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Insulating oneself from American internet platforms may be a lofty goal, unfortunately the Russian version of the internet isn't much better. China did a much better job and now they don't have vaccine deniers, they didn't suffer from people refusing to wear facemasks, and they aren't about to have a far right coup
Imagine thinking the Great Firewall of China is a good thing
It's great for the people that matter.
Imagine living in borderline fascist countries and believing that the fascist-free Chinese model is worse by any metric.
I assure you, the Chinese internet is not a picknick, it’s got plenty of its own wackos and weird shit going on. But the party is very quick to shut down stuff that it sees as a potential image problem, but they won’t do shit about a problem until it becomes a significant embracement.
So they actually tackle problematic issues instead of indiscriminate censorship, and that sounds like a worse alternative to you than "absolute freedom of speech in capitalist/Nazi-owned social networks"?
They take on issues that are problematic for the party’s image, if they’re not problematic for the party they let it thrive. Outside that narrow window, china’s internet is even more of a Skinner box, addiction suck, dystopian corporate hellscape than the English speaking internet.
Listen comrade, you know China isn't some dreamland full of happy wealthy people, it's got huge numbers of poor, starving people, young people stricken with cancer, disease, bulldozers, you name it. They're ran by an uncaring party, who are turning the screws on the population who are rebelling and dying.
I know you know. And now you know I know you know. Your little pink act is tired.
tbf if america had 3x the people it'd far worse than china.
Chinese support for their government is astronomically higher than in any western country
You have been lied to.
Yea that tends to happen in places where you get disappeared if you actually share any discontent.
Their grip is so embedded that they intimidate Chinese dispora in other countries, and on that basis, what would have to gain by being honest about what dislike about the government and have only hardship if you confront them.
Would refusing to wear face masks decrease their social score?
They literally steel reinforced the doors to prevent people leaving their apartments in China, I think they took it seriously enough.
Everything can be true when you make shit up! :)
Which part of their question was made up?
The entirety of it, the "social credit score" thing is a far-right conspiracy theory promoted by Zionist media like the BBC.