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It definitely has high value asking citizens under an authocratic government about said government in an app that is controlled by that government which is also known for disappearances and brutal oppression.
You can just say you have no idea what you're talking about.
China, by no possible definition of autocratic, is not an autocratic government. This is easily verifiable on which ever source of knowledge you like to view.
No, Rednote is not controlled by the government. Can they break chinese law? No. but that's not any more being 'controlled by the government' than lemmy.world is controlled by the US, being a US hosted instance. Given the US has actually publicly started disappearing US citizens and started much more openly killing US citizens that are unwanted 'minorities.'
3a) China has a rule, arrested people do not get to talk to the press while they're arrested. This is to prevent public corruption and swaying public opinion before it can be determined whether a jury is needed and if so jury can be found.
And yes, China has jury trials.
This does not mean China 'disappears' people, unlike certain RFA propagandists tend to say (which is where you got this idea, a CIA propaganda outlet, this is the only place that has ever made this claim). It does mean when you ask Chinese police to let you speak with xyz, they're going to say no.
Once the person has been convicted or released, you get to speak to them, as they can no longer influence potential jury members or judges.
3b) 'Brutal oppression' is pretty insane a term for what can only ever be described as 'stopping literal US-backed terrorists from causing harm.'
The only possible incident you could possibly mean by this was the Xinjiang terror crackdown after terrorists from Turkey radicalized a dozen Muslim Chinese which resulted in the stabbing deaths of more than 40 police and civilians.
Along side this 'brutal oppression' (i.e. tracking everyone that had contact with the terrorists, having militarized border patrols along the entire western border, denying overland travel out from the western border without special court-reviewed permits) was also a massive investment in Xinjiang bringing it to a much higher HDI than Turkey. Hence why further radicalization attempts have failed in China.
Terrorists can only really form from disenfranchised oppressed peoples. By increasing their economic and material conditions, you eliminate terrorism at its roots.
You really took the pill, didn't you?
As in education? Yes. Yes I did.
If a news source posts something so incredibly stupidly, unwaveringly blindly evil and suggests that a country that happens to be your country's rival is doing it, maybe stop. Check out the 'news' source, who created it and its motivations, and then maybe check to see how much logical sense something makes.
The most "evil" people on Earth still operate purely and solely logically. It is their own logic, but they still operate rationally. Non-rational people cannot keep nor really attain power, much less power over 1.6 billion people.
So if something seems completely illogical, then maybe the people reporting it aren't good at reporting (best case scenario) or are trying to get you to believe a narrative and don't care if it makes sense since their target audience is the most gullible (worst case scenario.)
With 1.6 billion people, 1.6 billion sets of eyes who have been trained since birth to overthrow corrupt governments and have been taught explicitly how to recognize corruption... maybe there's some reason why their government has 80+% support out of that group. Maybe there's a reason why one of the most educated populaces on Earth choose to support an 'autocratic' government.
But that just might be crazy propaganda and definitely the people that say Mao ate babies and Dr. Xi Jinping definitely was just a billionaire nepo baby that barged into the people's congress one day and shot anyone that disagreed with his declaration of making himself omniking... maybe those people are right.