GMac

Alas, I don't live in a world where context is restricted by what is convenient for your point of view.
Thanks for the lazy ad hominem response though.

I agree. New user introduction is very poor. Took me ages just to choose an instance - and that was in no small part because I'm here not only to escape the enshittified chokepoint capitalism of american big tech, but also because I'm utterly sick of the domination of US centric points of view and censorship. Even though i know communities are not instance locked, I wanted an instance that is not likely to be managed in the same way. Time will tell if I chose well or poorly

Let's just substitute China for America and see how that reads...

'There is this time now when people, perhaps rather conveniently in Europe and indeed elsewhere, might be ignoring that America's economy has massively been running on slave-like labour for long period now. I think these and other human rights violations in America aren't gone. I think America has very strong dictatorial policies, censorship, and surveillance capabilities.'

I don't think anything in that revised text is completely wrong.
The inadequacies of US human rights and employment rights do impact to the point of forcing many into fearful servitude as a form of slave labour, even when they aren't just quietly paying slave wages for manufacture in other countries anyway.

I'm not saying you are wrong about China, but a critique of anyone pursuing 'partnership' with China while not even mentioning equivalent criticisms of the current dominant trade partner discredits the complaint. If anything trade with china is a side grade, but probably not a downgrade.