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A New Future for Icanhazip

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980 points nkcmr | 1 comments | 06 Jun 21 19:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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toxik ◴[06 Jun 21 19:50 UTC] 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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egypturnash ◴[06 Jun 21 21:11 UTC] No.27416375[source]▶
China currently makes some absurdly large percentage of the world's consumer goods, and the discussions about producing them are probably being had over the internet. Cut them off of the internet and we have to rebuild manufacturing capacity everywhere else.

Which might not be a bad thing overall, but it's sure not gonna make any transnational corporation's bottom line happy over the next few quarters, so they'll be waving a lot of money at politicians to make this not happen.

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ALittleLight ◴[06 Jun 21 21:23 UTC] No.27416467[source]▶
China is an oppressive authoritarian state currently engaged in ethnic cleansing. How is enabling them indefinitely an option?
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1. egypturnash ◴[07 Jun 21 16:15 UTC] No.27424285[source]▶
It's totally an option if you're in a country effectively ruled by soulless transnational corporations who rank "making lots of money" several orders of magnitude more important than "any kind of ethical concern".

It's probably totally an option if you want to work for one of those corporations, too.