My very Reddit-influenced impressions about China circa 2016 (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by doublepepperoni@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Every building is a shoddily built hazardous death trap prone to collapsing at any moment
Food and consumer products are full of toxic chemicals because no one cares
Slavelike working conditions, insane working hours, suicide nets at factories
Every citizen is spied on constantly, one wrong thought means they will be dragged off in the middle of the night by the secret police
Arbitrary and nonsensical censorship of the media, to quote Mike from RLM on why Ghostbusters 2016 wasn't available in China "Your Communist government thinks the movie is witchcraft"
LGBT people oppressed
No regard for the environment, pollution everywhere, pristine nature destroyed to build empty ghost cities for no reason
A dystopian inhumane culture where everyone hates each other and has no regard for human life. There were so many Reddit stories about how in China drivers double back to kill pedestrians they hit so they won't be held criminally liable or because people faking accidents for lawsuits is so common. Also people step over people having medical emergencies on the street for the same reasons
Racist and jingoistic

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[-] The_Walkening@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

As I understand it a big driver of "censoring" Western media/internet is because of market protectionism.

Also there's good reason to partition off China's internet beyond protectionism - if the West was exposed to the opinions of Chinese citizens regularly, the USA would claim that Beijing has a millions-strong army of 'cyber warriors' spreading 'Communist propaganda' when it's just people in China voicing and defending their opinion that they think the government's pretty good/don't themselves have any issues with it.