Keep blaming victims, it will cause change ANY DAY NOW

This is the stupidest reply I've seen on Slashdot for a long time. It's literally impossible for it to be true, because the bit you quoted clarifies the intent beyond all doubt.

The really worrying thing is that they somehow convinced you that TikTok is a bigger threat than your own government picking up tips from the CCP on how to make sure you think the right things.

What use case do you have for street name signs to be computer readable? Delivery companies use - as far as I can tell - geographic coordinates to direct delivery drivers (leading to things like Amazon drivers having to turn off data on their phones in order to deliver to premises where the delivery location has been wrongly encoded, and the driver has to deliver to a location distant form the nominal delivery location - farms were great for this, "leave parcels in the barn with the red door". Few delivery days working for Amazon didn't have several of these "disable data" events.)

Those little Amazon delivery robots use geographical coordinates too, but aren't bound to the road network, using cycle paths and paved footpaths where available.

The databases for this are essentially complete (though needing maintenance - Amazon request their deliverers to flag errors as described above, but few ever bother).

I'm not defending China, you Muppet. I'm pointing out that the US government is not being honest, which is something that Americans should care about.

Members of the US government don't like the content on TikTok, and are trying to stop you accessing it. My government is doing the same and it's wrong.

Have you actually used Douyin? It's pretty similar to other Chinese apps. Censorship levels are the same. No Tiananmen, porn is technically illegal in China but the rules are somewhat fuzzy and not enforced. Plenty of violent content on there, some of it pretty disturbing.

In other words there is stuff that is legal in China, but not in the US, and vice versa.

Let's be honest and have a real conversation about this. I agree that censorship by the government is a concern, but that applies to both China and the US government's attempt to ban TikTok.

The company management is pointing the finger at workers, and they're right to, just as long as they point the finger at themselves too.

These kinds of problems start at the top. If management demands workers do the impossible (or at least the wildly implausible), they know that reports of success are going to be fraudulent. The question is, are they goign to get away with it?

The problem with the TV shows is that they were just setting up movies. No real pay off or satisfying ending. Some of them had other issues like bad writing, but even the ones that were mildly entertaining ended up feeling like a waste of time.

If that is true then why do they keep getting regulated by the Chinese government? Surely their owner would simply order their employees to do what they want. And surely a government agency like the NRTA would never dare tell the CCP what to do.

If supporters of the ban can't be honest, we must assume there is an ulterior motive.

I really think the main argument *for* carbon offsets is that it *potentially* can harness free market mechamism to *efficiently* reduce emissions. This would be in contrast to a pure government mandate that everyone cut their emissions by some percent. The problem is that the marginal costs for industry X might be prohibitive; on the other hand industry Y could easily cut more. So why not have X pay Y to cut more than required? This *internalizes* the external benefits of extra reductions for Y.

Of course, it's very easy to screw this up, starting with letting people get away with fraud. But if you allow fraud in *any* market, that undermines the efficiency of the market. If you are going to get the entire economy to reduce emissions by some set goal, you need some mechanism to distribute those reductions so they're made where it's most efficient, and financial efficiency is one thing the free market excels at.

Maybe they are patriots and want to improve their country, rather than abandon it.

"You piss off the CCP, they will destroy you."

That's literally what the US government is doing too.

It's not the first time either, they tried it with Huawei too.

China does have TikTok. It's called Douyin. Same app, but a separate network.

Blinken is on record talking about why TikTok is a "threat" to national security. He mentions that, for example, Israeli PR doesn't work because people can see the reality being posted in real time on TikTok. There are also a lot of popular left leaning political accounts on there.

I.e. it's the wrong kind of free speech.

Slashdot ID is correlated solely with account creation time.

We've all known dumb old people, right?

"Apple has some of the best hardware you can buy."

As measured how?

Union can't protect workers who don't follow safety standards. That tells us that nobody was checking up to make sure they did because it might affect the bottom line, which in turn tells us it was management's fault and had nothing at all to do with any unions.

We already knew this because of all the cost cutting crap Boing has done over the years. Notably, they shifted a lot of production to contractors on whom they never checked up.