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1) whataboutism 2) citation needed 3) Even if both sides utilize propaganda, historically the scale of agitprop coming from authoritarian countries has been muc
by krapht 3y ago
1) whataboutism
2) citation needed
3) Even if both sides utilize propaganda, historically the scale of agitprop coming from authoritarian countries has been much greater. This is still newsworthy.
You can't even read most Western propaganda in China because the government goes to great lengths to censor narratives counter to offical views.
- feedforward 3y ago> You can't even read most Western propaganda in China because the government goes to great lengths to censor narratives counter to offical views. Sure, because you can watch Russian news channels like RT in the EU, or read websites like rt.com - oh no, they're blocked. Just like in the EU, where the government goes to great lengths to censor narratives counter to offical views, so does China.
- atlantic 3y agoDepends how narrowly you define agitprop. If you consider everything that comes out of the American media/news conglomerates as propaganda, then it's orders of magnitude greater than the efforts of China or Russia.
- neves 3y agoand Hollywood. And Facebook. And X
- Workaccount2 3y agoThe difference is that American media isn't owned by the government. Chinese media can't tell the government to "fuck off" if they don't want to report something. In the US they can.
- aurareturn 3y agoYou’re delusional if you don’t think the US government controls the media. It does so in an indirect way but it does.
- aurareturn 3y ago1) Do not hide behind "whataboutism" 2) CIA 3) Citation needed
- alienicecream 3y agoWhataboutism: a smear word used to imply that hypocrisy is irrelevant. It isn't.
- aurareturn 3y agoOn HN, it’s basically an excuse to say that China can’t do what the US is already doing.
- bigbillheck 3y ago> historically the scale of agitprop coming from authoritarian countries has been much greater Is this actually the case or is it just that we're not seeing the stuff the west does? > You can't even read most Western propaganda in China because the government goes to great lengths to censor narratives counter to offical views. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/15/all-lies-how-the-us-military-covered-up-gunning-down-two-journalists-in-iraq https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/15/all-lies-how... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_bombing_memo#Previous_U.S._bombings_of_Al_Jazeera_offices https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_bombing_memo#Previo...