Comment by FMT99@lemmy.world on Censorship 😡

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”

“the government decides what is thoughtcrime”

the owner class decides and they control both the corporation and the state.

You find this arrangement superior to Chinaman daddy model… which is fine, that is your opinion. But at the end of day, there is no much difference beyond who gets oppressed and for what reason.

You are appear to accept economic oppression as preferable because chinaman bad.

I think I’m about done here. This is why no one likes spaces like Lemmy. The absolutely condescending “Unlike you I understand the world, but you’re entitled to your worthless little opinion of course”. Holy hell. Not to mention the repeated casual racism which I’m guessing you’re trying to project on me? Try to do better dude.

When all of the companies do it and they do as they are told by daddy Sam… What is the difference.

The only difference I see is that they don’t send you to gulag in US unless you really make some dear leader life uncomfortable.

Americans still do a lot of self censorship. Anything Israel related gets modded into shot on normie socials.

Luigi is prolly best example… They are suppressing that across all media, fake news and social… How is this different from shepoohs bullshit?

I’m not defending the bad things our government does. But do we see mass arrests of people wearing Luigi shirts? Will you be denied a passport as a result of posting some critical message on social media? I had friends, very average unimportant people, who were detained for days at a Chinese airport for having a social media history showing support for Taiwan. It’s not the same thing.

We have several prisoners at Guantanamo with absolutely no tangible connection to terrorist organizations. They have been there for 20 years in some cases and have no release or court date scheduled.

Again I’m not trying to defend that bad things our governments do. And Guantanamo is an especially egregious example, I agree. But Guantanamo is something exceptional, not the norm. How many inmates does Guantanamo have? You can look it up, it’s public information. You can protest it, you can vote for politicians that agree it should be closed. And yes it’s not as easy as that but it can be done.

But now try to stage a public protest against the treatments of Uygurs in Beijing. Try to get details about the people imprisoned there or the conditions they live under. Hell try to find out what happened to your disappeared relatives.

The difference is one is at least paying lip service to ideas like rule of law and democracy, even though at times it breaks its own rules. The other says rule of law is irrelevant.

But Guantanamo is something exceptional, not the norm.

orly?

Is that why US either highest or second highest prison population?

You have been providing very naive, regime sanctioned talking points. You don’t do any critical analysis of the conditions imposed.

Nobody disputing that US provides limited freedom of assembly. But it does not make US some how superior when they are still oppressing the population. You don’t appear to recognize the economic oppression being “as bad” as whatever shepooh does to his property?

Is economic oppression and bureaucratic murder of the population supposed to be some how morally superior?

It’s very hard to stay interested in discussion here. It’s just one hyperbole after the other, not to mention folks constantly shoving talking points in your face as if you said them and then arguing against them so they can feel that they won the argument. And all that peppered with this condescending tone. Well fine, you won buddy, congratulations.

Us has largest prison population in the world?

Capitalist regimes targets people differently but the function of the oppression is the same.

Yeah oppression is universal to some extent. But there’s a big difference between a government that says “everyone is equal before the law” but which sometimes breaks those rules and a country that says “the law is what we say it is”

Which one functions better as a whole, given our current social problems, I don’t know. But from a personal point of view I’m very happy to live and have grown up somewhere relatively free.

But from a personal point of view I’m very happy to live and have grown up somewhere relatively free.

Everyone says this until their targeted…

This is essentially the logic first they came for the communists… I was not a communist…

The modern regime know not to push it too far, generally that’s just bad business but they always need some marginalized group to oppress for the performative purposes to remind the plebs who got the monopoly on violence. And gen pop accepts it as “ohh well, they do it to black people etc, at least it won’t me, carry one”

At the core us and Chinese pedons behave the same with the same excuses for why their daddy is good, other daddy is bad.

If you oversimplify to the degree that “all governments use oppressive tactics some times” then yeah you’re right. Obviously. But how many communists is the US holding in reeducation camps at the moment? How many cartoon characters are banned because they look like the president?

And again I understand our current trajectory doesn’t look great, I understand our governments can also use oppressive tactics at times. But to say CCP and the US government are identical is just blatantly disingenuous.

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