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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Don't know who needs to hear this but VPNs are allowed in China and can get around "censorship". In general you can still access information abroad but China is dedicated to having their mass-media not be inflammatory. You can talk about Uighurs on RedNote, but you can't level baseless accusations and expect those to stay up.

[–] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 weeks ago

Try to use Signal in China.

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Because one is public access to the web, the other is a private platform, and not the web. Facebook and Instagram aren’t the web and aren’t open access to the world’s information. It’s like saying your rights are being trampled on if Walmart bans you from their store. You still have access to food.

[–] SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s like saying your rights are being trampled on if Walmart bans you from their store. You still have access to food.

With the existence of food desserts and Walmart's decades long crusade of monopolization this is less true than you think.

Sure, you can still go buy food, but in many parts of rural US it's now an hour+ trip each way to the gas station and costs 3x as much as you can afford. Meaning in reality you don't.

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 weeks ago

Right-libertarians don't accept the existence of monopolies.

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

You're making exactly the right-libertarian point the meme mocks.

ancaptain

Explain why you think "private property" should get special privileges.

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world -2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Pro tip: English is a left to right language.

[–] jackeroni@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 weeks ago

Pro tip: When reading a meme, meme format/template dictates the reading order, not the language

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

That seems dumb. It's a northern-hemisphere language; the Moon waxes/wanes right-to-left in the northern hemisphere.