• BB69@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    As soon as Opera was acquired by the Chinese company, I told everybody to dump it ASAP.

    Reddit said I was ignorant and racist because I had “no proof” that the new company was doing something wrong

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      8 months ago

      I mean, yeah, just leaving it at “china bad” is still xenophobia. Tech companies in the US and other countries can be just as shady.

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        8 months ago

        “Chinese bad” is xenophobia

        “China = surveillance state” is the most basic of common sense

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        Yeah it’s very easy to misinterpret that as sinophobia and not a repeat behavior of chinese capitalists buying stuff out then sucking them dry. Especially when you put it next to actually sinophobic shit like what happens with discussions of Tencent and DikDok being evil spyware. It’s reddit; people are just going to assume you’re racist unless you show otherwise, because that’s usually a safe bet.

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        8 months ago

        lol it was obvious when a random Chinese company purchased what was going to happen.