Overtime in China is the norm, in factories, if you do 40 hrs per week, you will only get the minimum wage in your city, mostly around 200 dollars a month, and you will get kicked real quick.
This looks more like an industry behavior, which is not uncommon in China, for example Tencent blocked on its WeChat self-media platform(a little like Facebook's Instant Articles but much more low-brow and dominant) unflattering articles about PinDuoDuo when it was goinf public in the US, which they invested in.
Cellphone reviewers has long been under control of the brands, they give out guidlines about how to write the review along with test units, manage them in their work groups.
The 360 Chrome brower queries these URLs every time you start the browser or open a URL, namely to give the url a safety and info badge.
If you put UC into a debugger, you see a function with a very telling name "blocklist" pointing on a code with strings containing some github urls and, surprise, some defunct urls at microsoft.com and adsense cdn.
It's 2019, and people still keep forgetting stripping debug symbols.
Doesn't Chrome and Firefox do the same for known malicious websites? IIRC they use hashes and / or a local database of hashes, but I can't be sure. Pretty sure that caused major controversy in its earlier days too.
The QQ browser is the default for opening URLs in Tencent's popular messaging apps QQ and WeChat, so it probably has a larger market share than UC. The others are a bit more niche I think, but I don't know for sure. There should be some statistics on this page by Baidu, but I can't confirm because it requires Flash (!) and I'm on mobile: https://tongji.baidu.com/data/browser
I've noticed that this story is sliding off the front page incredibly quickly, despite the large number of points accumulated in a short amount of time. Does anyone know why?
As long as you are very clear you are not directing your anger at the government, it's usually ok to protest in China. For example, there are often mass protests if wages are not paid to factory workers, etc.
Is not that the same in other countries? In Russia you also need to negotiate the protest at least 10 days before the event (and the government has lot of excuses to deny it).
In US, the First Amendment protects "right of the people peaceably to assemble", so the ability to restrict it via permits is somewhat limited. In general, a permit is only required if the protest is large enough to be significantly disruptive. Normally this means that so long as you can stay on the sidewalks without disrupting pedestrian traffic, you're good.
Sometimes, municipalities still try to block protests because of politics/people they don't like participating, under the guise of some more neutral explanation (usually noise or safety). But judges generally take a dim view on such shenanigans, and they rarely pass scrutiny in the courtroom, since the government is then expected to explain the exact grounds for denial, and prove that it is relevant and narrowly tailored.
This seems more like corporate entities reaching to silence dissent.
Not sure they always reach for a solution like " reeducation camp, or elimitated" in such cases... I don't think it says anything about censorship or the autocracy in China that some folks who don't like working long hours aren't in prison, or are still alive.
I think they would simply talk to the person first. Maybe the person is sincerely mistaking, stop their harmful behaviour and there will be no need in a reeducation camp.
Well how would you know if they were and the operators haven't been replaced by government agents? There's rumours that the same thing happened with Wikileaks and it's now controlled by US government agents.
I suspect in the near future devices sold in China will be unable to install certain apps (similar to how Apple recently removed Taiwan's national flag for all Macs sold in China with its latest update - https://mobile.twitter.com/jeremyburge/status/11109235618820...), foreign browsers will stop working (and be forced to implement support for this functionality to the extent that the Chinese government can not only block specific pages on https (as we see here) but also replace the individual page with their own content).. This will make it very easy for China to not only censor the internet, but also to rewrite history completely. Replace the Wikipedia article related to the Tienanmen massacre with their own, replace Googles search results with their own, etc.
To make matters even more scary, they'll put great emphasis on promoting their own browsers in foreign countries, force hardware vendors to preinstall their browsers on devices sold outside China. Forget about the Chinese Firewall, this will take censorship and rewritten history to a whole new level that will affect people all over the world, and make it much much easier to affect foreign policies and elections.
Now for the sad part, even after they've showed their cards, companies and governments will still continue to invest in China, continue to bend over and do whatever they ask for.
Angry comments that begin "I suspect" do not count as substantive on HN.
If you continue to break the site guidelines by using HN primarily for political battle, we're going to ban you, as I explained yesterday. That's not because we support dystopian surveillance, evil dictatorships, or whatnot. It's because we need to protect the commons here as a place for intellectual curiosity, rather than a scorched-earth battlefield.
So now HN readers are not allowed to make predictions based on past and recent behaviour and revelations (that in my opinion make these predictions extremely likely)? Anyhow it's your site, your rules. I visit HN to discover new technology, and engage mostly with privacy-related discussions (since other topics that interest me rarely if ever appear on HN). If you think the site would be better off without my comments then feel free to ban me.
I don't want to ban you! I would rather try to persuade you to use the site as intended. It's in your interest to do so, because if HN becomes a flamewar wreck, it won't remain a good place to discover new technology or do the other things people like to do here.
>Now for the sad part, even after they've showed their cards, companies and governments will still continue to invest in China, continue to bend over and do whatever they ask for.
Publicly-traded companies are completely enslaved to profit-seeking because of their overriding need to appease shareholders, lest shareholders fire them and install someone more willing to do whatever it takes to seek profit.
This is why regulation is necessary -- not because businesses are amoral, but because shareholders are, and businesses have to be whatever shareholders want them to be.
If we want businesses to act a certain way toward political and social freedoms abroad, we have to either tie the hands of employees through prohibitions or incentivize shareholders toward other avenues of seeking profit.
What an interesting implementation of 1984's "Ministry of Truth", just threaten the commercial providers of your crap with market exclusion.
It always irks me that we (I and my non-tech friends) now communicate using media controlled by corporations, e.g. WhatsApp or FB Messenger, or Google Chat. At least email is still open. On FB Messenger you can't share PirateBay URLs because they "may be harmful to your computer".
It'd be wonderfully dystopian if desperate Mark agreed to China's requirements so he could gain a few more million advertising targets in "the growing market", and after that point you'd no longer be able to talk about Taiwan because, let's see, how about the error message "this topic may be harmful to the national security of China"?
They’ll rewrite any article that they feel is a threat to their power systems and therefore a threat to China. No surprise there. We have similar measures in the US - the government is willing to strip your rights if they feel you’re a threat.
There is nothing really all that new in what you’ve suggested. I would be surprised if those things didn’t happen.
I've never seen any major browser (or some other method) censor/rewrite an individual page that's protected by SSL before.. as far as I know then it's not possible, which is why they've had to resort to banning the entire website (which in GitHub's case would be too costly).. If you know about previous incidents then please do share.
From today we know they are already able to do whatever they please (as long as they can get people to use their browser).. abuse other organizations reputation to spread lies and misinformation. If governments don't act then it won't be long until all these Huawei, Lenovo, OnePlus, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, etc devices come with their browsers preinstalled (and likely default back to their browser to open links from other apps even if you tried to change the browser).
> the government is willing to strip your rights if they feel you’re a threat.
And most citizens won't make a peep about it if it's painted as "fighting (or preventing) terrorism". Case in point: the door-to-door searches in the wake of the Boston Marathon Bombing, which were a violation of the 4th Amendment.
> they'll put great emphasis on promoting their own browsers in foreign countries, force hardware vendors to preinstall their browsers on devices sold outside China
This will also help them monitor people's communications to acquire kompromat. See also the Chinese ownership of Grindr.