Nonsense. It is WELL ESTABLISHED that in the case of riots the Government can authorize the National Guard to shoot looters on sight. There is nothing even remotely illegal about that (perhaps immoral and unethical, but not illegal). Stating that if the looting continues he will choose to take the legal action of…

6 months ago it was “’tech’ companies have too much power; they don’t do enough to censor inappropriate content”. Now it’s “’tech’ companies have too much power; deciding what to censor”. First it’s “I can’t believe we’re going to release a search engine in China, adhering to local censorship laws”. Then it’s “search…

When you say the President threatening violence “must not be allowed”, I’m with you.  But how does taking down a post stop him?  If he’s going to use military force, potentially resulting in civilian deaths, why would you hide that comment?  He’s going to tell the military to do it anyway.  Taking down the post does…

Nice to know that your legal expertise extends to divining what the Supreme Court would include in its sense of limits to free speech, complete with emotional rhetoric and partisan arrogance... “...must not be allowed...”

Good guy China, setting the record straight as it matches onward toward world dominance.

This really shows China’s long game. The average American isn’t going to see this unless media (like here) brings it to the forefront. This is aimed to manipulate the thinking of the next generation.

Is this tongue in cheek? Why assist a propaganda machine? China is asshole, don’t do their work for them.

Too little, too late? Trump was attacked for doing it before there was “enough evidence” for it. Democrats were still actively encouraging people to go out to Chinese New Year celebrations.

did the video cover the part where china govt covered up the severity in wuhan and punished doctors that spoke out about it and told who there was no person to person transmission?

“Let’s see, a childish video that accurately portrays the official Trump Administration response to information it actually received from China and the WHO? Nope, no problem with it.

It feels like i’m taking crazy pills, especially on a liberal news site. And especially from a black man like CPM about the goddamn CCP. Just go on the theroot and look at the articles today.

China’s news sites and others can fire back as much as it wants and most people won’t have a problem if it is reported. But when a KNOWN propagnada machine of an AUTHORITARIAN government is given the limelight (and even in somewhat positive terms) in a supposed liberal news site, you don’t think that is an issue?

Fuck do I care what some authoritarian mouthpiece’s propaganda response to trump’s accusations? They both can get fucked. China for fudging its numbers and Trump for his very poor response and leadership.

The video is obviously one sided and revisionist on what China did. That said, it is possible to be critical of both Trump and of China.

Normally, I overwhelmingly agree with the writers of io9, but there are many more sites (even non state run chinese sites) that describe the U.S’s complete incompetence. Propping up a piece from a known propganada news channel of an authroitarian country that has shown its human rights violations en mass, not only…

Not only did it apply for foreign nationals it applied to US citizens who were screened and quarantined. So no.

A. Well argued

I guess that’s the nail on io9 coffin for me. That’s sad, actually, as I really enjoyed the site, on the good old Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders days (All of us old users are forevers orphans of that time). As a non’American user, I don’t really care with the editors and staff opinions on Trump or anything…

It comes from the ‘Anything that’s anti-Trump must ipso facto be good!’ section of the internet that lost it’s critical thinking skills a long time ago.

Hence you get people parroting CCP propaganda and telling you to just forget about all those indigenous people Nicholas Maduro shot.

CPM has published a lot of…

Yeah, not for nothing, but the Chinese Communist Party and its mouthpiece can get fucked in hell, and you shouldn’t be passing along their propaganda even labeled as such.

Trump’s response was utterly incompetent, and the blood of tens of thousands of Americans is on his hands. But it’s not as if that magically makes…