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[-] tal@lemmy.today 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Imagine the amount of cognitive dissonance you'd need to endure to think NK is not a dictatorship.

Setting aside dessalines' views on living in North Korea, probably goes the other way too, considering what Internet access is like in North Korea:

https://www.wired.com/story/internet-reality-north-korea/

https://archive.ph/lC0oi

“A librarian sits between two internet users and continuously monitors what people on both sides are searching up,” Kim said in testimony to the researchers. “Every five minutes, the screen freezes automatically, and the librarian must do a fingerprint authentication to allow further internet use.” A state security officer was also always nearby, they said.

People were allowed to use the internet for an hour, and if someone wanted more time, they would need to obtain new permission, Kim said. It took around two days to get permission from authorities to use the internet, a task requiring approvals from various officials. If someone applied too often, they would be made to wait, Kim said. “Every Korean website is blocked, and only Chinese or English websites are available.”

A few dozen families with connections to Kim Jong-Un and some foreigners have unrestricted access to the global internet, while a “few thousand” people—including government officials, researchers, and students studying IT—can access a surveillance-heavy version of it, according to the report and previous research. North Koreans like Kim who are allowed some foreign travel, usually for business, can sometimes access the global web while abroad.

North Korea probably considers Lemmy or anything like it to be a dire threat to state security, would never permit its people to see it or access information on it. Totally undermine state control of the information sphere.

[-] MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Isn't hexbear banned in China?

[-] goat@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

It is, yeah. I think lemmygrad is the same.

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