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The firewall was created to foster and protect China’s fledgling digital infrastructure and data sovereignty. Many countries regulate foreign platforms and data flows. China built its own ecosystem instead of depending on foreign companies. We have seen what happens when foreign platforms operate without local oversight: Facebook facilitating genocide in Myanmar, coordinated anti-vax disinformation campaigns in Southeast Asia, algorithm-driven radicalization. The firewall makes those kinds of external influence operations harder or close to impossible to run at scale. I support it and so do many others as the alternative is plain to see. Also everyone has a VPN we're not living in ignorance it is in fact people like yourself who are massively ignorant about us and our country.
The firewall again isn't a surveillance tool it's a blacklist that protects us from the very clear worse option which is a US controlled digital infrastructure. Also you vacationing here really doesn't do much to assuage ignorance. Plenty of EuroAmerikans vacation across developing countries and are still massively ignorant on how they actually functions. I'd go a step further and say most EuroAmerikans don't even know how their own country really functions as "lived experience" is only a small part of the puzzle.
I'm assuming the choice of the word continuously is an artefact from an LLM considering end to end encryption was only brought up once. Also I very clearly didn't avoid talking about it I simply pointed out that the most common ones such as WhatsApp are mostly a mix of insecure software and lies, also are largely irrelevant considering the NSA backdoors on every piece of deployed tech in the western hemisphere
LLM? No, continuously was a deliberate choice. I don't see what's wrong with it.
I'm using the example of end to end encryption to show how online surveillance there is measurably worse.
Your assertion was that online surveillance there is the same as elsewhere. That's ridiculous. That's the starting point and it's what I'm sticking to. Lack of E2E is just such an obvious example of how it's worse.
You're making assumptions about back doors in all Western tech. China has them.
I can use any E2E encrypted platform I choose. You can't use any. That's worse.
It's not an assumption it's proven real
PRISM: Allowed the NSA to access data from major tech companies, including emails, documents, and photos.
XKeyscore: Enables the NSA to analyze global internet data, making it easy to track individuals' online activities.
Tempora: The UK’s GCHQ tapped fiber-optic cables to collect vast amounts of data, sharing it with the NSA.
Boundless Informant: A data visualization tool that documented the NSA's global data collection effort.
All revealed by snowden. If you think that they stopped any of this or this was all they were doing you are so incredibly naive it's amazing you lived past 12.
All I can say is cope.
I have no issues with people using llms to help them format and formulate responses into coherent comments I just think it's important to read over the output carefully hence I responded to the points while still pointing out it made some common llm errors that he must not have noticed. Why are you so aggressive?
Because I didn't make any LLM errors. I didn't use an LLM and every post I've made in this thread fits my posting style exactly.
If you say so
I don't work for the government. I do however have friends who are party members (shouldn't be surprising considering slightly over 1/14 people are) and I did work alongside the CPPCC for a period and many of my classmates from my master's in Marxist theory were doing it to work towards civil servant positions. Even besides all that I interact with my local party office fairly regularly to provide feedback as do many others.
You can check the modlog or DM the mods and ask I'm not a mod I also didn't report them so your guess is as good as mine.
I very clearly didn't dismiss any of his points I just pointed out that continuously didn't make sense considering we only brought encryption up once prior to this comment and I had responded to it at that time I didn't dodge I also then responded to the point at hand again anyway so idk why you're lashing out. I didn't dismiss him.
This is just typical chauvinist dehumanising bullshit. "Anyone who doesn't accept the western line on China is a bot or a paid shill" you should probably do some introspection on why you react so violently to a Chinese person providing a more accurate view of their country.
Check the modlog, we can still see the comments if we want to, and they state the reasons for removal there.
Most of the time something gets removed because of bigotry or being an asshole (I've seen people the mods agree with also have their comments removed when being too inflammatory, just so you know).
The LLM accusation was after a rebuttal, and then followed by another point, not an excuse to avoid engagement. You can't be for real.
Holy shit the cope lol
You people have fully become the cold war boomers that everyone made fun of in the 90s. If someone has anything positive or informative to say about ZE DESIGNATED ENEMY, you immediately freak out and start calling them a spy. It's such 12 year old behavior, the defense of a wounded imperial ego.