I had actually assumed that this was more or less official policy already:
Maybe there was no official policy previously and the unofficial policy was a combination of âpatriotic user complaintsâ and âautomated scanningâ.
It seems likely that user posting will become untenable for many sites in China, due to the requirement to hire
a review and editing team suitable for the scale of services
That just doesnât seem viable for many smaller companies. In addition, there is the small risk of corruption of the review team from constant exposure to dissident comment.
It is well known that people living under an authoritarian regime develop their own way of speaking about things without actually saying it. It is possible that this language has become too subtle for the Chinese governmentâs AI - because otherwise surely automating this process is the way to go.
One interesting word that appears in that article is âeditâ - as in âreview and editâ. In many democratic contexts, âeditâ would be seen as unacceptable i.e. take down unacceptable content if you must but donât edit it to put words into the mouth of the author or to change the meaning or to change the posted text at all. I wonder how âeditâ is to be interpreted in this context. Maybe lost in translation.
I wouldnât be surprised at all if dissenting reviews were changed to something more âacceptable.â It would help the review and editing team resist the corruption you mentioned because theyâd be âcorrectingâ these âbadâ statements.
See⌠they didnât really want to say âthe CCP is repressive, they WILL NOT let me say what I want to sayâ What they REALLY wanted to say is âthe CCP is NOT repressive, they WILL let me say what I wanted to sayâ
You just have to move one word! And then theyâre allowed to say it! QED!
Is there a possibility to move the production of the base Librem 5 to Thailand or something?
For me it is totally wrong that Purism, Fairphone and others manufacture in PRC.
I know that almost always there will be parts made in PRC, but this is exactly the point - to do at least a little bit of effort to improve the situation and not just be a part of the problem.
Edit:
It is wrong because it bring us to a total dependency on a single country. Russia allowed itself to start a war because the EU is energy dependent. God knows what would PRC allow itself in the future because we are dependent on electronics made in PRC. Monopoly proves over and over and over again to be a bad thing. So a company that tries to be driven on principles should always do itâs best to break monopolies. In this case by manufacturing as much as possible outside of PRC.
I donât start a separate discussion as I donât see any necessity for a discussion. It is enough if Purism sees this post and think about it. The problem of being dependent on an authoritarian regime is so obvious that only very special kind of people would like to discuss such thing and such discussion would be a waste of time.
Better to transfer your question to a new thread (although it might be tangentially related to this threadâs topic).
Whatâs wrong with that? PRC has reliable manufacturers and they deliver quality (if you are willing to pay for it). Every other parameter is mainly BS.
I suggest forking the topic to pursue that. It may even have been discussed already, so a forum search would be a good precursor to forking.
Itâs worse than that. Can you say âjian huang shiâ?
They use a âMuskâ implant ?
Agree, this forum doesnât need country bashing.