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I can’t imagine this kind of stuff happens in the PRC. The upside to a tightly-controlled “infosphere” is that people who are at the controls and have rational

• smt88 2y ago
  It is significantly worse in the PRC, where they don't believe that the Uyghur genocide is happening. At least (for now) the West has no similar level of denial about something within their own borders.
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• AnimalMuppet 2y ago
  And the downside of that upside is that they jump right in and quench things, not always on the basis of idiocy, but also on the basis of opposing the government's narrative. That doesn't actually lead to rationality.
• card_zero 2y ago
  Category:Conspiracy theories in China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Conspiracy_theories_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Conspiracy_theories_i... (From Category:Conspiracy theories by country) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Conspiracy_theories_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Conspiracy_theories_b...
  • 0xdde 2y ago
    Funny enough, the fact that your link lists 9 pages compared to 112 for the US[1], it could be taken as stronger evidence for the parent's point. Not that I think this is a particularly reliable way to gauge the phenomenon. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Conspiracy_theories_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Conspiracy_theories_i...
    • red-iron-pine 2y ago
      do you expect there to be 100 pages in English about obscure Chinese gossip and conspiracy?
      • 0xdde 2y ago
        No, but I expect a better argument than a link to that page.
        • card_zero 2y ago
          Well, the argument I'm making is just there are some conspiracy theories in China. That's all, no refunds.