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> The Chinese government is scrubbing the country’s internet of sympathetic or accurate coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and systematically amplifying
by tpoacher 5y ago
> The Chinese government is scrubbing the country’s internet of sympathetic or accurate coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and systematically amplifying pro-Putin talking points.
This sentence makes zero sense.
Unrelatedly, I would love to see an unbiased comparison to e.g. US media doing effectively the same thing. Not going to happen, of course (understandbly, for both countries, given their respective foreign policies and handle on their mainstream media, albeit in different ways).
I'm very surprised, e.g., that throughout this, nobody has yet to make a comparison to the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis. To me it looks like the mirror image of what's happening in Ukraine right now (minus the international outrage/sanctions/boycotting element -- different times before the internet, I suppose)