In the west, outside the US, I think it'd be fairly easy to argue there's more censorship in China. (Even with the pretty depressing clamp down on right to protest, and suppressing of anti-israel speech in many forms happening at the moment)

Equally though, people massively overblow what censorship is actually like in China. I'm not gonna get disappeared next time I go to China just for this comment. Or even if I overtly criticised the government on real-name social media.

tl;dr "China bad!" and "China so good!" are both equally annoying positions to find on the internet.

Reality is nuanced, but that doesn't seem to make people happy.

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

suppression of anti-israel speech

any source on this because what I'm seeing on xiaohongshu is quite the opposite

[–] FleetwoodLinux@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I believe they're saying the stuff in the parentheses are things the US is doing

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ah that makes way more sense

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

@FleetwoodLinux@lemmy.zip thanks for the assist. This is indeed what I meant.

[–] ballgoat@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

The top comment about an inoffensive cartoon vs a terrible person?