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The real source of the problem is political, meaning how people perceive tech in modern days.

This depends very much on whether the local facebook censorship/real names policy makes it hard to post political content.

It's unfortunate that most will discount this article prima facie given the current political and societal winds.

Who cares about wearing nailpolish when you'll be ostracized for having political opinions which anywhere else would be perfectly mainstream?

But if you don't support the public schools otherwise (e.g., through taxes and political support), you are sacrificing your kids.

Had Google been less political and more open to working with the Chinese they could have been a force there.

It's interesting how it's impossible to choose language without also choosing political sides.

Perhaps slightly ironic in this case, but one big reason for a company to have an office in another country is for political influence.

Please don't make throwaway accounts to conduct political flamewars on HN.

FB could have worked with them, had it been less political.

There were several 'phases' of political change that he defines.

There is however no political will to pursue this.

Side Note: While people like to say "Socialism == Communism", Marx viewed them as separate and distinct 'stages' of political/economic development.

This is less than 1/7 the area of corn harvested in the United States in 2000.[11]" A federal scale project with political, social and economical effects comparable with atomic bomb development.

And my guess is: the local newspapers are a worse political target than evil large western company they can blame all their ills on:) "Targeting the companies indexing the information is probably a more tractable problem then tracking down and eliminating all the sources." I don't buy this.

"hoping that you'll make enough money to change the laws" I think what you mean to say perhaps was " raise enough money to change the laws by hiring lawyers and political operatives that know how to work the system ".