Not sure how many Xinjiang people and Chinese who are sympathetic to Xinjiang people are arrested after CCR blocked Clubhouse.
Or prove me wrong, at least stop using Chinese SaaS service if they really care about their user. Or better, use an open source implementation to support their service.
Is there a term for this form of argument? Like where someone makes a rhetorical question after seeding the answer? Its like creating a false dilemma, where one intentionally removes non-binary choices for their own agenda, but its not quite a false dilemma yet, except after someone responds about how weak this form of argument is by presenting second, third and fourth reasons that were outside of the boundaries of the question but inside the boundaries of reality.
The bigger question right here is why startup culture works so successfully. The purpose of a VC Startup assumes to create a product to expand the marketshare to the world eventually. And it was based on the assumption of globalization. In a world where it was less polarized to politics opinion and enjoy the economical growth and appreciation of new tech. A entrepreneur who neglect geo-politics could do pretty fine in this environment.
With the rise of sharp power of China, the question is not so straightforward. Hollywood company faced China's influence by banning content that is not favorable to China, in order to get access to China's market. Airline companies were threatened by China to not referring Taiwan as country otherwise a boycott to those airline. If a company just comply to China's request or threat, then they could potentially piss off Taiwan and Hong Kong customers, and potentially losing other countries in the free world if the PR was too bad. However, they don't comply, then they could potentially lose access to China's market. It is difficult to be neutral and not taking side, because of the polarization of both parties. Not taking side was potentially the worst option which would piss off both side because both thinks the company does not stand for their value.
It is just a extension of this underwater war. The take right here is if a startup is intended to be used by the world, the owner may need to be prepared for unintentionally pissing off a potential group of customers because of not understanding sensitive geo-polictics issue.
Deciding that China’s gatekeeping is worse just because it comes the government is where we lose a lot of possibility of introspection from people.
because a lot of Chinese companies are really good at voice related services due to the ubiquitous use of it in China. (typing Mandarin is annoying because you have to use pinyin).
Maybe, because that startup does a good job for an reasonable cost.
> Clubhouse is a honey pot for CCP
No it's a fancy life style app which doesn't care about censorship resistance at all. As far as I know you can be pretty sure that any service operating in China will have backdoors or similar of some form, through potentially only for their Chinese users.
So as long as you don't use a service which explicitly cares about censorship and privacy which also operates in China you shouldn't trust them with any sensitive information at all especially if part of the "conversation" is "in china". I mean I would be seriously surprised if the key-server of e.g. zoom doesn't leak encryption keys for "(partial) in china" conversations to the government.
And coming back to clubhouse while they might seem to be privacy orientated on the first sight they are, as far as I can tell not. They just use "exclusivity" as a way to sell there product and mistaking this "exclusivity" with privacy would be a big mistake.
I mean some of the most common usages of club house are basically a fancy form of a pod-cast "just more exclusive".
> Or prove me wrong
Your argument is as much based on biased assumptions as is mine. So this discussion is pretty far away from any prove in any direction tbh.
That fact of life is not guiding factor for why corporations create technology, compete for contracts, and make revenue.
And there is a lot of technology there. It is an innovative, high growth, competitive maybe overly competitive, and dense part of the world. Most of which has nothing to do with what's happening on the other side of the Gobi desert. If that is to be your cause, great, because that's going to keep happening, but its a large stretch to make that the sole guiding factor for everyone else that creates or simply uses software from China.
If you are subject to that system, then you should use discretion on Clubhouse, that would really be the entirety of your message.