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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by oicu812 on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:06PM (#23227702)
Transparency International ranks the US as number 23 and China as number 80 in their list of transparency/corruption. They are not in the same quartile and can't be considered similar in transparency.

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2019/results/table

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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by jaccarmac on Monday May 18, 2020 @05:09PM (#23228399)
Don't overgeneralize: The page you linked explicitly lays it out. Corruption Perceptions Index. Each word is important. In addition, think tanks have biases and TI is no exception. Do you think that the "experts and business people" they interview to calculate CPI have interests which may align more or less with different nations?

In any case, I opened by admitting my perception of the United States is as a more transparent actor than China. Still doesn't make a dichotomy.

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