Gommunism bad, must guild, if they only had freedom like the United States then they wouldn't have to lie about the Chinavirus and we would all have been saved.

President Xi, we're ready for the nukes now.

  • thefunkycomitatus [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    In the early hours of Feb. 7, China’s powerful internet censors experienced an unfamiliar and deeply unsettling sensation. They felt they were losing control.

    Feb 7 was the exact day Woodward recorded Trump saying the virus was worse than the flu and very dangerous. Tapes that wouldn't be released for months. Not released, not in a book, not leaked, nothing until the end of the summer. This is while the NYT, which propublica cites, was scolding China over valuing secrecy over safety.

    according to confidential directives sent to local propaganda workers and news outlets.

    Which the US has too. Our confidential directives and propaganda workers are privatized.

    They ordered news websites not to issue push notifications alerting readers to his death. They told social platforms to gradually remove his name from trending topics pages.

    How many times has Facebook, twitter, or reddit manipulated shit to remove certain narratives? It happens all the time.

    They lay bare in extraordinary detail the systems that helped the Chinese authorities shape online opinion during the pandemic.

    While the entire US media helped Trump's admin shape opinion as well.

    At a time when digital media is deepening social divides in Western democracies,

    Yeah why is that?

    I could itemize the whole shitty article but it's just so fucking exhausting. It's one thing to report China bad. I don't even care about that. It's that they report it with such urgency, as if there is a crisis happening. They also report on it so sanctimoniously as if the sole purpose of Western media isn't to be privatized propaganda. The US media helped sell wars, genocides, atrocities on a level that makes this shit look quaint. China asking state media not to report on corona like a world-ending event and not to make the party look bad is nothing compared to something like making everyone think there's weapons of mass destruction. Giving platforms to war mongers like McCain and then lionizing them when they die. The US media is so fucking entrenched in intelligence and the deep state it's not even funny. But because they're private companies, it's actually free press.

    These people have facilitated murder on an industrial and global scale for decades yet the only thing Western journalists do is report breathless sensationalism to drum up support for more murder. The same fucks who love this shit being out there also kill journalists. We have it on video. They will fucking drop a bomb on you when you go cover the next war you dipshits. They'll mag dump on your crew because you were carrying a tripod. They'll let Saudi Arabia slice you up. But goddamn you still go do the footwork of imperialism.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      China was the one arresting Florida scientists for reporting Covid numbers, get with the program

  • determinism [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I just spent the last half hour looking at ProPublica's board after seeing that article.

    ba ba ba, baba ba RAND

  • Madcat [any]
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    4 years ago

    Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/kjuxov/leaked_documents_show_how_chinas_army_of_paid/

    I wonder how these people argue in real life. Do they just call them a robot?

  • anthm17 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Instead the US allows astroturfed right wing protests and propaganda networks to spread justification for killing hundreds of thousands.

    Plus when the guy in charge takes it upon himself to lie about masks he never to has face the consequences of that decision.

    To be clear I mean Fauci.

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Helped Censor the Coronavirus

    Damn, now even I'm reassessing my support of China. I can't believe they're taking free speech away from an innocent virus.

  • Poop [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    How's the weather in Moscow, Vlad? You russian bot! Beijing, Li? You chinese bot!