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Video clips of the podcast in particular that this article is referring to, can be viewed here: https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/s6maje/billionaire_s...
For reference, link to the All-In podcast, to listen to the entire episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbeHyN15HQE
After Lithuania allowed Taiwan to open a representative office in Vilnius under the "Taiwan" name, and subsequently getting blocked from Chinese customs from EU shipping routes [2], and now being asked to change the ID of their diplomats to remove the diplomatic status, many would not doubt that the Chinese government would arrest and detain some embassy staff in this move, as ordinary residents of the country, like they have done in the past in the case of Canadians [3]
[1] https://www.ft.com/content/587cff8f-3a7f-45c3-b4c7-8ac6f3e0a...
[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/china-lithuania-trade-idUSKB...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Michael_Spavor_an...
The real estate firm — which Left targeted in a 2012 short report — now faces a reckoning on its $300 billion in liabilities.
No paywall link to the WSJ article: https://archive.is/6XRw3
must have been flagged by a few people
And knowing her reputation in the hacker community, it is anything but unlikely to me that something like this has happened.
“The list of sanctioned companies includes current and former suppliers to major international brands such as Apple, Ralph Lauren, Google, HP, Tommy Hilfiger, Hugo Boss and Muji, according to a report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a think tank established by the Australian government. The group cited the websites of the sanctioned Chinese companies, which mentioned their financial relationships with major American brands.”
“I have been told by sources at Apple that these decisions are made at the highest level; the decision to reinstate @hkmaplive was reversed by Tim Cook himself”
[1] https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/12803650546557911...
Sixthly, moral and ethics are set arbitrarily. The U.S. domestic politics dominate every discussion. At this very moment, thousands of Uyghurs are put into concentration camps based on computer vision algorithms invented by this community, and nobody seems even remotely to care. Adding a "broader impact" section at the end of every people will not make this stop. There are huge shitstorms because a researcher wasn't mentioned in an article. Meanwhile, the 1-billion+ people continent of Africa is virtually excluded from any meaningful ML discussion (besides a few Indaba workshops).
[1] https://www.inkstonenews.com/tech/linkedin-says-profile-poli...
Compared to #1 and #2 ranked posts, which have half the upvotes, but uploaded within the same hour or two, this post is ranked #19.
Maybe many people are "flag"-ing the post so the HN ranking algorithm pushes it lower.
(Edit: For the record, I don't believe the HN mods are doing any downmodding here, and it's probably just due to the ranking algorithm and behavior of the HN audience)
See the recent WSJ piece: "Facebook, Twitter, Google Face Free-Speech Test in Hong Kong" (https://redd.it/hkw6yh)