Can't go allowing Western propaganda about "personal liberty" to interfere with our grand plans. But we're definitely not authoritarian. You will grow to love the options we give you.
Can't go allowing Western propaganda about "personal liberty" to interfere with our grand plans. But we're definitely not authoritarian. You will grow to love the options we give you.
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lol you're gonna clown on Edward Snowden of all people on privacy smdh...
Snowden is clowning when he uses shit terms like authoritarian and totalitarian to paint the enemies of the west as somehow worse than the west itself.
Is it possible for both the US and China to suck on privacy? Just because he blew the lid on the US doesn't magically make China a paean of liberty.
There are issues with privacy in both countries, but for different reasons and in different ways, just mindlessly going "Both sides bad" or "China worse because state" is libshit.
So take a stand, make a statement and regale us with what wonders you know about China's respect for personal privacy. Feel free to share sources, too. I'm here to learn.
Its a tradeoff for security and stability, the dreaded social credit system(Which is actually a non centralized set of unrelated systems in some regions that target specific things) has generally been met with positive attitudes for punishing people that act carelessly or disturb others, but of course Americans shriek at the thought of not having the freedom to ruin everyones day on the train or to run across roads without a green light.
Note that the U.S. has plenty of stuff like this, too. It's not a scary totalitarian thing that only The Other would impose on their citizens; it's your credit report, it's Verizon "firing" customers who aren't profitable, it's a cop ticketing you for littering.
This is the best example of why the terminology of authoritarianism and totalitarianism is liberal bullshit, its literally "When the government does the bad stuff" combined with liberal idealism about rights.
Littering is a shitty thing to do though. Fuck you if you litter.
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Nobody finds the both sidesing shit useful. We live in the heart of empire and the best you can do is say "but other place also bad sometimes"
Literally suck it up. There's no freedom anywhere. It's bullshit. Your body has stickers and stamps and rides rails and scales like any piece of fucking meat. Capitalism has subsumed the entire world, and it's fueled by sweat and greased by blood.
You've never felt freedom and most likely never will. Move onto a different topic like, "how do I not become a petty bourgeois prick who whines about some unrealized liberal notion of freedom while sopping up the blood from master's dribbling chin".