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Equating everything to China or middle eastern countries is the 2023 equivalent of equating everything to Hitler. This is bad but not yet _that_ bad. I have t
by cuuupid 3y ago
Equating everything to China or middle eastern countries is the 2023 equivalent of equating everything to Hitler.
This is bad but not yet _that_ bad. I have to say though, EU legislature in recent years is on a very slippery slope.
- akira2501 3y agoI don't think viewing the nation with the "Great Firewall" as a polemic in this debate is anywhere near such equivocations.
- perihelions 3y agoThat's kind of the point I was going for in my (post-edit) comment. EU countries are broadly very free countries, totally and qualitatively unlike the authoritarian exemplars. The threat of shutting down social media to quench anti-government protests, specifically, is very, very like parallel examples from repressive dictatorships. It's a thought-terminating cliche to erase this second observation by overwriting it with the first.