I disagree. China's censorship is well-known, not kept secret. Meanwhile in the west, we have the main stream media, whom most citizens trust as a source of truth - especially "independent" orgs like the BBC.

But we can see now that it's a total sham, with the global MSM awash with CIA money, and narratives controlled by local security services; our MSM is propaganda [0].

I believe this is worse than China, because it's so damned insidious - they've taken trusted institutions and relegated them to the whole of US mouthpiece.

[0] https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/bbc-civil-war-gaza-israel-bia...

I am unconvinced that it is more technically complex to censor a historical event from an llm than it is to remove instructions on how to create explosives.

> Xi has knee-capped anything a threat to his power, this Xi-ceiling as I call it, will prevent true cutting edge dominance compared to the West.

you watched too much MSM western media.

what happened in the last 12 years since Xi's rise to the very top is the complete opposite to what you described. just check all those emerging sectors that had huge growth in that 12 years, like mobile internet, 5G, EVs, renewable energy, robotics, AI, quantum, cryptocurrency, what they have in common? you'd be blind if you couldn't even tell that China is now in the top2 positions for ALL those sectors. all these happened during Xi's term.

we are talking about a country used to be dead poor just 40 years ago - Xi used to live in a cave when he was young!

cryptocurrency? Really?