Imagine casually dismissing a megacorp exec literally confessing to wanting to interfere in your country's election.

> They have littering been caught red-handed doctoring videos

1. At the very least source your claims.

2. Point out which parts of the linked post are doctored or in any way false.

https://www.projectveritas.com/news/insider-blows-whistle-ex...

https://medium.com/@micheleanderson/der-spiegel-journalist-m...

What made all this worse was the fact that Der Spiegel was looked up to for (supposedly) having a solid team of fact-checkers.

As the medium post shows (and the magazine's own investigation afterwards) was that not even basic and publicly available info was checked, such as the percentage of pro-Trump voters, let alone the rest of the original article's hilariously ridiculous claims.

Another Der Spiegel reporter who was suspicious of Relotius tried raising his concerns with the management after he did some digging of his own, which almost cost him his job and reputation:

https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/02/26/inenglish/15511...

Der Spiegel enjoyed the profits of Relotius' fiction and peddled literal fake news to the world for years, and the magazine's readers lapped it all up because it reinforced their biases.

The snide comments like the GP's are due to them living in the american bubble.

EDIT: also note the comment you're replying to is using a traditional workstation "slab" as an example. I'd rather use a small RPi that frees up more desk space than buy something that will make my work environment at home even more cramped!

>"Green," pro-independence, or "TI" (Taiwan Independence) would be the less confusing term for the side you think might lose with this development.

TIL, thanks for sharing!

And how long can they keep strict containment in force, and what happens when it lifted? You're speaking as if China or SK are now magically immune from a second wave as soon as they relax their restrictions.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBNG0osIBAprVcZZ3ic84vw

While Kitboga's scambaits are definitely entertaining and a waste of the scammers' time, Jim seems to be doing the work that a police unit should be doing.

The lesson from this is still not learned, and can see at least one apologist on this thread repeating this same BS again...it's infuriating.

If you have something they want - or are able to do something they want - it's quite obvious they will use your family as leverage.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/17/think-of-your-...

They also have no problem black-bagging non-compliant citizens, no matter how high-profile they seem to be:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-45806904

Blackmailing any random employee (with their family safely in the US or another western country) is absolutely not the same as blackmailing an employee with the family still living in China or Russia.

If you have family in China and you have access to government information or IP they want it is not at all far fetched they will do this.

Back on topic of green cards: whether you want to bury your head in the sand or face the reality that foreign dictatorships will use their own citizens to infiltrate their rivals is up to you. If you want to take the high road you can, and likely be excluded from government contract work.

Don't get me wrong on one thing, the west is in a precarious situation of openly doing the same thing in certain cases - eg: Australia's draconian backdoor law. I will not hire or recommend hiring an autralian dev working in Australia - and you can call me a racist or xenophobe if you want, it will not change the reason for the decision.

Fortunately for an australian immigrant abroad they are not going to have their family black-bagged for failure to submit to their government. I don't have this confidence for Russia, and especially not China.

You keep calling it xenophobia even after you've been proven wrong when you claimed this is targetted at green-card holders. You are absolutely disengenuous and have no intention at good-faith discussion.

Any american or european living in either country would similarly be affected by the ban. Untwist your knickers please.