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Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong

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1456 points pulisse | 3 comments | 07 Oct 19 16:24 UTC | HN request time: 2.245s | source
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yungcoder ◴[08 Oct 19 00:27 UTC] No.21187453[source]▶
Between this and the NBA's capitulation to making the Rockets' GM retract his statements on Hong Kong, at what point does appeasement just become acceptance of China's behavior? Sure, from the individual business' perspective they don't want to risk alienating the Chinese government and losing the Chinese market, but if China sees that they can get their way by simply threatening foreign companies then it will just embolden them to push for more concessions down the road. Quite frankly this all stinks of 1930s European appeasement policy and we all know how that turned out.
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acangiano ◴[08 Oct 19 01:09 UTC] No.21187697[source]▶
A recent South Park episode parodied this quite well.
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on_and_off ◴[08 Oct 19 02:16 UTC] No.21188017[source]▶
It felt weird to see such a good episode from South Park after how much they have lost touch with reality at some point.

Well .. subjectively I did not find it very funny so maybe not an all time high episode, but the critic was absolutely on point and something that very few people are talking about.

China has a lot of control on what can be included in a hollywood movie.

Propaganda is not exactly new ... after all the US army also has a lot of control when they give support to a movie and demand that they are portrayed favorably but this time it is from one country to another.

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1. foota ◴[08 Oct 19 03:48 UTC] No.21188568[source]▶
"but this time it is from one country to another"

Isn't Hollywood the same?

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2. on_and_off ◴[08 Oct 19 05:14 UTC] No.21188977[source]▶
I am not sure I follow ?
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3. foota ◴[09 Oct 19 02:13 UTC] No.21199351[source]▶
You said, with regards to China influencing things in the US: "Propaganda is not exactly new ... after all the US army also has a lot of control when they give support to a movie and demand that they are portrayed favorably but [this time it is from one country to another]"

I'm pointing out though that the influence the US has through Hollywood is effectively global, and therefore also "from one country to another".