[kuzehanka]

> This whole thread derails from the topic of censorship

Or highlights the relationship between capitalism and censorship when the capital is held by a totalitarian state?

China has quietly sat and waited for the last 50 years while they accrued capital. Now they have it, and they're using it to take control of the same incentive systems that created the developed world. Ignoring the threat that's posed, or ignoring the weakness of those incentive systems is going to be fatal to the ideologies that China has targeted.