Re:I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine
by pca006132 on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:57PM
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But I see the GFW getting more advanced :)
And I think that it may be more justifiable if the censorship is also towards fake information and hate speech, but sadly this isn't quite true (check weibo or something). This is purely something political.
Re:I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine
by hungryhobo on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @08:25PM
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If we are just talking about GFW I actually think people will eventually realize the CCP got it right all along, data is the new oil, and other government are just too incompetent to protect it.
On one hand censorship hinders internal transparency and makes it difficult to hold the government accountable. On the other hand information warfare is a thing, especially between geopolitical rivals, censorship is a cheap way to mitigate against them.
For what it's worth, there are increasing voices within the chinese government that are advocating for removing the great firewall because the new generation of chinese are more and more confident with their own political system.