A Nigerian woman reviewed some tomato puree online. Now she faces jail
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But there's not much in the way of an authoritarian place producing a lot. The left doesn't bat an eye on how unionizing is illegal in China.
It is hard to say what counts as left in America. Apart from a few real old-timey nostalgists, I don't think that people look to China as providing a model these days. The heyday of the upper middle class Maoist was probably forty years ago.
Going by social media/academia/big tech I'd say they're making a comeback.
A big part of what is perceived as "backwards" are long term effects of British colonial rule, from which they are still recovering. There's a lot of ink spilt studying how the systems which colonial powers set up get left behind, which keeps in place a stratified society with the goal of enriching all the people in positions of power (read: corruption). That takes time to overcome. This is as true for Latin America as it is for Nigeria, India and all the rest.
It hasn't escaped my notice there's a lot of Nigerians in tech. (I work with a lot) I'm left with the impression that the language left behind (English) in former British colonies has given these nations an edge, because the de facto language of global business is English now. That's of course why there's so many Indians in tech as well. These nations see everyone trying to get as educated as possible, as quickly as possible to catch up with the highly industrialized West.
In a couple hundred years, Nigeria may look more like Wakanda, who knows?
This is very debatable. Ethiopia and Liberia were never colonized. So wasn't Japan.
Places where the institutions of colonization were toppled like Haiti did not fare well, neither did Nepal. This is a Marxist reading of History that imo is way too simple and results in a lot of inconsistencies, but it's in tune with feelings of justice (or revenge if you like Nietzsche).
That is a simplification that's often resting on emotional resentment to injustice but doesn't really define or predict how a country develops.
Marxist only in the sense that Marx observed that colonialism/imperialism is a part of the rise of capitalism.
Claiming something is "Marxist" because you disagree with it is itself:
> way too simple and results in a lot of inconsistencies
https://content.csbs.utah.edu/~ehrbar/valmat.pdf
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist_schools_of_thought
I said Marxist and not Realist because most people know about Marx and people confuse realism in political development with the common definition of realism.
>Claiming something is "Marxist" because you disagree with it
Strawmanning.
The various coups, civil wars, brutal dictatorships and/or hastily implemented radical ideologies aren't really helping former colonies either.
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It is just fascinating that this keeps happening. Does this happen far more often and not lead to a Streisand effect that it is on average worth doing?
She seemingly then followed it up with something like “It’s k**ing people” (sic) - and then she was arrested.
Still seems like a mass amount of overreach to call it a CyberCrime though.