The most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China.

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Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping.

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Simple solution is to block lemmygrad and hexbear in your app. That cuts down quite a few tankies and mainlaind Taiwan shills.

Imagine being in Taiwan and having full access to information about China and the west and still shilling for China. Those types of people should be looking for a dominatrix, not a political philosophy...

I think they might be using "mainland Taiwan" as a way of saying China - Taiwan is an island which China thinks is "theirs" for some reason.

"Yes, but history..." they will say.

And in history China used to be the opium export market of the Brits so by historic rules it has to be that again. I guess they'll say "but that's different".

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There's a bunch of Taiwanese people who would welcome Chinese rule. I don't know why.. The CPC sucks my balls

Imagine being in Taiwan and having full access to information about China and the west and still shilling for China. Those types of people should be looking for a dominatrix, not a political philosophy…

That's kind of the history of humanity regarding religion. To some degree when the religious prophets were alive it make sense, but hundreds of years later it's a story book (or oral tradition) and people still strive for the authority.

We haven't really had that many teachers like Carl Sagan who describe the history and our favoring of authority - inability to question them. It's pretty weird, as they often aren't attractive or good speakers, but you see people just accept almost anything they say. I mean in the USA I witnessed so many people who would trust Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones kind of blindly, and there is some mechanism at play that humanity in total seems to keep engaging.

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Been using lemmy for a few days and I am already feeling the need to do just that.

How so? I've been using since the API blackout and not seen any content from either instance.

mainland Taiwan

You must mean West Taiwan. Sadly they refuse to acknowledge the authority of Taiwans government.

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