Their idol Mao killed approx 160 million humans.

I’m so embarrassed I’ve been using a tankie instance without knowing it for months and only recently realized it

How can they censor what I say? But only on .ml subs, or they can control me account because it’s a .ml account?

Yes, I can’t write about certain things, in a square 😂

How do you know? I’m finding out because I can’t post or comment about certain things 🤫😳🙈

Can I take my account with me? Or spin up a new account and username? And subscribed communities?

So they’re trying to capture mind share of technologists. Nice play, I’m embarrassed.

Why is Lemmy.ml the most popular tankie instance? I’ve been played by Poo bear, interesting. Thanks I will switch.

Not dominated by Chinese, Russian nor Western state actors. That’s all I’m asking for. Where truth isn’t censored.

The propaganda technique used here “cynicism framing.”

What do you recommend instead? I sign up on another instance? Which one?

What you’re describing is false moral equivalence used as a deflective propaganda strategy.

This was true until I realized they’re all over. Anything even remotely pertaining to China is flooded with the Chinese state actors reply guys and bots. In effect, using the protocols strength against itself. Is the protocol itself even able to be banned in China? Are they seriously active on here just to push their bullshit China marketing even harder. They’ve gone all out the last five years.

Entire subs and communities, and servers are Chinese state actors. I wish we could daylight this bullshit, a single serving page with a method for rankings subs, servers with biases?

Real comment ⏫

Chinese reply guy ⬆️

Can you corroborate this with evidence?

Lol right? Dude the Chinese bots and reply guys are so obvious.

Poo bear’s gotta up his game on 🐻

Lemmy.ml is?!? That’s who I signed up for though. I like the privacy stuff. So which instance is politically neutral but technically aligned, pirate party, self hosting etc?

This is Chinese propaganda. Techniques used in the article and comments include:

1. Moral equivalence / false moral equivalence
2. Deflection through comparative framing
3. Counter-accusation
4. Strategic relativization
5. Normative inversion

https://rsf.org/en/country/china China ranks 178/180 on freedom of press.

“The Tiananmen Square massacre refers to the violent suppression of pro-democracy protests in Beijing, China, that occurred from June 3 to June 4, 1989. The Chinese government deployed troops to clear the square, resulting in the deaths of hundreds to thousands of unarmed protesters.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China

Chinese state actors are extremely active on the fediverse. They know they can’t cut off every head of a hydra, so the next next best thing is to flood it with disinformation .

A think-tank estimate puts China’s nationwide internet censorship spending at at least US $13.6 billion per year as of 2020.

An oft-cited historical figure (from 2013 Chinese sources) suggested ~2 million people were involved in censorship and information control efforts at that time.

Beyond the national apparatus, provincial and local governments operate their own monitoring setups, meaning there’s a decentralized mass of censorship functionaries nationwide.

Millions of Chinese are dedicated to destroying truth. No society can flourish in darkness. Poo bear will fail, although, in the short term they can propagandized the world with disinformation with successes in different areas. Humanity is truth. Without truth, there can be no humanity.