I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine

Re:I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine by anigbrowl on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @01:46PM (#26253883)

Insofar as the government in China and the CCP are synonymous and have been for a long time, most people would regard approval of the government there as implicit approval of the CCP. It did show up as flagged for me.

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Re:I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine by yorwba on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @06:22PM (#26257557)

The CCP is much bigger than the government and most CCP members don't have any government power, while at the same time there are influential posts in parts of the party that exist outside the government hierarchy (e. g. the Communist Youth League.)

So it's entirely possible to think that the CCP is full of parasites trying to mooch off the government while the people actually working in government are at least trying to grow the pie instead of just fighting for a bigger slice, or alternatively that the government is full of power-hungry people and the CCP's internal control mechanisms are at least limiting the worst excesses. So the two are not entirely synonymous.

Regarding the flagging status: this is what you copied:

> ---- nglengjai 10 minutes ago [dead] | parent | unvouch | favorite | on: I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine

If it had been flagged, it would have said so. Compare

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26244625

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Re:I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine by anigbrowl on Thursday February 25, 2021 @01:23AM (#26260262)

If it had been flagged, it would have said so. Compare

Good catch, I guess I mixed it up with a different post.

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