I guess its pedantic to point out some of these are racist caricatures of Mongolia and Japan.
Got this shit recommend to me on YouTube, never clicked it, it gave me westoid vibes. Is it as bad as it looks?
doge memes by far. At least polandball is honest about its fascism instead of trying to pass itself off as cute and harmless.
Mhm, the problem with trying to mock everyone equally is that some are far more deserving of scorn than others.
The great firewall isn't there to keep the people of China in, it's to keep weird redditers out.
If everything wasn't in Mandarin, I would just VPN behind the firewall and enjoy a better internet.
The government really dosen't care if you go around the firewall, like YouTube is blocked in China but there is a shitton of Chinese content on there. It's still partly about information control but now a big reason to continue it is to keep foreign tech companies out of the Chinese market and allow development of a native tech infrastructure. They would rather people call it "authoritarianism" instead of protectionism becuase the latter might trigger some trade sanctions.
