Crazy thought: What if both platforms are bad?
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2025
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If you cannot host it, you cannot own it. If you cannot own it, it's not resistant to censorship.
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Man on floating whale corpse: "Your boat stinks!"
Man on burning garbage scow: "What?"
At least the whale is biodegradable!
On a long enough timeline, almost everything is biodegradable ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
Just need....like, 27 or 30 million years. Shod be fine.
The fucking side picking on this, and the principles so called progressives and even leftist (being openly welcomed to the tankie side, I guess) are willing to throw out the window just to defend an openly oppressive and abusive state simply because it is "anti-American", as if both aren't pulling the same shit in slightly different variations, is doing my fucking head in.
What will it take for people to realise all states exist to oppress and control the working class for the benefit of the ruling one, no matter who it theoretically opposes? (not a social media fad, that's for fucking sure)
Surely staying isolated from the Chinese populous will help us achieve internationalism.
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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
I mean it is funny, but there's a chasm between government censorship and whatever xitter is doing.
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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"
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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?
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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?
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brought to you by the same users that made:
- you're a Nazi because you don't support Palestine
- Harris is evil, vote 3rd party
- I'd rather vote for Jill Stein than vote for Trump
- Harris is just as bad as Trump
- If you support Harris you want to kill Palestinian babies you Nazi
- Democrats and Republicans are the same
- If China is bad, America is worse
- American censorship is worse than Chinese censorship
- TikTok was banned because it was a threat to the American surveillance state
you’re a Nazi because you don’t support Palestine
Legit. Supporting genocide kinda invalidates your other points.
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And this here is the exact reason im on lemmy.
Lemmy.ml: Comment removed for rule 1. Banned from all communities.
I knew someone would mention it but on lemmy if youre banned from one instance you can just use the other 200 instances
Aye of course, just poking fun that it's not always free from the same bullshit here too!
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But he wasn't banned. even had 120,000 likes.
In Rednote, Could try to support 李文亮，阮晓寰，彭立发，魏京生，刘晓波，王志安，赵紫阳，胡耀邦，陆以恒，郝海东 etc look what happened.
Even support to Ukraine and use Flag of Ukraine.
It's possible for platforms under the influence of the Chinese government and right wing American billionaires to both have harmful censorship.
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Should we be making a large effort to spread the word of better options to people? I feel like the discoverability of social networks (like this one) has gone way down, and a lot of people would like somewhere to doomscroll that isn't shit, but just aren't aware of other places/apps.
Certainly may not help that setting up LemmyWorld on my phone involved a pinned website app, something I'm guessing a lot of people haven't done before.
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Yeah, their censorship is cruel and tragic.
But our censorship is cheeky and fun.
/s because unfortunately it's necessary
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