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Monday, December 09, 2019 • By Anthony Ha

Happy Monday

China tries to insulate itself from non-Chinese technology, Snapchat adds a new feature that drops your face into videos and you’ll be able to order a Mac Pro very soon. Here’s your Daily Crunch for December 9, 2019.

China moves to ban foreign software and hardware from state offices

China has ordered the replacement of all foreign PC hardware and operating systems in state offices over the next three years, according to a report in the Financial Times. The government has previously ordered purges of western software, but they were more limited or related to certain security issues.

This time, the goal includes hardware as well, with tens of millions of devices targeted for replacement.

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In wake of Shutterstock's Chinese censorship, American companies need to relearn American values

By now, it's well-known that China's search engines like Baidu censor political photography. What we’ve been learning more recently, however, is that it isn't just Chinese companies that are aiding and abetting this censorship.

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