What a fucking grotesque company.
It’s a Chinese state company, and China has a vested interest in controlling,or at least influencing Afghanistan, so Russia can’t.
Thank Christ they aren’t sold here in the states. Can you imagine a Chinese owned tech in your pocket or in a form of an app used by millions? Oh god even worse, a US owned app or device in your pocket or a device listening to you in your home… /s
The least surprising thing about this news is that they announced they are in Afghanistan with decent enough service with all those mountain ranges. Why is this news?
Sorry not be a cynical duck about this news, but we have zero day chip incidents from China, known spyware being masked as social media, doesn’t matter where it comes from most if not all spy on you. And most companies admit it
Sure, but I’d rather Google spy on me to market my data for targeted ads than a country that runs literal concentration camps and is just across the Taiwan strait, basically a stone’s throw from where I live.
You have been banned from c/Beijing
Wait, I know you’re referencing /r/Pyongyang, but did those guys move over to Lemmy? I mean, a North Korean-owned instance for /c/Pyongyang (and other communities for North Korean topics, etc) is possible, perhaps even better for DPRK’s propaganda.
But then again, it might not make much sense for DPRK’s propaganda since… well, numbers.
The Republicans should just realize they’re basically the same thing as Muslim fundamentalists and move there. They can do all they’re favorite things. Ride around in trucks, shoot guns, oppress women and minorities.
Taliban doesn’t have the money or manpower to effectively launch a surveillance state. As the article notes, they’re trying, and failing, to stop Islamic State terrorist attacks in Kabul.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/19/asia/isis-k-attacks-afghanistan-taliban-cmd-intl/index.html
Yeah… that’ll end well.
Only somewhat related, but I’m pretty sure that photo is from the law courts in Vancouver, Canada, and the spelling makes me suspect it’s AI generated.
99.9% despising + 0.1% surprising
100 x worse than Amazon’s surveillance of employees, yet same trend.deleted by creator
Those don’t work without democracy.
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Boy I can’t wait for Americans to say how bad China is for wanting to control Afghanistan.
The actual criticism is China is bad for working to empower a regressive authoritarian government that will inevitably use this technology to oppress women but go off.
Don’t forget the part where women had rights when the US was there… I’m sure China will be all for helping bring back those rights.
Women living in Kabul did. Women outside of the city… Not so much.
As much as I hated the war, and that the USA created the fucking taliban, we at least tried…we shouldn’t have ever gone there.
famously, everyone who lives in a country agrees with the actions of that country’s government
thats why they invest in mass surveillance and such
Lucky the Americans didnt’t get any shit for that at all…
