[rootsudo]

Goes to show, when you criticize any government you have more to lose than to win.

So the message is, think twice, expose a government in bad light, people will feel bad for you, people will say they "wish they can help you" while you'll lament and rot in a prison.

USA does do it too, the more prolific cases are treason, but if you get suspected of anything, wide reaching warrants exist and your privacy becomes null. The more they can't find on you, the more the USA government believes there's a reason to look.

IS China better than USA? No, not at all - but same chilling effects.

[batshit_beaver]

Okay, let's see some examples of American journalists being put in prison over anything other than literal treason (ie leaking classified documents).

Bunch of Winnie the Pooh shills/bots in this thread.

[justicezyx]

> when you criticize any government you have more to lose than to win.

Well, it depends.

https://tousu.www.gov.cn/zwfw/index.htm

This is a Chinese central government website for collecting feedbacks comments and criticism on minor civil issues. At the bottom of the page, there are responses from the government officials on previous comments.

Everything is in Chinese.

I suppose when you say this, you probably have China and other “totalitarian” nations as the subject. So this example is from there.

I am less familiar with US system, but I think minor civil issued are managed by autonomous local community anyway. And there is no federal level civil management after all, not like China. Ie. Chinese central government can have a civil feedback channel, which does not make sense for US feral government, as that's not their scope of responsibility.

Government is setup to manage it's subject. It welcomes feedback, in general. Just like a company, the CEO welcome feedbacks. The government, likewise the CEO, are mostly worried when the subject refuse to care. Leaving everything in stagnation and limbo.

[Cameri]

We tend to forget which countries have already used atomic b*mbs on civilians.