P.S. I hate "whataboutism". You were making a perfectly good point about the government of Saudi Arabia above and I don't want to lose sight of that.
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Replying to @zooko @sonyaellenmann
My take is that surveillance tech is coming no matter what and the solution will look more like zcash than political campaigning
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You seem to ignore the point. The surveillance is just scale. China has arguably committed far worse atrocities than the Saudi’s yet you give them a pass... why?
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Replying to @BlockchainHold @wheatpond and
It’s hard to imagine how you can think they haven’t don’t anything as “insane” as murdering a critical journalist... it’s either ignorance or double standards. Any third option I’m missing?
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Yes, the option where China hasn’t done anything as absolutely wild as chopping up a journalist in their own embassy since roughly the cultural revolution?
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How about disappearing the president of Interpol? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/07/world/asia/china-interpol-men-hongwei.html … You know what? You're right. Dismemberment and violating the norms of embassies _is_ different. Otoh it doesn't make much difference to the bereaved wives. Or the political effects of making critics vanish.
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Replying to @zooko @wheatpond and
From a moral perspective I don’t think quiet disappearances that can involve murder are substantially different from overt public ones. Maybe Eric’s trying to avoid getting his social credit score dinged (joke, they don’t have them for foreigners afaik... yet).
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y’all want me to be stooging for China here but it’s a reach. China does awful stuff all the time! BUT if you can’t see the political difference between chopping someone into pieces with zero deniability in your own embassy and what China’s done I truly don’t know what to say5 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @wheatpond @joeykrug and
Please note that I said political not moral—I’m not making a moral argument here.
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Replying to @wheatpond @joeykrug and
How about kidnapping people from foreign territory on the regular for rendition to China and God knows what when they've arrived
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