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Not letting foreign governments control media in your country is definitely a thing that governments do, and I imagine the intelligence agencies know more than

• autoexec 3y ago
  > Not letting foreign governments control media in your country is definitely a thing that governments do Except that china never controlled media in the US, they just offered one option out of many. The fact that the option China offered was widely preferred over those made by US companies seems to be the problem. I'd rather have an open internet where we can get access to information from companies in other countries. We shouldn't be blocked from accessing Chinese Youtube anymore than we should be blocked from Chinese websites or the media at bbc.com or abc.net.au
  • phone8675309 3y ago
    > Except that china never controlled media in the US Nonsense. If you want to make a movie that actually makes money you have to cut it for the Chinese censors on set.
    • autoexec 3y ago
      That doesn't mean that China controls the media, it means the US companies that do control media care more about money than anything else. Just like most US companies do. They don't bow down to China, they only worship higher profits. If some other country paid them more money to insert Winnie the Poo into every movie than the money they make from China by inserting maps with the Nine-Dash-Line or giving a Chinese actress a cameo they'd be doing that instead.
      • Rastonbury 3y ago
        You should look into how Chinese state linked companies buys stakes in newspapers around the world and ask yourself why they'd ever want to do such a thing. Also, the belt and road initiative or loans to African nations