In this video, two people try to talk about China in comparison to the growing US internet censorship apparatus and can't figure out what the difference is between China and the US's policies.

Any reasonable or accurate point they make in this video is absolutely fucking obliterated by some brain-dead thought-terminating cliche.

Our Glorious Regulations, Their Authoritarian Censorship Regime.

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[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

two words: party discipline. none of our personal approaches to what we are principled on can function with the consistency demanded of building a successful socialist revolution that is capable of fighting off bourgeois ideologies. taylor is incredibly personally disciplined in her approach to the politics of disease as an immunocompromised person existing in a ~~post-~~covid world that is unflinching in the masses it is willing to sacrifice. she is also utterly incapable of combatting her liberalism on this particular matter, specifically because they do not understand the importance of party discipline in guiding the approach in China and why it is qualitatively different from what the same policies would look like here in the imperial core.

don't miss the headline here though commenters, she has fallen into the classic liberal racist trap of "what are we, a bunch of asians?"

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

don't miss the headline here though commenters, she has fallen into the classic liberal racist trap of "what are we, a bunch of asians?"

That is 100% of the vibe of the video, for sure. There are some points in this video where her guest frames America and China as two extremes at either end and implies that there is a reasonable middle ground somewhere (Europe). Which is pretty funny. It was fun to hear him say, "Some of that is [...] maybe positive in terms of [...] encouraging more competition. [I]t'd be great if if there was European equivalents of a lot of these US services..." after outlining how China's "Great Firewall" created space for domestic tech services to develop.

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

there's a real failure to imagine governance that contends with the internet and privacy responsibly.