Also, China has become the 2nd largest nominal economy ( or the largest in terms of purchasing parity ) in the world without being open to immigration. Instead of letting agenda drive your reasoning, why not let the facts?
> Japan was expected to become the next global superpower in the 1980s
By whom? The media?
Nobody in their right mind thought Japan was going to be a global superpower. Japan depends almost entirely on the US for defense and resource acquisition. They neither had the population nor the resources nor the international presence to be a global superpower - economic or military.
I don't think google was naive. They did this intentionally and while it worked, they were willing to go with it. Now it doesn't work, so they are stamping it down. I wouldn't use the term "naive" when describing Page, Brin and especially Schmidt or google in general. Also, whether Google's motto was "Don't be evil" or "Be evil", "agenda" was going to affect their company from within/internal or without/external.
Also, anyone else find it strange that every post that has nothing to do with china has a comment that somehow tries to tie the story to china?
I get that a lot of propaganda vis a vis china is being pushed due to the trade war, but being so obvious doesn't help anything.
> I suspect a lot of anti-Zuck/'techlash' sentiment will die down if a Dem is elected next year.
If a Dem wins, the media/etc will praise tech/social media like they did after Obama won. Remember in 2008 when the media hailed Obama as the first "social media president". It's amazing how a single election shifted the narrative on an entire industry wholesale. It's like someone flipped a switch and the narrative went from positive to negative overnight.
What would have been the narrative had Hillary won? Would tech be credited with helping her win rather than attacked relentlessly by the media? The real question that isn't why the news industry was so upset? Isn't the news supposed to be objective and fair?
You get the same type of nonsense in regards to east asia. Like china, japan and korea have never gotten along and had been in an eternal state of war when in actuality, they had gotten along for most of the past millennium with the 20th century being an exception.
It's even worse than feel-good babble. It's signaling TBL's shift from advocating a decentralized free internet towards a centralized censored internet.
"Free speech? Fundamental rights?" are what we want, but people who claim to want free speech and then claim they want "Support the best in humanity"? "Build strong communities"? ultimately mean that they want censorship.
It's basically what happened to social media and the internet. Remember that everyone from Reddit to Zuckerburg to news companies claimed they supported free speech a decade ago. Then money/politics/etc got involved and they started talking about ""Support the best in humanity"? "Build strong communities"?" and we have a censored dystopia on our hands.
In china, they use "harmony" as a propaganda tool to justify censorship. In the west, we use "civility" along with "best in humanity", "universal human rights", etc to justify censorship.
The US? You do realize that the US became the largest economy in the world when it was isolationist and pretty much banned immigration right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924
Also, China has become the 2nd largest nominal economy ( or the largest in terms of purchasing parity ) in the world without being open to immigration. Instead of letting agenda drive your reasoning, why not let the facts?
> Japan was expected to become the next global superpower in the 1980s
By whom? The media?
Nobody in their right mind thought Japan was going to be a global superpower. Japan depends almost entirely on the US for defense and resource acquisition. They neither had the population nor the resources nor the international presence to be a global superpower - economic or military.