What really matters is the next game, the next movie, the next phone and the next crackdown. What matters is that you can buy governments, shut down protests and suppress the truth. What matters is that more people, in China and America, are realizing that what they want isn’t a sale: it’s freedom.
The linked article is a bit long and a bit rambling but I can’t disagree with it.
I would make a simpler point. The elites who are culturally dominant in these United States (and yearn to be politically dominant) want to repress BadThink, including support for traditional Christian values or gun rights or President Trump or even a view of human sexuality that was embraced by approximately 100% of the population at the time the previous president was elected.
An uncensored Internet and social media and movie/TV studios allows opponents of these leftist elites to communicate and exchange ideas and even (quelle horreur!) to organize to oppose the left. Therefore uncensored Internet and social media and movie/TV studios in these United States must not be permitted.
Similarly, the elites who are culturally and politically dominant in China want to repress their own version of BadThink. Therefore an uncensored Internet and social media and movie/TV studios in China must not be permitted.
These elites have a lot in common. The demands they make on lily-livered CEOs are not that different.
The NBA will tell Donald Trump to take a hike, but they won’t dare get on the wrong side of the communists. The ChiComs have no fear of the human flea circus. They know who holds the power.
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The linked article is a bit long and a bit rambling but I can’t disagree with it.
I would make a simpler point. The elites who are culturally dominant in these United States (and yearn to be politically dominant) want to repress BadThink, including support for traditional Christian values or gun rights or President Trump or even a view of human sexuality that was embraced by approximately 100% of the population at the time the previous president was elected.
An uncensored Internet and social media and movie/TV studios allows opponents of these leftist elites to communicate and exchange ideas and even (quelle horreur!) to organize to oppose the left. Therefore uncensored Internet and social media and movie/TV studios in these United States must not be permitted.
Similarly, the elites who are culturally and politically dominant in China want to repress their own version of BadThink. Therefore an uncensored Internet and social media and movie/TV studios in China must not be permitted.
These elites have a lot in common. The demands they make on lily-livered CEOs are not that different.
What the Z Man had to say yesterday:
http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=18875
See this for how “woke” Apple CEO Tim Cook really views China. Hypocrisy is an understatement.