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Comparing Western journalism to Chinese censorship and its state run propaganda machine is disingenuous to say the least. I would suggest a thorough reading and

• balabaster 10y ago
  It's humorous in the least that you would pull out Wikipedia as a source for such a comment about censorship given the well known and documented behaviour of their moderators. I don't think it's disingenuous in the slightest. I'm not arguing that the Chinese state run propaganda machine isn't bad... but have you got any first hand experience of it? Do you have any clue about it that you haven't learned from other sources? Can you trust those sources? I'm pretty well read and I don't know anything as fact any further than I did before I started reading. All I know is what other people present as evidence. I had no hand in collecting the evidence, I have no proof the evidence hasn't been tampered with or is even true. Do you? Unless you have first hand experience, what do you actually know for sure? This is my point.
  • smilekzs 10y ago
    At least you can access Wikipedia today, and you know with confidence that you can access it tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, next month, etc. This is a luxury in China. It has never been about specific outlets. It has always been about whether there are artificial obstacles between my computer and the rest of the free internet. Before you could even decide whether or not to believe what you see, in China you are simply blindfolded in a non-deterministic (to you) fashion.