Chapotraphouse

Where China's limited experiments have been explicit about scoring criteria, Western systems hide their decision-making processes entirely. Even China's fragmented approach offers more visibility into how behavioral data gets used than our black box algorithms do.

This is true of so many things (especially propaganda itself) about the West vs its Enemies. Honesty is portrayed as heavy-handedness and Western deception is portrayed as being laissez-faire or non-existent. The enemy has over-the-top propaganda and criminalizes dissent. But the US simply drowns out independent media, shuts down or de-prioritizes social media accounts (on platforms it controls!), and criminalizes a hundred things synonymous with dissent.