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Throwaway here. I’ve lived in China for a few years and I noticed anytime I write anything even remotely positive about my experience there I will get downvote

Throwaway here. I’ve lived in China for a few years and I noticed anytime I write anything even remotely positive about my experience there I will get downvoted or flagged. Even completely neutral comments sometimes gets downvoted.

dgfitz 1y ago
I don’t think anyone doubts there are good things that come from China. Using a throwaway account won’t help your cause marketing China. Like every other “superpower” China has their major, major flaws. The kicker is trust. Pro-China rhetoric on a highly-moderated forum should be met with skepticism. This isn’t opinion. The great firewall of China isn’t a farce, it would be good to remember that.
- t1E9mE7JTRjf 1y ago
  So because there are bad things in China nobody can say anything that's not negative about China? Or how do you see things?
  - lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y ago
    It sounds more like the concern is that a post coming from China has a significantly higher likelihood to be state-sponsored propaganda than a resident’s/citizen’s genuine opinion. It makes sense on its face that it would be “higher” (that’s the point about the Great Firewall) but it seems to be a matter of personal opinion how “significant” that increase is.
- gosub100 1y ago
  > won’t help your cause marketing China by what means did you determine that was his cause?
ibaikov 1y ago
Russian here. I can't show -any- cool tech made here or an optimization that we do that western countries don't because people would say I praise Russia no matter how much more often and harsher I criticize. They don't even know what I think about the country, I just can't speak about it. I appreciate people who are saving flagged comments because what made HN great 10-15 years ago was that I often changed my views because people would articulate why they are right and they sometimes indeed were.

dgfitz 1y ago

I don’t think anyone doubts there are good things that come from China. Using a throwaway account won’t help your cause marketing China. Like every other “superpower” China has their major, major flaws. The kicker is trust. Pro-China rhetoric on a highly-moderated forum should be met with skepticism. This isn’t opinion. The great firewall of China isn’t a farce, it would be good to remember that.

t1E9mE7JTRjf 1y ago
So because there are bad things in China nobody can say anything that's not negative about China? Or how do you see things?
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y ago
  It sounds more like the concern is that a post coming from China has a significantly higher likelihood to be state-sponsored propaganda than a resident’s/citizen’s genuine opinion. It makes sense on its face that it would be “higher” (that’s the point about the Great Firewall) but it seems to be a matter of personal opinion how “significant” that increase is.
gosub100 1y ago
> won’t help your cause marketing China by what means did you determine that was his cause?

ibaikov 1y ago

Russian here. I can't show -any- cool tech made here or an optimization that we do that western countries don't because people would say I praise Russia no matter how much more often and harsher I criticize. They don't even know what I think about the country, I just can't speak about it. I appreciate people who are saving flagged comments because what made HN great 10-15 years ago was that I often changed my views because people would articulate why they are right and they sometimes indeed were.