What a bizarre doomer set of goalposts. One, we literally had an election and now Facebook’s no longer doing this, thats a win for a start. We also shut down USAID and I got to read an article crying about how a bunch of people no longer get paid $300,000yr running nonprofits to bring in immigrants and spread propaganda, so thats cool. Some of the stuff coming out of the current supreme court has been good.
I can’t find it now but a while ago I read a very interesting article about a guy who worked for the Chinese censorship service, tried to blow the whistle on them violating their own laws and eventually fled the country.
I also read about the wallbleed hack that exposed the sort of data China gathers from internet users as well as how their DNS interception system works to stop users from accessing forbidden domain names.
I think there are definitely many in the UK who WANT China’s level of censorship. But even as the situation in the UK is becoming dire, the scale of internet policing, scope of topics that are censored by the government, and the severity of punishment dealt out are still well behind that of China.
(I remember the guy who fled China being at risk of a 15+ year sentence, for example. Worst I have seen in UK is 4 years… Which is still insane enough to start a riot, but not equal to China).
I’m dead sick of hearing this argument. One, it’s completely legalistic. The holocaust was legal too. Two, it’s incorrect. The government has been in trouble for coercing private entities like this before. I’m sure it would not pass in the current supreme court. They only got away with it for so long because they did it secretly from the public.
Given the choice, this is obviously behavior that should be stopped by legal intervention or possibly green Mario. There was no punishment because the worst of it passed before it was made public, much like nobody got imprisoned for various CIA crimes or whatever. Thats it.
Facebook, twitter, YouTube, Google Search, and Amazon Books accepted a vast quantity of secret, backdoor censorship “requests” from the US government, mostly during Biden’s administration. Facebook had a private web portal for requests and bragged about handling millions of requests per year. Private emails with Mark Zuckerberg lament that they have been processing requests that are very clear free speech, and are not even misinformation, such as statements of opinion. Facebook in particular, closed this portal before Trump took office. Reddit is not named in this document but I am personally certain they took similar requests.
We are not even close
They’ve been saying that since before you were born.
“Sorry, I meant have more babies AND stay around as a father.”
The el train in Chicago is almost perfect except for the crackheads
This is a funny headline if you want to complain but sneaking behind some bushes in the park is still free.
I will believe its about equality when we get Black Hitler in a Netflix historical drama. WITH the gay sex scenes, please.
I have a disc drive in my computer. I’ve still torrented games that I have on my shelf because its easier.
About $2 is state taxes
People who were paying attention knew his brain had melted in like, march of 2021 or something. There was a video of him getting lost stepping off of a helicopter and having to be herded around by secret service agents, plus a lot of times he clearly forgot what he was doing while giving speeches, well before the fateful debate that would lose him the nomination.
The CHOICE by many people to ignore these very obvious signs was a major harm to the democrat presidential campaign in 2024.
Huffington post, the same news source in the OP, ran this, along with most mainstream outlets. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michael-douglas-defends-joe-biden-trump_n_66263808e4b08151cacad929
Brought to you by the people who swore up and down that Biden is “as sharp as a tack”.
I dunno, I just feel like there might be some catch to this coming from.the country that can’t even copy a modern fighter jet to save their lives.
Wait, how can that be right? Shakespeare had access to coca leaves and was smoking them? I know it’s not literally impossible but it seems unlikely…
To keep it short, I agree, I just dont like to see people trying to trick teenagers on here that China isnt worse than the west is right now.