Okay, so background: I'm your average pro-gun fuck-the-police, fuck-trump zoomer honed by years of unsupervised internet access and I've just discovered this community and started lurking for a while. But I still hold extremely negative views on China, which I still think are justified.
"Which views?" I'll throw them out real quick: child labor! internet censorship! media censorship! anti-LGBTQ! uygher genocide? positive and pro war relations with russia! (because fuck putin)
So I get really confused anytime I see people expressing pro-China sentiments. Have I been spoonfed by the media or are some of these points actually justified?
I'd argue the open internet as we have it has become a sort of dystopia. When it was still new, companies and tech enthusiasts proclaimed that it would unsure in a new era of human understanding and free information -- a pretty utopian promise. What we actually got is a tool for building private databases of advertising profiles and the mass proliferation of Q-anon style nonsense. I'm kinda envious of China's model. If you can clear the most basic barrier of tech literacy, congrats, you get to visit the open web! Otherwise, it's a walled garden where yer gran isn't gonna get silly ideas about Sharia law or vaccine 'poisons'.