the new york times tech team truly never disappoints. prohibiting the censorious, authoritarian, literally genocidal chinese dictatorship from spying on U.S. citizens is... wait for it... “censorious” and “authoritarian”pic.twitter.com/LYUHgg2lWF
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Mike, I actually think I disagree with the interpretation. It’s not talking about the prohibition itself, it’s talking about the *means* of prohibition being censorious and authoritarian. I would have to agree with that, in that the government can’t just block a service.
the government can absolutely ban a foreign service or product it considers a national security threat. we only just began to lift a decades-long embargo on the nation of cuba, and they weren’t an aggressive, genocidal superpower hell bent on annexing our allies.
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Whether a govt can or not isn’t the question. They have the largest military in the world; of course they *can*. Does it raise questions of authoritarian censorship? To me, it definitely does. Who gets to decide which apps get banned and how is it enforced?
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An embargo on a physical country, product, or service is one thing. Stepping into the web to somehow force all of the service providers to block/delete this app, seems authoritarian. I can’t criticize the NYT for that view.
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An app is a service
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“it considers” is the vulnerability the govt will exploit. Empirically, I see a lot to indicate they can't be trusted to decide which software is legal. One example: since the ‘90s, every few years they try to ban strong encryption. Steps like this are how they’ll get there.
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We have all been so cleverly manipulated by rhetoric, possibly instigated by the CCP, so as to struggle mightily with what should be a simpler trade calculus. If US companies can’t operate in China, Chinese companies cannot presume to do so. That is all.
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Presume to do so in the US, of course*
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