Because hosting shit yourself isn't free, and most people aren't up for taking financial losses for their projects.
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To be more specific, you can, it's just an esoteric piece of shit mechanism that's way more complicated than it needs to be.
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and the government would have to explain precisely why they decided to ban all Google services over a song about freedom.
They wouldn't explain shit. This is an authoritarian government we're talking about; they have near total control of what information gets to their populace.
More likely they'd just accuse Google of supporting terrorism, and make a show of raiding their offices and jailing their local executives.
I don’t think the people in charge would last long if that happened, considering how integral Google’s services are to many people’s lives.
This is China we're talking about. Chinese equivalents to nearly every big tech service are more than present and accounted for, even often preferred by the local populace. Hong Kong is a little different, but the CCP still exerts near total control there.
It is literally either follow this law or cease operations here. Both would end in the song being blocked anyway.
Mind you, I wish we were that level of strict when it came to our data privacy laws.
I dunno, why don't you ask, eg: Russia?
Because by law in certain countries, homosexuality is persona non grata, and a filter needs to be there to legally operate in such countries.
Until they make the wrong call and it bites them on the ass.
Yeah but they're called talent for a reason. The senior talent are generally better than the juniors at what they do.
I mean, yeah, but also “X” has no name recognition at all. As in, you don’t even recognize that it is a name.
And the truly sad part is, after all this time, this is still true.
Because Twitter as a brand had a godly status in terms of name recognition.
It's a bit more complicated than simply taking the worst experiences someone has ever had.
Every experience, every story from friends, every story in the news, heck even portrayals in fiction, contribute to someone's perception of an event, object, person or even group.
Now place yourself in the position of your average woman. You hear rape stories on the news, probably known a few people that have been SA'd if it hasn't happened to you personally, and you've almost certainly had a few close calls at least. Are you telling me you wouldn't have your guard up?
And how do they make their money?