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
You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more
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?
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.
An app is a service
“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.
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.
Presume to do so in the US, of course*
The US government can do whatever they want, even occupie and destroy countries they consider national security threat. I guess one needs a XXI century Galileo to show you US is not the centre of the planet. Your own nation's history is full of atrocities, always remember this.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.