Better in every metric? Try being Chinese and criticizing the government online, and see what happens to you. That’s a pretty scary metric. The US is fucked right now, but at least there is hope in a democracy, while it lasts. If we ever become a full on totalitarian dystopia like China, it’s over. It makes me sad to think that, with modern surveillance technology, there is probably no way for them to dig themselves out of it at this point.

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[–] Carl@hexbear.net 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I was cautiously optimistic when this got posted here, and from what I can tell the Chinese government hasn't actually made this their policy, this is an allegation being made by an Israeli company in a lawsuit about a Chinese company declining to exercise their option to invest in that Israeli company, so unless Xi or somebody comes out with a big move I now think that this is a whole lot of nothing.

edit: oh I see we're reacting to .world's comment section here, not the story, lmao

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

The "Israeli" company is alleging that the Chinese company said they could not continue with a project because they were instructed not to make further investments in "Israel" IIRC, but all of this is third-hand information at least at this point. If it's true, it's definitely good. I guess we'll see.