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I'm a young person with other young people friends. One such friend grew up in Shanghai. He had never heard of the Tiananmen Square student protests (and the re
by cavanasm 10y ago
I'm a young person with other young people friends. One such friend grew up in Shanghai. He had never heard of the Tiananmen Square student protests (and the resulting military intervention) until he came to the US for college and someone asked him about it. Anecdotally, it seems China does a very, very, good job of controlling information through their extensive government controls. Telling Chinese people about something like that would probably surprise them greatly.
- azrazalea 10y agoOnly if you could tell them though. As you said, China is good at controlling information. I think the point is good overall.
- chj 10y agoYour young friend was uninformed but that doesn't mean that most people in China don't know about the incident. You have to get something much further than that.
- nebabyte 10y agoMeanwhile, if you went to China, I doubt anyone there could tell you what your government was keeping from you. That's how good they are at regulating their information, and is precisely the reason why we need Wikileaks. There's plenty that WL doesn't know that you might die never having known, and your great-grandchildren might ever only hear about in history books (and maybe not even then, depending on who the victors are).