors the fear some in USA have of rogue cops.
Does it feel to you like the World, or just USA, had improved here? Tribalism seems as strong as ever.
The closest analog is probably the post-9/11 environment, and while, thankfully, no one suggested firing up concentration camps, the rise of racial profiling by both civilians and government was still deeply troubling.
Certain states already explicitly bar Chinese people from owning property or renting property because they’re considered as foreign adversary. Louisiana just passed such a bill, with carve outs for legal immigrants and citizens, and carve outs for residential property. But it explicitly lists China as a nation of origin that is barred from landownership. Other states already have similar laws ready to go.
The trigger for Japanese camps was in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor when a couple Japanese Americans help hide and protect a downed Japanese pilot on one of the Hawaiian islands.
The report was widely published and cause mass hysteria against what was perceived at treacherous Japanese Americans.
Unfortunately, the media really pushed that narrative.
> I wonder what lessons the United States government has learned from this event.
Nothing. There are no regrets there but now that things are stable (kinda), it's a good idea to have remorse to calm down people.
> If a war breaks out between the U.S. and China, what policies (if any) would the government potentially implement differently to its residents of Chinese descent?
That will depend on the perception of the US government for these people, for the popular opinion and for the revenge mentality level of the current ruling class. Remember, this happened very recently. They were all labeled "Oligarchs" whatever that means. They were not oligarchs yesterday or when they bought the properties? But now they are "enemies" so everything is justified as such. And the people applauded!
It's more about levelling the playing field. While FB, IG, YouTube, New York Times, etc. are blocked in the PRC, TikTok are allowed to operate freely in the U.S.
