I thought we don't want to be like China?
You aren't going to spread your form of "democracy" across the world by doing what the "oppressive" regimes are doing.
You aren't going to spread your form of "democracy" across the world by doing what the "oppressive" regimes are doing.
If you’re in the Olympics and your competitor is doping, you shouldn’t practice doping yourself, but you can refuse to compete.
I'm not saying the US is blameless either, but with China, it's nearly shameless. In the tech industry alone, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitch, Steam, LinkedIn, Dropbox, ChatGPT and Copilot, Github (partially), etc are all banned in China. Shoot, Google left a decade ago after they kept getting hacked by the Chinese government. When China was still quite poor and developing, this behavior was overlooked, but as they become a rich world power on the global stage, that's not the situation anymore.
> whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also (Jesus)
> I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one (Gandhi)
Sometimes deterring punishment is the only thing that keeps people from abusing tolerance or freedom to destroy that tolerance and freedom, but it needs to stay a measure of last resort.
It’s interesting indeed how tolerance and freedom interact with each other’s. To put another perspective, here’s a quote from an unrelated text (0)
> Middle Eastern Muslim culture expert Marvin Zonis notes that Arab societies value the honor and dignity of the individual more than personal liberty.
I 100% about the benefits of (sometime) punishments, but also perhaps a bit less liberty to make space for other values might have benefits. I’m not sure where to place the slider on that scale, as too much honor and dignity can be quite restrictive.
I guess we've dropped the whole "Global fair trade leads to a more free, peaceful and democratic world" argument that used to be so popular?
Global Free Trade is based on the Stag Hunt Principle - all players need to be aligned to cooperate in order to "hunt the stag".
If players decide they wish to undermine the principle of fair trade, then they should be isolated.
For example, if China has banned FB or Google from operating without Chinese government oversight, then we should do the same with TikTok and WeChat.
Sadly, yes. It took Russia invading Ukraine and threatening the E.U. for it to sink in. Now it's pretty much accepted that the experiment failed.
Doing the market research and opportunity and presenting it on a stage can be very helpful sometimes, other times it can seem a little head scratching.
It's fine to be open, start with the ICP.
Tired: "spreading" democracy.
Wired: battening down the hatches so you don't lose your democracy.
It's a new world, you just haven't received the memo yet.
Beginning with choice.