I can understand this attitude in the general public but it’s completely bizarre from HN engineers. Expect more more optimism for FBI/NSA backdoors in encryption next.
Will TikTok remove Chinese propaganda on their platform, how would that conversation even go at their offices? Can we trust that TikTok will not in future censor things that China finds uncomfortable such as Taiwan being an independent country?
Just a few months ago HN was getting exercised about the rights of Hong Kongers. I'd say it is wholly consistent with the political beliefs of the average HNer to want to see a social network operating from within an autocratic state to be banned from operating, or at least under heavy scrutiny.
And ban “bad” propaganda movies and media from the CCP?
And ban direct conversation with known “bad actors” in the CCP?
This sounds like a really slippery slope to me.
China does not care about free speech, nor does it pretend to. Allowing a popular forum for speech to operate out of China is dangerous.