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Re:China Spreads Propaganda to U.S. On Facebook, a Platform ... by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @03:33PM (#15656685)
The USA didn’t ban wechat, if that’s what you are getting at.

And aren’t you just exercising a black or white binary fallacy when we are really comparing a light shade of grey to a much darker one?

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Re:China Spreads Propaganda to U.S. On Facebook, a Platform ... by deusofnull on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @05:13PM (#15657629)
I wasn't really trying to make a specific criticism where one country would come out as the "lighter" or the "darker", more so that the fabricated outrage and incredulity on the part of the US regarding foreign intervention in our "democracy" is an absurd kafkaesque delusion regarding our history.
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Re:China Spreads Propaganda to U.S. On Facebook, a Platform ... by user982 on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @03:56PM (#15656944)
> And aren’t you just exercising a black or white binary fallacy when we are really comparing a light shade of grey to a much darker one?

And which are you saying is which?

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Re:China Spreads Propaganda to U.S. On Facebook, a Platform ... by BeetleB on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @04:19PM (#15657157)
The lighter being China?

https://www.npr.org/2016/12/22/506625913/database-tracks-his...

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Re:China Spreads Propaganda to U.S. On Facebook, a Platform ... by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @04:26PM (#15657219)
The one that feels the need to block Facebook of course is worse. I’ll let you figure out what country is that.
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Re:China Spreads Propaganda to U.S. On Facebook, a Platform ... by mmel on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @05:32PM (#15657774)
Why is blocking Facebook bad? I do not think the existence of Facebook has been a net-positive for society.
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Re:China Spreads Propaganda to U.S. On Facebook, a Platform ... by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @06:43PM (#15658288)
Propaganda and censorship are two different evils, the latter is worse than the former, IMHO, because it silences the conversation all together.
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Re:China Spreads Propaganda to U.S. On Facebook, a Platform ... by BeetleB on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @04:33PM (#15657286)
And I'll let you figure out which country is more guilty in manipulating elections.
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Re:China Spreads Propaganda to U.S. On Facebook, a Platform ... by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @06:43PM (#15658296)
China doesn’t have elections (well, meaningful ones at least), so you are probably right there.
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