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| China Still Censoring Google, Now Globally Posted: 28 Apr 2020 12:28 PM PDT Google Gets Out of ChinaIn March of 2010 Google announced they would no longer censor their search results for China:
While the move was pitched as altruistic, it came only after the state put their thumb on the scales to promote domestic competitor Baidu in part by periodically blocking Google search from working. The Value of Leaving ChinaBy leaving China on their own accord, Google controlled the narrative for investors. They didn't "lose" a market, they chose to not operate in a market. If you are destined to lose due to political interference, you may as well look principled in the process. The idea of staying the course (being highly compromised while also losing) would have lowered Google's leverage (over publishers and governments) as well as their brand value elsewhere. Think of how long Google has kept the EU at bay in terms of their anti-competitive practices in search. Countries like France and Australia are just now beginning to require payment to publishers from Google. In spite of being in fifth place with about 2% search marketshare in China, one could easily argue that today Google is *still* being censored by China, except now it is global. Official != LegitimateWhenever there is a crisis Google has the ability to adjust their news algorithms (and rankings on other sources like YouTube) to prefer authoritative sources. If China lies but gives a direct quote that is an official response which can be reported in the media. Speculating, on the other hand, is not news, and thus is not likely to be done at scale on official sources. The WHO parroted the official line of the Chinese Communist Party for months before sending in a team to begin investigating the virus which was quietly spreading globally in the background. This is evil (or, more charitably, ill-informed) their advice was:
Evidence is Backward LookingPromoting "consistent, evidence-based" risk control is utterly stupid because the evidence that you are dead only appears after you die. It is not a game of 50/50 chance. One outcome is death. And at the other end of the spectrum you spent $15 needlessly on a facemask. How lowly must you view the value of a human life to determine a $15 spend on risk mitigation is reckless behavior? Don't exceed the global standards based on China's misinformation. OR ELSE!!!
Evidence is backward looking even if the sources are not lying scum. When lying is vital to maintaining political power many people die while waiting on the true. Can anyone who followed official anti-warnings get a refund on their death? Better luck next life? Evidence
While China's CCP was lying to the world, the WHO shared appreciation for their commitment to sharing info. Not Just ChinaHealth officials the world over were guilty of the same sort of "evidence-based" stupidity. Here is a video from February of NYC health commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot advising people to go out and take the subway and live their lives, noting that city preparedness is high, their personal risk is low, and casual contact was not a large risk.
You can see the stupidity in the circular logic here: "we also know that if it were likely to be transmitted casually we would be seeing a lot more cases." Yes we would! Time shift that statement a couple months and lawmakers are asking her to be fired. May you enjoy a happy Lunar New Year:
Later, as evidence emerged, we learn from serological studies that around 24.7% of people in New York City & 14.9% of New York state had antibodies for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. If you are a poor minority you are more likely to die as you have less of a cushion to do things like taking time off work and AVOID TAKING THE SUBWAY. Thank you Dr. Oxiris Barbot! Even the New York Times warned against quarantines, virtually guaranteeing the city would get one. Protecting Yourself from Dr. Oxiris Barbot & the CCPHow many billions of dollars do people spend buying lotto tickets? A high-quality facemask was a $15 lotto ticket that might save you from death. But buying one was ill-informed & xenophic & antisocial and and and. Back in January I saw a video on Twitter of a guy walking down the street in Wuhan and then just fall over and die. Upon seeing that, I quickly ordered facemasks for my wife, our babysitter, my wife's parents, my mom, and my siblings. My mom thought I was crazy for spending hundreds buying so many masks, but it was a fairly simple calculation. Whatever China was saying was hot garbage as they were literally welding apartment complexes shut. Ongoing Disinformation CampaignThey accosted doctors who warned of the pending pandemic, locked down millions of people, and held internal briefs about human to human transmission was happening while lying externally about it. China then pushed some garbage about how the US Army created the coronavirus which caused COVID-19, then they both claimed it was racist to state the disease came from China while also claiming it originated in Italy. That's the CCP - literally zero shame. You can be against the jackbooted CCP while not hating Chinese people. I would rather be wrongly called a racist and not die of coronavirus than virtue signal my way to death via Italy's "Hug a Chinese" day. As a general rule of thumb, life is more important than the feelz. My wife took a DNA test and a big part of her ethnic background is Chinese. When she and I are in the Philippines many people think she is a foreigner. When I was walking with my wife in Hong Kong years ago a local street vender started talking to her in Chinese thinking she was a local. And there's nobody in the world I love more than her, but that does not mean she or I are planning a trip to Wuhan anytime soon or wanted to end up as statistics as a side effect of virtue signaling. To this day China is using their ability to purchase foreign debts & infrastructure across weaker European countries to push the EU to understate the culpability of the CCP:
Maintaining The Illusion of StabilityThe doom scenario for China would be one where the disease spread widely across their society while not directly impacting other economies. Currencies float and trade can eventually be re-routed if supply chains are unreliable. If a place where repeated coronavirus outbreaks happen has massive hidden debts in their shadow economy the propped up currency peg would likely fall as those debts go bad and their economy crashes. Hot money has been rushing out of China for years: their companies buying foreign companies, individuals buying foreign real estate, short domain names, Bitcoin, life insurance policies, etc. China already faced sharp food price inflation last year as African Swine Flu killed a lot of their herd. When people can't afford to eat they are more likely to push for political change. Hyperinflation is the reciprocal of political stability. Maintaining a stable food supply is a core requirement of staying in power. Masks might make no difference, but if I spend a fraction of a percent of my income protecting my immediate and extended family even slightly then that is a good investment. What is the price of a single needless death? That is the calculation one should use when adopting simple & cheap life changes that can protect their families and society as a whole. The mainstream media not only downplayed Covid-19 to pitch Trump as xenophobic & neurotic, but after the most important story they got entirely wrong was revealed as the disaster it was, they also warned about the wrong people hoarding much needed supplies. If people would have rushed to buy masks in January it would have sent the market signal to make more. Virtue signaling was considered more important than life. Instead of any attempts at truth we got communist-fed false assurances to provide the illusion of stability. Lives lack value when compared against maintaining political power:
Fake News About Fake NewsAs China was lying to the world, setting hundreds of thousands of people up for death & destroying the global economy, we suggested the problem was not lies from the CCP or the disease that spread globally in part due to their lies, but rather we should fight "fake news"
The WHO shills for the CCP:
As the WHO praises the CCP we learn fake news is anything which counters the WHO. And to protect people globally and fight sources of fake news Google is working with ... the WHO:
YouTube is also removing medically substantiated content about coronavirus. Even the China Uncensored video about the CCP's coverup has a COVID-19 learn more banner redirecting attention back to official sources. Now there are some horrible and ridiculous official statements being made & a whole bunch of crazies spreading "eat aquarium cleaner, protect yourself from COVID-19." I even read a story about a guy who committed suicide because he feared he had COVID-19. All that stuff is horrible, but any and all attempts to defuse those horrible issues & clean them up should come with a note about how the CCP lied broadly, extensively, and is to not be trusted in any way, shape or form. The AP report continues...
And so should we! At least while we still can:
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