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Thanks for the pointer. And it makes it doubly confusing. Doesn't a reference to an obsolete, pre-modern language tarnish the reputation of Rust? Doesn't the creator of this project fear lawsuits from the legal team at The Basic Foundation?

A few years ago there was a case in China. Someone forged documents in the name of a mayor, using a seal with the mayor's name on it. The authorities later found it fake because the mayor used a different seal design. (Just a random detail in a complicated lawsuit.)

It would have been difficult if nobody else had seen his real seal though.

Programming is not for everyone. Teaching programming is no easy task either. In the end, one of them, even if only one, got a real software job. This is enough to say this program is not a failure.

This is not new. Things have been like this (but less systemic and organized) for the Uighurs/Uyghurs for decades. The world collectively shrugs. Because, to be honest, the West is the only part of the world where politicians nominally cares about human rights. In other parts of the world, including China and Muslim-majority countries, politicians don't even pretend they care.

And when the concept of human rights is applied to real people, some seem to be more deserving than others. Muslims are certainly not the tribe Western politicians most identify with.

As Mona Eltahawy wrote back in 2009 -- 10 years ago: If Only the Uighurs Were Buddhist and China Was Israel.

link: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/if-only-the-uighurs-were_b_22...

One solution, beside bashing China, is to vote for a liberal agenda that would give more funding to universities. Guggenheim and other art institutions took money from the Sacklers, who started the opioid crisis. Because they need money. And universities need money. They have to get money one way or another.

No. I'm not here to argue with anybody. I don't intend to change anyone's standing point. I realized long ago that online argument is more about sending pheromones so that the like-minded will come to you.

No worries. It's true being a US citizen carries certain guarantee of basic rights that a citizenship of any other country does not.

You wouldn't believe. Sweden is really a high-trust society. You can look up any person in the country online, etc, etc.

I hate the Chinese regime more than you do. The problem here is by exaggerating Chinese power, right-wing rhetoric in the West is singing a war song against China, which usually carries a racist undertone. And the dictator in China would stupidly believe China is indeed powerful. That's how the trade war between Xi and Trump started.