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Censorship 😡
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Crazy thought: What if both platforms are bad?
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.
Commie
Thanks, comrade!
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.
I took it as "don't pretend we don't have censorship too"
Saying "there is censorship here" in no way implies "there is not censorship there"
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"
I mean it is funny, but there's a chasm between government censorship and whatever xitter is doing.
I don't get it?
Ok. So the censorship of RedNote is mandated by the CCP in order for them to persist. Shitter is doing what they are by their own choice.
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
It's possible for platforms under the influence of the Chinese government and right wing American billionaires to both have harmful censorship.
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.
Here's a crazy thought: maybe all genocides are bad.
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.
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