• Aria 🏳️‍⚧️🇧🇩@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    At this point if you want to know anything about China without getting propaganda/unrelated bs tossed in your way, you’ll need to start using Baidu or Shenme.

    (Western) Search Engines have become this degraded, my god. What the hell happened after 2015? I noticed the Internet turning into a hellscape after 2015.

    And westerners have the guts to say they don’t live in a “totalitarian dictatorship” like China.

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      2 years ago

      Not 2015 but 2016, I think after the Trump and Bernie social media successes either the CIA or NSA realized they needed a much firmer grip on the internet, or they could lose control of the country.