Also, by allowing a big centre like Shangai to interact, they’re going balls deep showing to the US public opinion the starking difference of life’s conditions.
That’s not how anything works though. If you go to a Western platform and post content about the reality of China that runs against the propaganda agenda of the West, that content is simply going to be either removed outright on a platform like Reddit or soft censored and shadow banned on Facebook/Instagram/Twitter. The Twitter Files already went into this.
The “international” internet held captive by the Western media oligopoly isn’t some “level playing field” where the “marketplace of ideas” or “free speech” can take place. There’s a reason why everyone here is on lemmygrad rather than back on r/genzedong - because the latter was banned for challenging the Western narrative about Ukraine back in 2022. A billion Chinese coming onto the Western-owned internet isn’t going to be some “I am Spartacus” moment but will simply have them corralled and made to toe the line just like what the West has done in many respects to the Indian userbase. With modern algorithms and AI assistance, it would be easier than it has ever been to censor out the new Chinese voices, especially if (guaranteed given how they’re reacting about RedNote) the US state lends its resource.
Thank you for interjecting here. You articulated the thoughts that were running through my head when I read that reply better than I would have been able to. TBH, this is a lot of what I meant in my original comment. The person you were replying to is leaving out one key element, a element you account for, which is that there’s an assumption that American government, platforms, media, etc, is operating from a position of good faith, something that objective reality has shown to be absolutely false. The ruling American oligarchy does not operate in good faith, ever. They will lie, cheat, and manipulate anything and everything to suit their narrative and increase profits. The market reigns supreme, until it becomes more profitable to corral it. Protectionism is bad, except for our own protectionism. I could continue but I think this beats the dead horse enough.
That’s not how anything works though. If you go to a Western platform and post content about the reality of China that runs against the propaganda agenda of the West, that content is simply going to be either removed outright on a platform like Reddit or soft censored and shadow banned on Facebook/Instagram/Twitter. The Twitter Files already went into this.
The “international” internet held captive by the Western media oligopoly isn’t some “level playing field” where the “marketplace of ideas” or “free speech” can take place. There’s a reason why everyone here is on lemmygrad rather than back on r/genzedong - because the latter was banned for challenging the Western narrative about Ukraine back in 2022. A billion Chinese coming onto the Western-owned internet isn’t going to be some “I am Spartacus” moment but will simply have them corralled and made to toe the line just like what the West has done in many respects to the Indian userbase. With modern algorithms and AI assistance, it would be easier than it has ever been to censor out the new Chinese voices, especially if (guaranteed given how they’re reacting about RedNote) the US state lends its resource.
Thank you for interjecting here. You articulated the thoughts that were running through my head when I read that reply better than I would have been able to. TBH, this is a lot of what I meant in my original comment. The person you were replying to is leaving out one key element, a element you account for, which is that there’s an assumption that American government, platforms, media, etc, is operating from a position of good faith, something that objective reality has shown to be absolutely false. The ruling American oligarchy does not operate in good faith, ever. They will lie, cheat, and manipulate anything and everything to suit their narrative and increase profits. The market reigns supreme, until it becomes more profitable to corral it. Protectionism is bad, except for our own protectionism. I could continue but I think this beats the dead horse enough.