I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine

Re:I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine by bordercases on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:03PM (#26244776)

Does happiness mean harmony or does happiness mean expression?

Therein lies the philosophical difference between the US and China.

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Re:I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine by themacguffinman on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @09:35PM (#26245951)

Harmony for whom? Dead & tortured dissidents, religious citizens, people who express truth to help their community against dangerous state sanctioned lies? The citizens for whom dissent is fatal and whose every communication & information source is controlled; those are the people who are proclaiming that they live in harmony?

This is philosophically absurd, like a murderer pleading innocence by killing everyone who dares accuse him. What immense harmony must have fallen in the court!

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Re:I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine by GekkePrutser on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:43PM (#26245112)

How harmonious is a society if that harmony is forced upon it?

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Re:I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine by bordercases on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @08:27PM (#26245480)

Harmonious!

FWIW China also has a culture that appreciates subterfuge/hidden efforts as a part of what it means to live skillfully in society. So the dissonance might not be as strong if you are high-trust on the surface, yet low-trust in the back.

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