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I think your analysis as to why the west is different from china in this regard is correct. And while you say that they are far from reaching the same degree of
by rosmax_1337 3y ago
I think your analysis as to why the west is different from china in this regard is correct. And while you say that they are far from reaching the same degree of intensity, I say that I disagree. But to elaborate much further would lead to unnecessary flames.
Certainly large block of oppositional parties and thoughts are allowed to spread, but those large blocks all fall within the more or less same [insert-state-ideology] group anyway which the west adheres to. And anyone who does not fall within that ideology is in fact censored just as harshly as china censors things.
This is also a fairly recent development, up to as early as 2015 the internet landscape did not look this way.
- mbivert 3y ago> I say that I disagree. But to elaborate much further would lead to unnecessary flames. It's almost impossible to reach a consensus on such complex issues: we all have different sources of information, sensibilities, biais, etc. Polite discussions with discordant point of views is pretty much the best we can hope to achieve. > This is also a fairly recent development, up to as early as 2015 the internet landscape did not look this way. For the sake of completeness, those kind of techniques have been successfully set into motion in the West as early as WWI[0][1]. This[2] was posted here recently: it was essentially "public" knowledge by 1949, well understood by educated classes. That's to say, it's not really surprising to see the Internet used in this manner. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Lippmann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Lippmann [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays [2]: https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/ https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/