Meanwhile in the US we also have a long history of monitoring internet traffic, installing backdoors and allowing private third-parties to filter what we see online.
Where do we get off critiquing the PRC? We should clean our own house first.
Where do we get off critiquing the PRC? We should clean our own house first.
-follower of different religion
-saying the word "democracy"
-critisizing a politician/the government
so yes, first things first.
> According to multiple reports and leaks, death-by-metadata could be triggered, without even knowing the target’s name, if too many derogatory checks appear on their profile.
> “Armed military aged males” exhibiting suspicious behavior in the wrong place can become targets, as can someone “seen to be giving out orders.” Such mathematics-based assassinations have come to be known as “signature strikes.”
Source: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-...
You can walk around China an say "democracy" all day. You think they don't report on eg elections in the US on TV there? People in China complain about the government and laws all day.
There is a lot wrong with China that they deserve to be called out for, but what's your goal with a post like that? Show the world that you don't have a clue about anything besides tech? It boggles my mind how many people happily buy any FUD that helps them painting a simple black and white image of the world just so they can feel good about their own country.
It is unfortunate that there is a lot of misinformation about China out there. Winnie the Pooh isn't banned. The social credit system apparently isn't like how it's commonly reported in the West. But I also chafe at the suggestion that China is little worse than the US on these points. There are few countries on earth that have more control over their population and shape the way they think than China.
https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/09/09/eradicating-ideologica...
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit: specifically:
> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
China is not going to export their political system beyond the HK and Taiwan, unlike the US.
> the country intervening in most foreign elections is the United States with 81 interventions, from 1946 to 2000
It's a case of which is the lesser evil. US's style of "imposing" democracy (and toppling it and replacing the government with puppets when it become socialist and/or unfavorable for US corporations) or Chinese totalitarianism.
Unlike the USA? So if China came along bombing the shit out of mexico, you'd expect the US to sit on their hands?
> They've also annexed Tibet
Annexed is hardly the right word. Tibet was part of China for centuries, they regained power after a brief period of independence. It's well within reasonable to disapprove of that, but putting it like China just conquered that totally different country that it had no relations with before is just wrong.
Same with Taiwan. To China it's a province where the government has been taken over by separatists, so why should they just give it up? Western media conveniently never mentions this so again in the minds of people Taiwan is just this country that has existed forever and is now attacked by the evil Chinese. Just pull up a list of countries which do and don't regard Taiwan as its own sovereign country and not part of China.