• @[email protected]
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    You’re on the Fediverse. Most of the people here are already actively avoiding Facebook and Xitter. Unfortunately, getting the US, EU, etc. to ban American propaspyware companies is, uh, extremely unlikely. China, however, has banned them long ago, which is why I don’t see why people think it’s hypocritical of the US government to ban Chinese social media.

    • Zement
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      72 hours ago

      Try saying negative stuff about China on .ml I doubt that they are not completely undermined by the Chinese intelligence. (They delete every post critical about china).

      So being vigilant is the only way to avoid getting manipulated.

      • @[email protected]
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        62 hours ago

        .ml might just be useful idiots tbh. But I remember speedrunning an /r/sino ban and that took me all of 1 minute, with a comment that wasn’t even critical about China. It was a thread about how it’s awesome that the west can’t live without China for 5G connectivity and I said that “maybe it isn’t all that great that an entire industry has been entirely centralized to one country” just to see if an absolutely lukewarm take would get banned. It did.

        • Zement
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          61 hour ago

          Yeah, it’s strange. Like even slight criticism. I mean that’s okay, but what about actual constructive discussions? None!

          If you are not allowed to criticize a system, that system is inheritly flawed. But that’s my personal take on this.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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        52 hours ago

        Ah, but they also delete every post that isn’t critical of Western countries.