JS getting rusty

China: amateurs

Okay, you are possibly right here. After digging into China’s law, they do include laws that allows investigations into companies that is monopoly overseas as long as the company has business in China.

But my end point still stands; this is still a very specific time to start the investigation, Android dominance is definitely a part of cause, but in the end it is just a part of political drama between two asshole governments that end up not benefiting both county’s people

It’s Web Directory. The search engine part is Search Plus, Baidu, Sogou and Bing, where the default search plus is just Baidu again.

Google sure is a cancer, but you are not putting it in the context. They literally only provide two major services in Mainland China:

1. ads, which basically allow Chinese business to put ads on Google Ads and Google AdMob
2. developer services like GoLang and Tensorflow, but their main business in China right now is Android licensing for Chinese Mobilephone brands for their international versions.

So,

1. For ads, Google AdMob and Google Ads are not accessible in China;
2. for dev services, all Android phone in China right now are basically based on AOSP, because in China Google Framework is not useable.

From this standpoint, there is no visible reason for an antitrust probe in China.

Edit: After digging into China’s antitrust law, they do include laws that allows investigations into companies that is monopoly overseas as long as the company has business in China. So yeah, they do have reasons.

Got curious and went to the original page, and it is literally just one sentence vague announcement:

Due to Google’s alleged violation of the “Anti-Monopoly Law of the People’s Republic of China,” the State Administration for Market Regulation has lawfully initiated an investigation into Google.

Really not sure what they actually launched the antitrust probe for; this is just pure political drama lol

Edit: Okay, it is possibly because of Android dominance, but again, still a political drama

Their search service is banned but they still have ad (AdMob and Google Ads) and developer services (GoLang, Firebase, Android, Tensorflow, etc) there. and their last customer-targeted service remaining are Google Chrome (www.google.cn/chrome) and a website directory Google 265 (www.265.com)

I mean, imagine a reality where a bunch of humans end up using the same service like that, between two countries at odds, and they realize that they have a lot more in common than they thought possible. It could be a bridge that changes a world.

The answer is Fediverse. From last time I checked while I am in Mainland China, lemmy.world is not banned (yet lemmy.ml is banned lol)

I am also able to use my own Mastodon instance in Mainland China.

Fediverse is the key and tool to break the Great Firewall.

This sounds weird… forum culture is mostly dead in China

I saw people in some Chinese source saying XiaoHongShu is updating the algorithm to segregate Chinese users and foreign users (image 1) and hiring English Post Inspectors (image 2) to moderate English contents due to China’s policy

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It’s kind of like why there are Weixin and WeChat, Douyin and TikTok, Taobao and AliExpress, Pinduoduo and Temu

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Hi HP, I want my printer boring as it should be

Glad I moved away from Spotify to Apple Music years ago (for different reasons tho)

I have to use for work, because all our customer only uses chrome or chrome-based browser :(

More competition is always a good thing

Btw I love The Register’s title; they are usually so fun

Business people see the word AI mentioned in the products: invest invest invest! Business people see AI products hit with honest tech reviews: thoSe PEAsants aRE RUIning ThE InnOVATIOn

Basically hardware keys (like YubiKey) without hardware

“wE VAlue prOviDING oUR CuStomERs With CHOice, So THerE IS An OPtIoN to DisMiss tHE NOTiFiCATiON” - Microsoft responding to Windows Latest regarding this

Shadowsocks/ShadowsocksR/vmess/vless/trojan: