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But he wasn’t banned. even had 120,000 likes.
In Rednote, Could try to support 李文亮，阮晓寰，彭立发，魏京生，刘晓波，王志安，赵紫阳，胡耀邦，陆以恒，郝海东 etc look what happened.
Even support to Ukraine and use Flag of Ukraine.
Their CEO just violated their own TOS because he’s a butt hurt little baby about people finding out he only tells lies.
There is nothing in China that will ever harm you as much as the American Government does. Ever.
But keep giving your info to the NSA, I’m sure they’re good people with good intentions. Surely.
Well, that’s how “biased free speech” works.
I mean it is funny, but there’s a chasm between government censorship and whatever xitter is doing.
Elaborate :D compare and contrast in detail not the classic Ccp shill logical fallacies. This is Lemmy. Little less retarded than the internet peeps you Chinese shits are use to
Consequences of a social network being authoritarian are limited to the platform and, therefore, not a big deal. Whatever effects it has, leaving is simple. Authoritarian government regulates all public spaces. The consequences are life ending, and leaving (emigrating) is often one of the most difficult journeys a person will take on.
The insults are not required. Whatever creed you think you’re defending, not a good look sweetie.
Lol ok pansy ;) pro tip: why does the gov require vaccinations? Get back to me when you’re less… Butt hurt
That’s not a tip, love. That’s a leading question. Making a 100 bait comments an hour is easier than constructing one coherent one, I’d still recommend the latter. More satisfying 😛
that pic of the woman saying Dumb NWORD , followed up by a rebuttal Dumb Cracker (the latter was taken down by admins) tells you all you need to know about elon musk
-10000000 social credit score
There has been a widespread misconception that China operates a nationwide and unitary social credit “score” based on individuals’ behavior, leading to punishments if the score is too low. Media reports in the West have sometimes exaggerated or inaccurately described this concept.
Media reports in the West have sometimes exaggerated or inaccurately described this concept.
But the concept exists, nonetheless.
The idea that the tech and surveillance obsessed Chinese government isn’t keeping tags on its citizens, to at least the same degree western countries are keeping tags on theirs is patently absurd, and all you’re doing by pretending otherwise is licking the left boot instead of the right,.
I would never claim that China is performing less surveillance of its citizens. They definitely are a world leader in this, in a very bad way.
However, mindless commenters spamming social credit demerits on any post that mentions China only serve to feed the exaggerations and inaccuracies.
This is a really good comment I wish I could pin it somewhere where more people would see it.
Crazy thought: What if both platforms are bad?
The fucking side picking on this, and the principles so called progressives and even leftist (being openly welcomed to the tankie side, I guess) are willing to throw out the window just to defend an openly oppressive and abusive state simply because it is “anti-American”, as if both aren’t pulling the same shit in slightly different variations, is doing my fucking head in.
What will it take for people to realise all states exist to oppress and control the working class for the benefit of the ruling one, no matter who it theoretically opposes? (not a social media fad, that’s for fucking sure)
Surely staying isolated from the Chinese populous will help us achieve internationalism.
Man on floating whale corpse: “Your boat stinks!”
Man on burning garbage scow: “What?”
At least the whale is biodegradable!
If you cannot host it, you cannot own it. If you cannot own it, it’s not resistant to censorship.
Well clearly Elon has demonstrated that ownership does not resist one’s own censorship either… Almost like we need something that nobody fully owns…
Or that everybody owns. The means of information distribution and the means of production should be completely in the hands of the people.
Yes, that’s exactly what I meant. If everybody “owns” it, then nobody fully “owns” it.
Commie
Thanks, comrade!
And this here is the exact reason im on lemmy.
Don’t pretend we’re free to post literally anythere here, either. There’s rules.
different instances have different rules,there are instances that are more homophobic and others that are more lgbtq. instances can choose to federate or not with other instances, however those instances that most disagree with will still exist.
Its kind of a choose which rules you want. You have to agree with the hivemind but you can choose which one. At least this exposes the communities to each other to mix ideas. While i hate .ml they do have some stuff that is good.
Lemmy.ml: Comment removed for rule 1. Banned from all communities.
I knew someone would mention it but on lemmy if youre banned from one instance you can just use the other 200 instances
Aye of course, just poking fun that it’s not always free from the same bullshit here too!
Yes imperialism is violent and hypocritical. Kinda 101. Strange to see so many apologists for this kind of censorship on Lemmy. Lib brainwashing plus state religion.
Sorry can you elaborate? Are you saying this post is apologetic of the Chinese platform’s censorship? I took it to be critical of both.
Westerners acting like they give a shit about the Uyghurs while they spent the last 20+ years bombing the ME and supporting a genocide against the Palestinians is just the tip of their hypocrisy.
I’m not American, but I am very much a Westerner.
I can protest my government’s shitty politics. I can vote in politicians that amplify the message. I can donate to politicians in other jurisdictions than mine that have good politics. MPs and MEPs that represent me and people who think like me have taken brave stances, have thrown wrenches, have done what they could. One day, just like we stopped South African Apartheid, we WILL stop Israeli Apartheid, and you can shove your cynicism up yours.
Are Chinese citizens allowed to do ANY of that?
You know this guy is gonna say they are allowed to, and choose not to because they love their government sooo much. Kind of like how the people of Germany loved Hitler so much that 99.3% of them voted for him in his last election.
Here’s a crazy thought: maybe all genocides are bad.
I bet you scream all lives matter at blm protestors.
“He started a sentence with ‘all’!”
All genocides are bad
“Wow you must be some sort of racist”
???
All lives matter.
All dogs go to heaven
so what flavor was the koolaide?
cherry is my favorite.
Never knew denying reality was cherry flavoured.
In college I had to present my research on the Uighur genocide to an audience of around 1000 students for a cultural festival. I pointed out the camps, the way the government rounded up the citizens, the forced labor, the organ harvesting, the sexual exploitation, human trafficking, etc.
backstage, I had five Chinese exchange students badgering me for two hours after the event. they were claiming the Uighurs were vile evil people who stabbed and raped everyday Chinese citizens and that the government was trying to help them become better Chinese.
I caught on pretty quickly that they were trying to confuse me and brainwash me into believing their lies. eventually I relented and pretended to accept their truth.
about a month later one of the five saw me and apologized. they said they had to go along with the others to prove their dedication to the Chinese government otherwise it’s likely one of the other four would report it and their family back in China would be imprisoned. they went further to say just by being in America that they would likely be sent to prison for a year for “reeducation” after they go back to China. this was to ensure that no students would come back to spread western ideals.
I thanked them for their bravery for telling me and wished them good fortune in their life. after that, we pretended to not know each other because we both knew the ramifications of even a hint of kinship.
so yes, I know alot about denying reality.
do you?
Aren’t you the guy i explained to that racists refer to the Chinese as yellow?
ok, but are the Chinese colored skin?
that’s what I’m confused about.
you’re correct, and thanks for pointing out that the original comment was a racist joke.
if I had called it racist outright I would have had my comments deleted.
you were so useful, thank you.
All that research and you still don’t even know how to spell a lot correctly.
sick burn!
is that all you’ve got?
if so, how disappointing. That’s what I get for expecting great retorts from new troll alts.
Troll account whines about troll account
but I’m not a troll account. this is my account, my one and only account.
no bots, no AI, nothing but my fingers and mild annoyance.
I would be really interested in seeing this research you are talking about and anything to corroborate your personal anecdote.
It’s funny you mention that. those five Chinese students said the exact same thing!
They weren’t really interested in the research though because they only wanted to use it as further evidence that my research was wrong because I wasn’t from China and they were. I know this because that’s one of the points they were desperately trying to hammer home. I think it was something along the lines of,
You can’t know how bad the Uighurs are because you never lived around them. they’re filthy despicable people who only commit crimes because they wanted to. You should visit China and live there to really understand how bad they are.
I know as soon as I step foot in China, even to this day, I would be taken and never seen again. not just from this one instance, but from a lifetime of calling out the Xi regime and the corruption in China.
also, what kind of fool do you take me for? I have nothing to prove to anyone on the internet.
take my anecdote how you will, but we both know you wouldn’t change your mind regardless.
You’re making a lot of assumptions about me, all I asked for is evidence to back your claims. I don’t know shit about China. Your story just reads to me like a “and then everybody clapped” kind of situation where we write off the chinese as racist and unwilling to fight their oppressors because of how racist they are, and terminate all further thought because we read a compelling story about some guy that did a college report one time and was approached by five mainland chinese that just happened to all be in the same class with him and have all this secret knowledge that nobody is allowed to talk about even though its true and everybody knows it’s happening and everybody agrees with it.
let’s break down your comment.
you claim that you want knowledge about China. then you claim my anecdote is unbelievable. you even mock me by belittling my anecdote, reducing it to a meme. then you accuse me of portraying the Chinese students as racists.
then you go on a 67 word rant desperately trying to discredit my anecdote.
50% of your comment is a rant. Half of it!
Now, if all you wanted was to educate yourself on China, why on earth did you spend half your time trying to discredit me. smells like bullshit…like you’re afraid of something. what could you be afraid of?
well in any case, If all you wanted was to learn about China, you have the largest collection of knowledge in history at your disposal. but since you can’t be bothered, I’ll spoon feed you some sources that are far more recent than any of the research I did.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-22278037
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/31/1001936433/who-the-uyghurs-are-and-why-china-is-targeting-them
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/china-xinjiang-uyghurs-muslims-repression-genocide-human-rights
good luck on your journey, I hope you find the courage to stop being afraid.
You do understand that daddy sam being evil empire doesn’t excuse chinaman from being an oppressive regime?
You understand that your bully acting like they care about how another bully treats their victims might be… perturbing though right?
Like obviously neither bully is justified. But the hypocrisy of it all might feel like rubbing salt in the wound.
Even more so when that wound is actually your dead friends and family… from all the bombs…
Has Lemmy just been completely flooded with CCP apologists now?
RedNote ToS includes provisions that require you to post “correct views on history, nationality, state, or culture”.
I guess if you believe Taiwan should be “returned” to the mainland, Uhghurs deserve to be “re-educated” and enslaved, and that China is the natural and rightful pre-eminant global power… you’re gonna be fine.
Lmao yes, have you not been spending much time on here? The second biggest instance is run by tankies
Let’s just say I roll with the stricter, more traditional definition of “tankie” not the current definition which is much closer to “people I disagree with”
Yes, I’ll take my downvote now sir.
Then you can go and browse through it and see how their moderators and admins ban and censor people who call out their genocide denial. I’m aware of the euphemism treadmill but I really do mean what I say.
What about your genocide denial?
I’m of the firm belief that everyone denies genocide, they are just selective about which ones they choose to deny and which ones they choose to be Very Very Upset about online.
RedNote ToS includes provisions that require you to post “correct views on history, nationality, state, or culture”.
Damn that private company implementing Terms of Service to limit discourse to historically accurate topics of conversation. Now I’ll never get Wuhan Lableak blurbs and weird religious propaganda injected into my video feed.
I guess if you believe Taiwan should be “returned” to the mainland, Uhghurs deserve to be “re-educated” and enslaved, and that China is the natural and rightful pre-eminant global power…
I mean, what gives the US the right to encircle Taiwan with its Navy? Why were we so fervent in defending the right of Afghani teenager girls to obtain an education, but so cavalier in denying it to Uighur girls threatened by the same Islamic radicalism just on the other side of the Afghan/China border? How do we have US Senators and CENTCOM chiefs debating the best method for severing Chinese exports from the international markets, while asserting the threat of Chinese global supremacy?
It’s all upsidedown and backwards in America-World. If you want to talk about Chinese global hegemony, consider the methods at their disposal. To quote Dr Lubinda Haabazoka, Director of the University of Zambia Graduate School of Business and former President of the Economics Association of Zambia
Every time China visits we get a hospital, every time Britain visits we get a lecture.
It’s “correct views on history, nationality, state, or culture” as according to the CCP. Imagine an American company with that clause, but those “correct views” were as according to the US government. You would be against that, yeah? Imagine getting your comment removed because you question the US’s authority
You’re just describing Reddit.
Yeah I love how reddit banned /r/Sino
Oh wait, they didn’t. They actually allow their users to criticize their government
I’m curious what that has to do with kowtowing to the US government. I think I provided a pretty good example of proof that Reddit doesn’t moderate based on what their government says is true
I think I provided a pretty good example of proof
:-/
Found the China zealot. Do you get paid or is this just for the love of the party?
I stack my Renminbi in one closet and my SorosBux in another.
But what do you do with the ZuckBucks?
I keep them in my back pocke… glances down at non-existent legs OH NO!
RedNote ToS includes provisions that require you to post "correct views on history, nationality, state, or culture
Tankies got all their canned responses with links to do their every chance they get. I wonder if there is a central repository for this
I wonder if there is a central repository for this
Perhaps in a little red book.
I think they just post the same stuff over and over. It’s like quoting Bible verses - they’re trying to prove it to themselves.
Mostly no (I hope), we’re just laughing at americans literally not being able to read anything soaked with propaganda and switching from one source to another.
Ccp apologists can suck Winnies dick
we’re just laughing at americans literally not being able to read anything soaked with propaganda
All Americans? Everything they read?
Pretty sure Lemmy has always been full of people who support freedom of speech, open internet, internationalism, anti-censorship, etc.
It’s got nothing to do with “apologizing” for some state targeted by this wacko genocidal empire.
Um, whut?
Lmao Lemmy was founded by the .mls, this dude has no idea what he’s talking about
Yes, been that way from the start and is made by them.
brought to you by the same users that made:
- you’re a Nazi because you don’t support Palestine
- Harris is evil, vote 3rd party
- I’d rather vote for Jill Stein than vote for Trump
- Harris is just as bad as Trump
- If you support Harris you want to kill Palestinian babies you Nazi
- Democrats and Republicans are the same
- If China is bad, America is worse
- American censorship is worse than Chinese censorship
- TikTok was banned because it was a threat to the American surveillance state
you’re a Nazi because you don’t support Palestine
Legit. Supporting genocide kinda invalidates your other points.
Okay, but if you recognize genocide in Palestine, that’s just a vote for Donald Trump who is a Nazi.
That means recognizing genocide makes you a Nazi. Only by ignoring genocide, shutting up about 3rd parties, admitting China is worse, venerating Democrats as the only good party worthy of your vote, and apologizing for any kind of environmentalism that might cost us the election can you truly stand up for the people of Palestine.
And since Harris didn’t win, we know you broke these rules. The only reason you’d do that is if you secretly conspired to hand Donald Trump the election, because you’re a Nazi.
Legit. Supporting genocide kinda invalidates your other points.
Let’s flip that around. If you support genocide right here at home because you were concerned about genocide abroad, that kinda invalidates your other points.
I dunno maybe some folks can’t have more than one thought in their head at a time.
I think a real genocide, which has been called out by the International Criminal Court, trumps your imaginary, fantasy genocide.
Comparing whatever it is they think Trump will do to trans people, to the near complete annihilation of a nation while killing 100 plus thousand people on live stream, is a wild thing to do. Bananas.
Incredibly, two bad things can exist at the same time. They don’t have to be equally bad for you to be concerned about both.
Oh look! A genocide pissing contest!
Which you started
Not really.
I took it as “don’t pretend we don’t have censorship too”
It’s false equivalence though, although with the election of shadow president Musk it’s getting a bit more hazy.
Even so, one is an (admittedly hugely influential) private company and the other is the actual single-party government dictating what speech is allowed.
one is an (admittedly hugely influential) private company and the other is the actual single-party government
The US has been governed by public-private partnerships for centuries. Trying to draw a line between the industry administrators that get promoted into every crevice of public sector bureaucracy and the elected politicians who depart office to serve as lobbyists and board members of private firms is a fool’s errand.
Do we celebrate Chris Dodd the Senator and denounce Chris Dodd the chairman of and chief lobbyist for the MPAA? Do we applaud Hank Paulson the Treasury Secretary and denounce Hank Paulson the CEO of Goldman Sachs?
Americans seem to have no trouble drawing a straight line between Singapore-incorporated ByteDance and the Chinese Communist Party. Why can’t they see the connection between Howard Lutnick or Linda McMahon or Betsy DeVos or Elaine Chao and the businesses they own and operate?
Hey you’ll get no argument from me. I’m on Lemmy for a reason. But it’s still not the same as just straight up “the government decides what is thoughtcrime”
When all of the companies do it and they do as they are told by daddy Sam… What is the difference.
The only difference I see is that they don’t send you to gulag in US unless you really make some dear leader life uncomfortable.
Americans still do a lot of self censorship. Anything Israel related gets modded into shot on normie socials.
Luigi is prolly best example… They are suppressing that across all media, fake news and social… How is this different from shepoohs bullshit?
I’m not defending the bad things our government does. But do we see mass arrests of people wearing Luigi shirts? Will you be denied a passport as a result of posting some critical message on social media? I had friends, very average unimportant people, who were detained for days at a Chinese airport for having a social media history showing support for Taiwan. It’s not the same thing.
We have several prisoners at Guantanamo with absolutely no tangible connection to terrorist organizations. They have been there for 20 years in some cases and have no release or court date scheduled.
Again I’m not trying to defend that bad things our governments do. And Guantanamo is an especially egregious example, I agree. But Guantanamo is something exceptional, not the norm. How many inmates does Guantanamo have? You can look it up, it’s public information. You can protest it, you can vote for politicians that agree it should be closed. And yes it’s not as easy as that but it can be done.
But now try to stage a public protest against the treatments of Uygurs in Beijing. Try to get details about the people imprisoned there or the conditions they live under. Hell try to find out what happened to your disappeared relatives.
The difference is one is at least paying lip service to ideas like rule of law and democracy, even though at times it breaks its own rules. The other says rule of law is irrelevant.
Us has largest prison population in the world?
Capitalist regimes targets people differently but the function of the oppression is the same.
Yeah oppression is universal to some extent. But there’s a big difference between a government that says “everyone is equal before the law” but which sometimes breaks those rules and a country that says “the law is what we say it is”
Which one functions better as a whole, given our current social problems, I don’t know. But from a personal point of view I’m very happy to live and have grown up somewhere relatively free.
But from a personal point of view I’m very happy to live and have grown up somewhere relatively free.
Everyone says this until their targeted…
This is essentially the logic first they came for the communists… I was not a communist…
The modern regime know not to push it too far, generally that’s just bad business but they always need some marginalized group to oppress for the performative purposes to remind the plebs who got the monopoly on violence. And gen pop accepts it as “ohh well, they do it to black people etc, at least it won’t me, carry one”
At the core us and Chinese pedons behave the same with the same excuses for why their daddy is good, other daddy is bad.
Saying “there is censorship here” in no way implies “there is not censorship there”
I mean you should do it but not out of spite, or to be hurtful, but to give people the freedom to choose.
And to do that, they need to know what their government was up to.
Should we be making a large effort to spread the word of better options to people? I feel like the discoverability of social networks (like this one) has gone way down, and a lot of people would like somewhere to doomscroll that isn’t shit, but just aren’t aware of other places/apps.
Certainly may not help that setting up LemmyWorld on my phone involved a pinned website app, something I’m guessing a lot of people haven’t done before.
Yeah, but Rednote censorship is bad because communism whilst Twitter’s censorship is fine because it’s the 100% Capitalist Free Market situation of a billionaire buying (using, amongst others, money from a Petro State) a privatelly owned forum for exchange of ideas and then shutting down any ideas he doesn’t like.
/s
Yeah, their censorship is cruel and tragic.
But our censorship is cheeky and fun.
/s because unfortunately it’s necessary
Chinese shenanigans
