• MidnightPocket [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    9 hours ago

    Terrible plan.

    If this is enacted - Chinese citizens will not be interacting with the Western working class (who are notoriously mono-lingual); they will be interacting with CIA propaganda-bots en masse.

    Please do not allow Perestroika 2.0, Xi.

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
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      7 hours ago

      chinese people are not stupid, the quality of their social media is already better than western ones, they vast majority will just leave the apps they try if they suck. At this point in time, chinese people being able to see what the americans have is a great way to shatter the ideallized version of americans that a vast amount of chinese people have.

      People around the world use american social media because they dont have an alternative, chinese people do have alternatives.

      • TheGenderWitch [she/her, she/her]@hexbear.net
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        3 hours ago

        it doesn’t matter how smart one is, america still has a powerful media monopoly. This is not china unleashing itself on the west but the reverse, since they aren’t making any rules to protect themselves from enemies.