[davikkm]

Chinese that are honest will tell you that China’s society is built on appearance whose foundation is lies.

[minnesota_bound]

Apple and google and yahoo, companies that make routers etc have no issue supporting China censorship.

[PapaBear3625]

What China has undertaken is a complete inversion of the early promise of the Internet, and before that a core principle of Western foreign policy: the conviction that liberty is viral. Before the Internet, it was firmly held that exposing authoritarian nations to Western liberty and its tangible benefits through economic and cultural contact would gradually erode the power of dictators and politburos. “Engagement” was the key to spreading freedom around the world, a process that would be greatly accelerated by the Internet and its uncontrollable tidal wave of information.

Social media, AI, etc can also be used to implement totalitarian social control, where every "politically incorrect" opinion can be subject to group criticism.

[indthkr]

China / State-Centric weaponized internet

[Unam Sanctam]

Our own authoritarian left wing elites are doing pretty well destroying the Enlightenment and our liberties on their own.