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[–] [email protected] 5 points 59 minutes ago

Oh my, the US military might have to change the name of the list to, "Foreign companies we're blacklisting for classified reasons". How terrible.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 hours ago

Discovery process, you say?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Cool, can we make the divest from American game studios now?

[–] [email protected] 105 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

Here's a list of websites China bans:

  • Google
  • YouTube
  • Facebook
  • Yahoo
  • Wikipedia
  • Marxists Internet Archive
  • Reddit
  • Fandom
  • Netflix
  • Zoom
  • Blogspot
  • Bing
  • Instagram
  • WhatsApp
  • Twitch
  • Roblox
  • Steam Store
  • Steam Community
  • Spotify
  • Messenger
  • X
  • LinkedIn
  • Skype
  • Tumblr
  • Pinterest
  • SoundCloud
  • Signal Private Messenger
  • Dropbox
  • Pornhub
  • XVideos
  • Medium
  • Dailymotion
  • BBC
  • The New York Times
  • Vimeo
  • The Guardian
  • SlideShare
  • Discord
  • DeviantArt
  • The Washington Post
  • Nico Video
  • Archive.org (Internet Archive)
  • Bloomberg
  • Flickr
  • Wretch
  • HuffPost
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • DuckDuckGo
  • Scratch
  • Reuters
  • NBC News -TIME
  • Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
  • Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
  • Bandcamp
  • Technorati
  • Archive of Our Own
  • Viber
  • South China Morning Post
  • Plurk
  • The Economist
  • ABC
  • Voice of America
  • Radio Free Asia
  • NBC
  • PBworks
  • The Epoch Times
  • The Epoch Times (Chinese edition)
  • HBO
  • WION
  • Hong Kong Free Press
  • Apple Daily
  • TikTok
  • ChatGPT
  • Rockstar Games
  • GitHub
  • Hugging Face
  • Flipkart
  • Zomato
  • Clubhouse
  • Swiggy
  • Truth Social
  • National Weather Service
  • Kanzhongguo (English)
  • Kanzhongguo (Chinese)
  • Microsoft Copilot
  • Telegram
  • Voice of America (Chinese)
  • Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher (by a famous anti-CCP Twitter poster)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

National weather service???

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

(tin foil hat)

The government... They control the weather information... Satellites... Weather machines... Snorts cocaine we can't trust them we need to trust our eyes...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Uh ... why SCMP? Isn't that a party-friendly newspaper anyway?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

SCMP is critical of China, but they do soften the blow

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The list is not entirely correct.

From china

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

Ironically.....

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 hours ago

Fair point, but that means the ban should be coming from Department of Commerce, not the DoD.

Don't try to come up with bullshit excuses about espionage.

"We're banning these private-business Chinese websites because China bans our private-business websites and that's anti-competitive".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

We should have done the same

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 hours ago

Hard disagree, censorship is not welcome in a free society. I dislike a number of those sites and haven't heard of most of the rest, but I wouldn't ban a single one.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Yeah let's follow China's lead and become just like them! I support restricting political freedoms and a giant firewall and a social credit system too.

They are obviously the superior system and therefore we need to emulate them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Come at me bro

[–] [email protected] 119 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Of course it’s not a military company, it’s an espionage company.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Normally, espionage can collaborate with other branches of government, apart from the military.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 hours ago

Lmao, poor little babies

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Keep it a note that having them listed as a Chinese military company could let US put pressure against open source groups to not collaborate with them; very similar to how US forced Linux Foundation to kick off decade old russian collaborators.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

That's a bad mischaracterization. You cannot force someone to do something voluntarily . Torvald spoke in support of it. I'm sure many governments and groups using the Linux kernel and open source want Developers that are vetted. Or can be reasonably sure won't be forced to act maliciously under duress.