Often coordinating to target intelligence and political targets.
It’s a technological wing for a totalitarian intelligence department. That’s what it is. It also has social media functions, but it also has an intelligence function.
If you think “well the US does it too” well I invite you to move to Shanghai and live the rest of your days there and tell me you feel just as free as in New York City.
Also, two wrongs don’t make a right.
In what ways would your freedom be impacted in Shangai vs NYC?
Because I know or a fact I'd able to live a normal life in Shangai. Work, grow kids, go out and enjoy entertainment, have good healthcare and so on.
Is it the ability to vote your president that makes or break "freedom" for you? Well apparently ~40% of USAmericans have given that up as the average voter turnout in the US is ~60%. The vote you are offered in the US is a Hobson's choice, it's a choice between bad and worse.
if that's actually what you believe in, no difference. To most people the differences are obvious.
Hence no argument that you can actually explain, just a gut feeling driven by ignorance of what life in China is.
If you mean that I have 1 minute every few hours to come check here if you answered me, yes I do. The same is true of you.
Being afforded the opportunity to choose between a bad and a worse government gives me no hope, and apparently many feel the same in the so-called liberal democracies.
Just check this graph[0] at page 27. Am I the doomer or are about 40% of the world voters feeling doomed?
> brutal, genocidal autocracy
Brutal how? Genocidal is false as the whole Uyghur genocide has been proven over and over to be bullshit.
> assuming you're in the ingroup, stay in line, ignore meatfisted policy implications
lol, try to be openly communist in the USA and see what happens to your career.
.0: https://www.idea.int/sites/default/files/publications/voter-...