Canada Set to Side With China On EVs (www.thewirechina.com)

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[-] hildegarde 1 points 4 days ago

Yes? And what is uniquely chinese about this issue? Samsung, the korean company pushed ads in an update to their smart fridges. That channel could just as easily be used to brick the fridges, by the manufacturer or another malicious actor.

Nothing about any of this is china specific. None of these issues can be solved by sanctioning one country. There need to be laws to prevent any company from selling products with these problems. That is the only possible solution.

[-] LoveCanada@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Two significant differences. Korea is not a major world player with aspirations to dominate the world economy. China is. And is succeeding.

And Korea is a presidential constitutional republic with a liberal democratic system. China is a one-party communist state that is governed by the CCP which gives them a total monopoly of political power. A look into history says we should be leery of any party that operates with a total monopoly. So yes, very China specific.

[-] hildegarde 1 points 1 day ago

Korea is a major world player with aspirations to dominate the world economy. That's kind of the premise behind capitalism. Samsung isn't content being a small company, they are a megacorporation involved in pretty much every part of Korean society, from heavy machinery, to insurance, to medicine, electronics, capital investments, construction and more. Your assertion that only china wants to dominate international markets is patently untrue. Capitalism is defined by endless greed. No corporation would turn down domination if it has the means.

Corporations are not democratic. Korean citizens do not get to vote for the samsung president. Corporations are the ones doing these things, not democratic institutions.

Security and privacy are issues that matter. Violating privacy and making devices less secure isn't only a problem when china does it.

[-] LoveCanada@lemmy.ca 1 points 18 hours ago

I grew up during the Cold War. Im well aware of the difference between the Red Threat and every other country in the world. With all due respect, you sound a bit naive about China.

[-] hildegarde 1 points 16 hours ago

You seem naive believing that corporations in other countries operate with restraint.

I agree with you that both modern tech and china are bad. However, these things are not related. You seem blinded by anti chinese prejudice, which is leading you to conflate these two issues.

If china imploded and stopped existing, modern tech would still have all the issues we discussed.

If Canada were able to implement a perfect data security law that was fully effective in banning all of these technological bad practices we discussed, it would not change china's position in the market.

That has been my point this whole time. These issues are unrelated. If you disagree, please address my point directly.

[-] LoveCanada@lemmy.ca 1 points 16 hours ago

It matters who holds the data. The US holding it is a concern. China holding it is a major concern because of their ideological beliefs.

The horse has left the barn and there's no getting our privacy back again. But we CAN keep China from collecting even more and having open access to our entire country.