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toxik ◴[] No.27415754[source]
Chinese originated spam and abuse is so outrageously widespread, I don’t understand why there isn’t a conversation going on about cutting them off from the wider internet. They blocked most of it anyway.
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mwcampbell ◴[] No.27416937[source]
It stands to reason that an especially large volume of abuse will originate from the most populous country in the world. I don't think that's a reason to cut them off from the global Internet. If it's true that their government is already oppressing their own people (I don't know what's truth and what's propaganda), then the rest of us shouldn't make it worse for those people by cutting off whatever outside connections they manage to have.

Also, I'm generally bothered by comments like this one that stir up the general human tendency toward xenophobia. We should be fighting that tendency within ourselves, not fighting the out group. Whichever group of people we want to demonize, we should remember that they're people just like us. We shouldn't punish the majority of them for what a minority are doing to us.

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1. toxik ◴[] No.27416963[source]
They are not the most connected country, but a long shot. Why isn’t India no. 2 by your logic? Stop apologizing for unacceptable behavior from a country that openly purports to become “the superpower of the world”.
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2. mwcampbell ◴[] No.27417087[source]
I'm not apologizing for anyone's bad behavior; I just don't want us to escalate an already tense situation. "The only winning move is not to play", right?
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3. xwolfi ◴[] No.27417339[source]
But that's fair they become it. After all they're 20% of humanity...
4. rakoo ◴[] No.27419876[source]
Yes, they are the most connected country in number of users (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of...) and that's what matters: the more users there are, the more malicious activity there will be
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5. toxik ◴[] No.27420124[source]
I don’t think number of people with internet access is a good measure of connectedness at all. Curiously, you dodged my question on why India isn’t the same when your list also shows they should be.
6. toxik ◴[] No.27420126[source]
No, you can’t let somebody poke you with a stick and go “the only winning move is not to play” and pretend like it’s raining.