• NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip
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    3 hours ago

    The whole reason China winning would be bad is because of their surveillance state ensuring no one gets around their curtailment of civil liberties…

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      59 minutes ago

      China has higher government approval rates than any western country. The whole “Chinese surveillance state” myth stems from western media propaganda. Go ask a Chinese person about the dreaded “social credit score” system and they literally don’t know what it is, it’s just western lies. The west has literal journalist prisoners like Assange, the UK is enjailing people for supporting Palestine, and heroes like Snowden had to migrate to other countries due to political persecution for revealing the depth of the western surveillance state. It’s all projection with China.

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        49 minutes ago

        You can see the surveillance and self censorship by spending any amount of time on a Chinese app like Red Note.

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          37 minutes ago

          Unlike western media, famously owned by altruistic people like sociopath Palantir collaborator Zuckerberg, or Twitter being owned by a literal sieg-heiling Nazi.

          You can see the censorship by opening Russia Today in the EU and seeing how all Russian media has been banned, such freedom of speech and anti censorship in the west, threatening to ban Tiktok because it’s not controlled by American corpos! Surely no censorship on Reddit either or YouTube!! It’s literally all projection

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        31 minutes ago

        i know real Chinese people who left china because of how bad it is there, not because of socialism, but because of the government surveillance and how they treat people.