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When we look at China: banning Western social media platforms and promoting their own... Maybe their are good reasons for doing so. In this case, better policin

• jjcc 8y ago
  This is somewhat a reason that although a lot of educated Chinese people might not totally agree with the policy of the government , they understand the reason behind the strict media control. However their different altitude from average westerners are misinterpreted as: 1.They are brainwashed by government propaganda, or 2.They don't understand the value of free speech , or 3.They are too nationalistic (That's partially true. Eastern Asian are generally more nationalistic than other nationals except average Americans). There are other countries adopt similar policies which also lead to success: Singapore, Rwanda. Unfortunately few people want to debate the dark side of free speech because of political correctness. Nowadays there are already some brave voices debating about intelligence vs ethnicity. Hopefully the debate can extend to other topic such as different nations/cultures/populations have different levels of rationality and immune to fake news quite differently.