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            Eh the authoritarian capitalists who love the CCP generally seem to embrace the fact that China is authoritarian - they see it as a good thing!

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              I think that we in the west sometimes fall into the trap of believing that our core values of freedom and democracy are supreme and are what all people across the world want to achieve and should aspire to.

              Maybe a lot of people in China think that a strong centralised government guiding the economy and most aspects of people’s lives is the sign of a healthy society and they are happy with it. Maybe they think it’s we who are sick because we don’t like the state being too involved in our lives. To them, perhaps it’s complete insanity.

              Idk, I might be talking complete bs. I just think that different people have different values and there’s no right answer to how society is set up.

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    And there is still a lot of people, especially on lemmy, basically worshipping China and other communist countries.

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      and other communist countries. Authoritarian dictatorships.

      Just because they slap socialist or communist on the country name doesn’t make it so.

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      Capitalists put you in jail for marijuana. They used to put you in jail for alcohol. Hell, child labor is used in capitalist countries. China honestly is an authoritarian mixed economy. But perhaps, even in the USA, authoritarism is preferred.

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        I’m not trying to defend America but they don’t put you in jail or fine you for using a VPN (yet).

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        The difference between democracy and fascism is that the laws are quickly changing due to public opinion in America, but that does not happen in China.

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          People have been smoking Marijuana since the 60’s and it’s still a federally illegal drug at the level of heroine. Laws don’t change quickly in the US at all.

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            I never said laws change quickly.

            Marijuana use only recently became publicly accepted by the majority of people. As a result, it is now completely legal in many states and will likely soon be legal federally.

            This kind of thing would never happen in China.

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    Good luck being a developer or do technical support without GitHub, Google, Reddit (Lemmy?) or stackexchange

    Or market your product without the possibility of accessing any western social network

    If you ever notice, all apps developed in china are similar. Ads at start, invasive tracking using dummy images dropped in /pictures, unnecessary permissions like phone and IMEI, and so on. They literally don’t have a way to compare to something else. There’s the Baidu SDK, Tencent SDK, aliyun SDK and they are using bad coding practices because they’re doing that in isolation

    They’re shooting in their feet

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      That’s hardly the original source. The second paragraph of that article links to another source again.

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        indeed, original source is the wrong term, but at least it’s an english derivation of it, which was only copied by the link in this post

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      There’s a coin telegraph logo on the top of the website so I guess is some licensed syndicated content

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        it is indeed somewhat attributed, but it still very much looks like scraped content.

        a very strong indicator is the inclusion of

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        at the end, which on cointelegraph’s page is separate from the content and provides a sign-up form.