[eunos]

US now apparently asked your social media account including public access if you apply for a visa. Chinese don't care about that.

[afavour]

Well yeah, because they block outside social media networks…

[eunos]

The point is they don't care my yap on my social media unlike the other nation across the pond

[afavour]

Right… because your yap is not accessible to anyone in their country and they have a much higher level of control and tracking that makes a potential dissident less dangerous.

I’m not defending the US policy for a second, it’s totalitarian. But holding China up as a positive comparison to totalitarian impulses is missing the bigger picture.

[Markoff]

not accessible, right, VPN in China cost less than a dollar, truly inaccessible service

tell me you know nothing about China without telling me you know nothing about China besides parroted propaganda

[trumpdong]

They give lighter censorship to foreigners (e.g allowing more VPNs) to lighten the image they get of the country.