It’s absolutely not better because the government is accountable to the public to at least some extent. Meanwhile, private entities are by definition not accountable to anyone but their owners. When all your media is owned by a handful of megacorps then it’s far worse than having media owned by the government.
That’s right as long as it’s the megacorporations and not the government deciding what you’re allowed to see then everything’s fine.
It’s absolutely better, after all you can just not use reddit. What are chinese people supposed to do?
It’s absolutely not better because the government is accountable to the public to at least some extent. Meanwhile, private entities are by definition not accountable to anyone but their owners. When all your media is owned by a handful of megacorps then it’s far worse than having media owned by the government.