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First off they're not the same thing, comparing the removal of questionable healthcare information voluntarily on a private platform to the government mandated

First off they're not the same thing, comparing the removal of questionable healthcare information voluntarily on a private platform to the government mandated removal in China is a false equivalence. Secondly if you want to discuss the Chinese approach to tech it's pretty trivial to find good reasons for their conduct. They've enabled a domestic, competitive tech industry free from foreign interference. You just need to compare it to Europe which is dominated by American platforms. If you don't own your software you have no sovereignty and live by other people's rule, which China is tired off. It's that simple. Also East-Asian societies, not just the scary authoritarian China price social harmony and health highly and above individual interests. Which I'm inclined to think is fairly sane seeing the bodies pile up over here.

nsonha 5y ago
Why should tech companies be trusted to do this? If the software developer community is representative of tech companies' intellect, they are a group of pretentious people who think because they can copy paste some stuff from SO and parroting software "engineering" best practices, they now have the intellectual capability to project their opinions on every problem facing humanity onto everyone else.
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908B64B197 5y ago
> not just the scary authoritarian China price social harmony and health highly and above individual interests As long as you are Han Chinese, sure. If you are Uyghur, enjoy the reeducation camp! Scary to see westerners (including some western leaders!) praising these regimes.