Title, I'm a leftist but after reading some things on lemmygrad and here it seems I might have been lied to all my life. I have talked with some people from Cuba and Venezuela (expats) that support the west narrative about poverty and mismanagement. I "believe" that Russia is attacking Ukraine for selfish reasons and that China censors access to foreign information using the Great Firewall, please prove me wrong. Furthermore, it ultimately depends who do you want to believe or there are hard facts from reputable sources that are simply a hidden by the mass media?
EDIT: Thanks everyone for your very civil responses. I'll answer as many as I can!
Chinese call their censorship red, yellow and black. Black is crime, criminal activity, mafia, that sort of thing. Yellow is porn, in China yellow is the color of sex, in the way we used to say "blue movies" for porn back when it was shown in movie theaters. No T&A, and if you even show cleavage (of T or A) it gets censored. Red is anti-Party activity, organizing against the State, Falun Gong, Eastern Lightning, that sort of thing.
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