| >I think you don't understand how china operates. You conflate so many things at once, most of these aren't governmental censorship. A lot of these is outsourced governmental censorship. And all of these support a single narrative, in lock-step about all kinds of issues. >Companies firing people, advertiser dropping influencers, being fact checked, &c. has nothing to do with the government Yeah, just happens to coincide with domestic and foreign policy agendas and narratives the government pushes, and government affiliated/sponsored overt or covert "fact checkers" and "independent bodies", all the way to direct orders from the government. Read on "The Twitter Files: The Censorship Industrial Complex". The private sector companie don't have to be told what to do: they just see where the wind goes and act accordingly. Nobody was fired for being pro-narrative or for firing anti-narrative people. But increasingly they are also told what to do, threatened with related ("disinformation") or unrelated (taxes and such) violations, and such. >Do you know what censorship is ? Do you know how china enforce censorship ? and at what scale ? If so you can't say in good faith that EU = China. No, but I can say that I give very few fucks in what China does, but as a person in the EU I give many fucks what the EU does, and how the public discourse is getting increasingly less open than in past decades. (I wouldn't give much fucks about what the US does internally either, but unfortunately, unlike China, they also export it) |