Is China at the source of the PC tech industry push?

Medicated said:
I find it ironic that the pro-leftist "woke" people on tumblr were the first big casualty of communist China bringing in their government censorship. It'd be a bad time to be a marxist running a pedophilia blog on tumblr. Since they were investing in the parent company around the time of the purge.
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That was Apple's doing my dude. They removed the Tumblr app from their store and wouldn't put it back on until the pedo content was removed.

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/tumblr-app-disappears-from-the-ios-app-store.50128/
 
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neural said:
That was Apple's doing my dude. They removed the Tumblr app from their store and wouldn't put it back on until the pedo content was removed.

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/tumblr-app-disappears-from-the-ios-app-store.50128/
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From the article:

So here’s where things get interesting; Tumblr’s stake in the social media game was unique compared to other firms. Neither Facebook nor Twitter actually have anywhere near majority Chinese investment. Tumblr however? Due to their entanglement with Yahoo and Oath/VMG listed above (Note: Yahoo was acquired by Verizon in 2017, and thus Tumblr moved from Yahoo to Verizon as well), Tumblr can be seen as a remote proxy of Alibaba; their parent company is a major shareholder in the latter, but that influence works two ways especially since Alibaba’s shares were worth more than Yahoo itself prior to its sale, causing a consolidation into its own company. Note that additionally, Tumblr has a illegal presence in China thanks to firewall circumvention;in fact, the Chinese users of Tumblr even commented on the porn ban themselves.

So the only social media app that got singled out is the only one with an essentially direct Chinese relationship? This comes during the exact same quarter of the year that Apple’s relationship with China deteriorated too; not only did they blame revenue loss for 2018 on Chinese censorship specifically, but also predicted Apple may altogether be pushed out of China due to “heavy handed censorship”. Given the clear handle China seems to have on Apple, and the seeming coincidence of the app being pulled having a connection to China, is there something more insidious happening behind the scenes? It’s food for thought.
 
Medicated said:
From the article:

So here’s where things get interesting; Tumblr’s stake in the social media game was unique compared to other firms. Neither Facebook nor Twitter actually have anywhere near majority Chinese investment. Tumblr however? Due to their entanglement with Yahoo and Oath/VMG listed above (Note: Yahoo was acquired by Verizon in 2017, and thus Tumblr moved from Yahoo to Verizon as well), Tumblr can be seen as a remote proxy of Alibaba; their parent company is a major shareholder in the latter, but that influence works two ways especially since Alibaba’s shares were worth more than Yahoo itself prior to its sale, causing a consolidation into its own company. Note that additionally, Tumblr has a illegal presence in China thanks to firewall circumvention;in fact, the Chinese users of Tumblr even commented on the porn ban themselves.

So the only social media app that got singled out is the only one with an essentially direct Chinese relationship? This comes during the exact same quarter of the year that Apple’s relationship with China deteriorated too; not only did they blame revenue loss for 2018 on Chinese censorship specifically, but also predicted Apple may altogether be pushed out of China due to “heavy handed censorship”. Given the clear handle China seems to have on Apple, and the seeming coincidence of the app being pulled having a connection to China, is there something more insidious happening behind the scenes? It’s food for thought.
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The Chinese weren't behind the change of content (which in this case, a change for the better, how can anyone morally or legally justify the open monetization of say, diaperfur or pedophile content? That shit is legitimately horrifying).

Tumblr has been blocked in China since 2016 by the way, still blocked even after the changes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Websites_blocked_in_mainland_China
 
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