I’ve often heard that China is authoritarian, particularly due to events like the suppression of student protests in Hong Kong. However, I’m curious about more recent examples. Conversely, I’ve been hearing about the UK’s Online Safety Act being used to target Wikipedia editors and silence protests, which raises questions about authoritarian tendencies there as well. What specific examples do you have that demonstrate whether these countries are authoritarian or not?

  • CoderSupreme@programming.devOP
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    5 days ago

    And of course you send me the article from a paper that’s the mouthpiece of some US billionaire. Would you take it seriously if a chinese paper said the US ‘secret police’ is disappearing people? They are going to paint the worse possible picture since they are rivals.

    • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      5 days ago

      Would you take it seriously if a chinese paper said the US ‘secret police’ is disappearing people?

      I mean, they are though.