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Re:China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet... by SFJulie on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @04:28AM (#11759788)
You can censor by scarcity (China) or censor by overabundance of trivia (Western).

When Kardashian out weigth cultural news, PR of corps outweigth economical analysis, half baked tutorial replaces consistent tutorial, unproven science replaces science : you drown signal in noise.

How many Western citizens have read that the middle eastern wars are mainly about the top 4 weapon dealers (UK, USA, Fr, Russia) bribing locals (see #clintonmails & #panamapapers) in order to ensure the growth of their economy and the disposal of scarce resources (oil, Phosphate, Uranium, Copper, Gold)?

How many citizens knows that we are fueling education/health bubbles based on good intentions (NHS) without control (incompetence?) that results in counter productive results?

There are 2 ways to censor: cut the access to information (earth friendly solution) or hide the information in a haystack (resulting in 2-3% of global energy burned in spin doctoring).

Re:China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet... by Flimm on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @04:37AM (#11759819)
The Chinese government does censor by overabundance of trivia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party . Do you have evidence that Western governments are doing similar things?
Re:China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet... by Frqy3 on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @09:16AM (#11761258)
Re:China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet... by flatM on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @09:24AM (#11761308)
Very spot-on post. I don't have any facts or numbers though. But my gut feelings is that the percentage of people that survive the scarcity (China) or overabundance (West) are comparable.