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by redcobra762 505 days ago
The difference is that in China the info isn’t available without use of Western content, due to the totalitarian control over media, whereas in the West, information is pretty trivially available, even if the big companies keep it off of their platforms.

And sure ignorance is prevalent, but even GPT4 will tell me Donbas is still Ukraine, for instance. What a strange example to use, though!
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foxglacier 504 days ago
"GPT4 will tell me Donbas is still Ukraine"

But is it though? What's really the meaning of which country a region belongs to? Once somewhere has been occupied long enough, it usually becomes de-facto theirs. But how long is long enough? Other countries either do or don't recognize it and usually a consensus is reached, but not always.

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ossobuco 505 days ago
If western governments are so tolerant and permissive with information, I wonder why can't I access RT in Europe?
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redcobra762 504 days ago
Because you don’t know how to use a Western VPN?
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ossobuco 504 days ago
Isn't it the same in China then? They can also use VPNs
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redcobra762 504 days ago
...and where, pray tell, do they VPN into?
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